The Wily Carrot

Mid-May update

The greenhouse is done! Thanik goodness! Tomatoes and peppers are planted in it and there is basil and bok choy underneath the bigger crops. They have shallow roots so I don't think they'll bother the tomatoes and peppers. There's also some early zuchinni in the back.

Arugula, basil, and lettuce are almost ready.

Baby purple bok choy growing underneath the tomatoes in the greenhouse.

Spring lettuce!

The deer fence is mostly done, we just need to tighten it to a top wire. So far it seems good enough to keep the deer out. We still need to build a gat for it, we'll see if that happens this year.

Taters are coming up, almost two inches, and I've rehilled them. Just transplanted first round of broccoli and cabbage and chard and kale. Kale didn't make it through the wind and hail storms. Beets and carrots coming up and just planted parsley and peas.

Part of the irrigation system - where water from the "ditch" comes out from below ground and into the system.
Arugula with the irrigation tube

More plantings and greenhouses growing!

The first group planting is done! We planted beets, carrots (hence the name), spinach, lettuce, scallions, and cilantro. They're all under row cover because its still freezing at night. And the ditch hasn't turned on, so we're irrigating using a 125 gallon water tank which is filled in town.

The spinach and lettuce came up on Monday!! Super exciting!!

We're trying to teach Bodhi to hunt the pocket gophers that are infiltrating the potato fields. No luck yet.

Finishing up the greenhouse. Hope to put the plastic on this weekend and put the tomatoes and peppers in on Tuesday May 10th when the ditch gets turned on. . Have had crazy non-stop wind up to 50 mph and snow and hail all last week, making it hard to work. But this week has been nice.