It turns out that seeing the growth of what we plant really makes us happy, there is a feeling that is difficult to express but is understood by ourselves, not as big as what @brixbounty did, but implementing what he did was very enjoyable

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Need to hook up the drivers and workers who make it all possible… Received 7 pallets of amendments this morning (about half our ‘26 order). They were here just before 9AM Had already been to Maine & back today; he started his day at 2:30AM (presumably to avoid Boston traffic and such).

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Return to much more typical spring weather for the South Coast. Doubt we see a string of heat like last week’s gift til after Mother’s Day. https://x.com/tuckerweather/status/2046985153470251292?s=46&t=TVy9rDl3UkuxmVj4e18bO

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Golden Hour Zoom… though macro final shot kinda got washed out. Fieldhouse tomatoes planted 4.09 and cultivated for the first time today, 4.21. We hit 29 degrees last night in this house. Was 40 under double layer of row cover. Tomatoes & Cukes handled cool night #2 quite fine. Flowers starting to make an early appearance- tbd if we prune first couple sets to allow plant to continue to build frame with undivided attention.

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Officially crossed the line where office work gets done late evening vs daylight… Clearwater lettuce from this morning’s cut. Texture can offer a lot of insight when you are considering quality. Our premise: thicker leaves = better sunlight photosynthetic capture due to larger volume in mesophyll allowing for greater population of chloroplasts. increases need for nutrient highway to be developed by the plants, see vein structure… we address iron to ensure thickness potential is there. Iron is less available in dry, aerated soils (we typically don’t irrigate - though these are from a fieldhouse where we run drip cause they never get rainfall. Soil biology & plant rhizosphere can help make iron more available under adverse conditions, yet we like to add a bit of soluble iron sulfate in our mineral mix to ensure there is a new partner at the dance - soils typically have heaps of iron, yet not so much available unless they get water logged etc. Anyway, still miss bolsachica oakleaf, yet Clearwater performs well enough.

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“Chive Collectors” New M.I.A. Finds mixed reviews from fans & critics… As Sunday morning harvest music it fit rather well. Damp morning; harvesting mostly from the field houses, except a brief excursion to the fields for chives. https://open.spotify.com/track/5zUhUdYy0sYSBzrqYF2smJ?si=XKOLSepoQkK2eo98QoZoiw https://open.spotify.com/track/7oRbg8cyVUQPohkAPVQy7D?si=AgRxUGcwR2e_hP6ScXa47w https://open.spotify.com/track/0vvrWWiNc5NtaYE1mS3DuG?si=ufVf6pmTRP6_MoxRpnbRGA

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Ready for harvest season…

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Checking on last week’s tomato transplants this afternoon. First round of blossoms are being set on the most eager varieties. Been a great week for establishment and growth with abundant heat & sunshine. Set out first round of cukes in a fieldhouse too. They are now also cozy under hoops and covers. Cooler weather on the way will give the cucumbers a stress test.

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Forgot to share these saplings Kind of busy irl work Any guess, which seeds are these ?

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We kicked off planting season in a rather glorious way. Hit 75 here on the Southcoast, and tilled soils were an impressive 60+ degrees late afternoon. Cabbage, kale, lettuce heads, mix, arugula, choi, fennel, dandelion, chard, and parsley on the ground this afternoon. Spinach & onions on tap for tomorrow. This is Farao cabbage soaking in the end of the day rays. A few sticky traps out to capture flies; we’ll row cover everything tomorrow to boost their growth with cooler weather returning next week. Also killed a mosquito, not sure what random microclimate it was emerging from, cause April 14th is crazy…

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Big fan of getting to visit our suppliers in person. We are lucky to only be a 40 min drive away from the company where we get a majority of our soil amendments and supplies. Always feels good to connect in person. Make a quick trip every spring to place our order, and come back to the farm with a few bags to hold us over until they make our delivery. When we started working with them they were primarily set up to work with the cranberry growers, and we were receiving pallets from a couple of places in Pennsylvania. 15 years later they’re serving all of New England, including a bunch of organic producers and can track down pretty much all we need.

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Big day for during debuts today. First bumble of the season, and shortly after a visit from a hover fly in the prop house while we were seeding. Even posed for a few shots…

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Heaps of tractor work today We finally replaced our old flail mower (overdue after 13 years of heavy use). New mower arrived last week and today it made its debut in the fields. Cleaned up heaps of residue from last season, probably covered a third of our acreage. Then did some tillage (first picture) to start working ground for planting later this month. The beds we’ll plant this week’s, I worked late last fall, so we would have a spot of low residue, easy to warm up and dry, soils for spring planting. Beautiful day, and got to enjoy the ncaa hockey championship on the headphones while finishing the day. Rare for us to put 6 hours + on the engine in one day. We’ve only put 400 hours on this tractor in 6 years, though for 5 of those it didn’t have to do any mowing. Tractor hours don’t necessarily equal time hours. One hour doesn’t equal one hour, it depends on the RPMs for some meters, including ours. Feels good to get going on the fieldwork ahead of fine spring weather.

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Warmth headed our way next week; so reckon we’ll pick up pace transplanting. This is the “overflow” of starts, moved into one of the fieldhouses where we planted tomatoes yesterday. The beds under the tables should be cucumbers by the end of next week and these flats will be planted in a field. Tomatoes pictured this morning handled last night’s chill well (it was 28 degrees outdoors).

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We decided to set out our early tomatoes into one of the fieldhouses today. These are young transplants, would be too tender if they were going into the field in the spring; yet we’ve always had good experiences transplanting young tomatoes if they are actively growing. So decided we might as well give them room to grow. Tucked under two layers of row cover for the chilly night These were seeded in early March and are just about a month old.

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