It's the week we've all been waiting for!! Or at least the week I'VE been waiting for, as we're finally going to get to plant a few things outside of the hoophouse. According to our planting schedule, the cabbage, kale, and kohlrabi should have been in the ground two weeks ago, but as you've seen, it's just been too wet.
It's still too wet in the back strip where we intended to plant them (that's the area where you laid mulch last week). I attempted to work up a few beds back there today and found standing water under the mulch:
The water table has risen so high that it's actually coming up to the surface under the beds. So, we're going to have to re-configure our carefully wrought plans at the last minute in order to contend with this reality. We'll be transplanting the brassicas into the somewhat drier beds behind my house rather than into the back strip and John will be discing up some land on his property tomorrow morning in the hopes that we can shift some of the crops that were supposed to go into those beds over to his place.
So that's the plan for class this week--you'll be broad-forking the beds, raking them out, working in some fertilizer, and tucking our little plants into the ground. I'm really looking forward to seeing some green out there in the garden area!
Also, I found my first tick today, so be forewarned that you might bring home some unwelcome hitchhikers--if you feel the need to use tick repellent you might want to bring some with you.
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