Our Happy Acres

It’s hard to believe it’s already May! This spring is going by too fast. It will be hot and humid here all too soon. I want to enjoy our normally brief spring weather while it lasts.
We did get much needed rain this week (over 4 inches), and the veggies certainly loved it. The asparagus really [...]

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A good garden fork is a thing to behold. I got this one a few years back after I had broken the ash handle on my last fork. This time I opted for fiberglass. Nothing like an unbreakable handle for some serious forking!

Mine is not quite as new or shiny as Dan’s fork he got [...]

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Gardening here is in a state of flux. Cool season crops are maturing, even while I start to get the warm weather loving plants in the ground. It’s a busy time of year but I love it.
I’m still sitting on nearly 1000 tomato, pepper and eggplant seedlings. I’ve got a few planted myself, and given [...]

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It seems I have had little time for blogging this month, which is not surprising to me. April is usually a busy month here at Happy Acres.
For one thing, the greenhouse and plant racks are bursting at the seams with seedlings, divisions and transplants. I counted 39 flats today, and with an average of 50 [...]

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This week marked the first of the asparagus harvest. It was only two spears, but we were pretty excited nonetheless. We are always eager for the start of asparagus season, since it is the first of our seasonal fruits and vegetables to appear.

More are popping up already. This is our third year after planting, and [...]

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I took a walk around the gardens this week to take some photos and see how things are coming along this spring. I think it’s nice to document the progress everything is making, and the photos come in handy later on when dates and details get fuzzy.
The window boxes I planted early in March have [...]

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