High farmer anxiety withstanding, two hoop house lettuce rows will produce their first cutting this week, seven weeks since seeding and two weeks late. With so many variables contending in the nature of market growing, I only recommend it to those prepared to have their hearts broken on daily basis. So much can go wrong. Nimble wits and keeping faith steady the venture. A great addition to the salad mix will make it's debut this week in response to the torpid lettuce- pea tendrills. Began pre-soaking the seeds overnight and sowed them thickly in the green house benches. They will be ready for cutting in twelve days and it seems from my observations that they will take another cutting from the same planting which will save a lot of prep-work and seed.
Transplanted mixed cherry and grape tomatoes in greenhouse #1 which I started from seed Apr. 7th- right on schedule. Two rows trained straight up to eight feet will start yielding the beginning of Aug. through Oct. Tomato subscription and home delivery will start week of Aug 11th if all goes well for ten weeks.
Up date on chicks. After two weeks they have their tail feathers and are fledglings. Some even have feathery feet. They are staying with my niece Katarina, who just turned nine, with mother hen Lucy to be thoroughly domesticated by all the other girls in the neighborhood.
News on the Rocky Hill School Center for Sustainability. The schools program director e-mailed me that he had really tried advocating Baby Greens move to the schools campus but had run into a wall over funding. I continue to look for farmland to purchase near our home in Pawtuxet maybe in Western Cranston. Our predicament at our current site is precarious as we continue to be a tenant at will.
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