This week in the greenhouse

We are still planting Joe's onions. Many more to go. These are onions just starting to come up.
They may look funny to you but they come up bent in half and then straighten. Hard to believe that they will end up baseball size.

Students from the Vermont Youth Conservation Corp are helping us this week. They will assist us in planting more of the onions and will help to erect a new greenhouse that Joe is picking up in Massachusetts this week. The students are very helpful at this time of year. They will usually visit us again during the summer to help with weeding and again in the fall to help with the harvest. The VYCC also is helping other local farms and will work on other local conservation projects. We really appreciate their help.

We are still accepting applications for the 2010 growing season. We are offering both 16 and 24 week shares. Download an application today!

This Week in the Greenhouse

Joe and Jay have been very busy in the green house this week. Pansies were delivered last week and needed to be transplanted. It's amazing how much growth there is in just one week. The picture here shows the pansies that arrived last week (on the left) compared to the pansies that arrived yesterday. The pansies arrive from the grower in a tray that has 512 cells/plants. These are then transplanted into 6 paks that will be available for purchase in mid-May.

Another large project this week is for Joe. He ran out of onions this winter. OH NO! This year he is planting 300,000 seeds. That's about 708 trays of onions to be transplanted on about 1 acre. We all hope that he doesn't run out this year.

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Wow!! How about that snow? At least 10 inches and it's still falling.

It's very warm in the germination room and this week Anne and Jay are busy grafting tomatoes.

Why do we graft? We do this so that we have the best of our varieties.

These grafts are with plant stock that was started a bout 3 weeks ago. We use Maxifort and Beaufort tomatoes as the bottom, to give a vigorous growth and disease resistance to the top. We use the ever popular Buffalo tomato as the top.

We hope to have these grafted plants in the greenhouse in the ground in about 3 weeks, and tomatoes around the end of May.

We have also started cucumbers to be planted in their own greenhouse and parsley to be planted in the fields when the snow melts.

Don't forget to sign up for this summer's CSA.