Springing into action on the farm

Spring has sprung on the farm this year with a gorgeous few days of weather.

The sunny days with temperatures in the low 70s have been so nice to be out on the farm and the plants have been enjoying it.

Everything is springing into action on the farm with lots more work to do preparing areas to be planted in the coming weeks, transplanting more crops and keeping the weeds under control.

The pile of 24 tons of compost we got last November has been significantly reduced with around half of it being spread on the fields so far. We have lots more to spread for our summer crops and soon we will see its impact once the spring planted crops are starting to be closer to harvest.

We are back at the Wednesday Davis Farmers Market today in Central Park. It is from 3-6 pm through the end of April and then 4-8 pm from May-September during Picnic in the Park.

Our first seeds we sowed in the field in 2024 are being harvested starting today and they are some gorgeous round red radishes. They are not too hot as it has been cooler and the spiciness comes with hot temperatures.

The tomatoes look good after the windy few days last week. The high winds were forecasted to come in gusts but it felt like it was more constant especially on Friday while we were harvesting for the farmers market.

Being protected under the row cover was the only way the tomatoes were able to not be stressed that much after the winds. It kept most of the wind off of them and only a few plants got damaged a lot.

Hopefully they will start growing a lot with these calm sunny days we are having even though the temperatures are dropping a little bit. Fortunately the low for each day is still in the 40s while the high temperature is what is changing.

We’ll be planting our second succession of tomatoes in the next week, which has a few more varieties than the early planting.

Everything in the greenhouse has been growing much faster as they have gotten more leaves and the temperatures has warmed up. The greenhouse gets much warmer even when it has lots of airflow which is okay since most of what we have in there is summer crops except for the last two trays of brassicas and lots of lettuce.

We still have to seed and transplant a lot of lettuce but otherwise all of our spring crops are practically in the ground. Some more radishes have to get planted since they grow so quickly and we don’t want to have too many all at once.