NEW POST!!!!

Hello bloggers, I know, I know, it has been a very long time sense my last post, and I know I've said that it wouldn't happen again...but, I must say that is has been a busy spring this year. I'm sure that I'm not the only one to feel this way. I haven't even been able to till my garden yet, with farm visits, training requirements, speaking at workshops, hosting workshops, teaching embryology at schools, lining up for the 4-H Chicken Club/Show, calving on the farm, etc..., I just haven't had the time to spend getting my own garden planted. Hopefully I will be able to get into the garden soon. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that my family is going to enlarge by one sometime around the 1st of August. How exciting. Well, enough rambling on, now to important things. Soil temperatures are up and it is time to get gardens well underway, ground should be ready, soil tests completed, fertilizer and lime applied, and ground prepared for planting. Now is the time for planting crops you are starting from seed! Transplants can wait for a little longer but, you should be sourcing out your plants already. Most garden seed needs soil temperatures above 55 degrees F for proper germination and some seed (such as corn) need soil temps above 65 degrees, we are now above or at that mark. So get your seed out and start planting! As for transplants, we still have a slight chance of seeing frost, even heavy frost in our area, especially in the higher elevations, so keeping a close eye on the forecast, and having frost protection in place will be critical to a successful growing season. If you can wait another 10 days, until May 21st, we should be out of our frost/freeze period and it should be safe to plant all transplants without worrying about protecting those young tender plants. Hopefully, I will be able to post regularly throughout the year and keep up to date information available for you.

Happy Gardening.