April Gardening

Normally this time of year we would already be in the gardens, but there is still snow everywhere. Here's April's account of gardening, and some side projects at the homestead.

April 1st - nasty snow storm. Not a very nice joke, mother nature!

April 3rd - some of the cabbages are up. Started 2 trays of herbs - too many to list. Put 1 tomato plant in grow bed to see if it will survive the nights.

Daffodils are very hardy - yesterday they were under a foot of snow!

It's finally starting to warm up some!

April 9 - FINALLY I got everything moved into the outdoor greenhouse - my sun room was getting a little crazy.

April 10 - the swallows returned, as well as the phoebes. Spring is here - just waiting for things to dry up outside!

April 17 - we have a farm pond!

It took Dad about 6 hrs. to dig with the excavator. It is 8 ft. deep at the far end. The pond is in the "baker lot" (really the 5 acre lot, but one of the kids when they were little called it that and it has stuck). We dammed up the stream on the other side of the entrance, and dug the pond deeper on the other side. The kids had the canoe in last night. We'll see if it lasts all summer. We have hopes to use it for irrigation for the garden, as well as a place to cool off after weeding HEHE

April 30 -finished pruning the orchard, and sprayed with dormant oil.