What’s up in the garden

Believe it or not, it’s the time of the year where we’ve completed our crop rotation plans, propagation plan and seed and supplies inventory and orders, and started winter sowing and propagating indoors trays of purple cabbage and asparagus, rainbow Swiss chard, leeks, herbs, and other perennials for the garden and annual Mother’s Day weekend plant sale-whew!!! We’re even waking up a few of our sleeping beauty dahlias in cold storage and their “eyes” are looking good and already starting to sprout;). We are monitoring the soil temperature daily now, waiting patiently for the soil to warm up; so we can start direct seeding lettuce, spinach, carrots, beets, radishes and a few other cold hardy crops.

We’ve enjoyed our winter rest from the farm and managed to fill a few quiet moments dreaming and thinking about the coming season.

We’re in the community now, teaching a series of four gardening classes being held in the garden and the Middleton Public Library . We’ve already finished up with Planning Your Garden and Growing a Vegetable Garden - Digging Deeper in January/February and starting in March/April, we will be teaching Propagating Perennials and Growing a Cut Flower Garden.

The new growing season is here and we are “busy as bees” in the hive.

“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
May Sarton, 1912-1995, American poet, novelist, and memoirist