Tuesday, April 28, 2009

This is what vegetable gridlock looks like.

As soon as I say the weather is cooperating, it doesn't. Of course. All this rain -- over three inches so far -- is keeping us out of the fields. Not that we can't work in the rain. We'll stay out so long as there isn't lightning, and sometimes even then. But if the fields are too wet, moving tractors and wagons and feet through them only compacts the soil. So we're waiting for the fields to dry out some. And waiting.

To make room in the greenhouse for more seeding, we've been moving seedlings that are ready for transplanting out onto the wagons. Well, all the wagons are all full now, and the greenhouse is still filled wall to wall. Muck fields drain pretty quickly, though, and today was a dry and sunny day, so there's a good chance we'll but putting a lot of things in the ground tomorrow. If the weather cooperates.