The Seedlings Are Coming! The Seedlings Are Coming!
It is the time of the year when we’re busy starting all those seedlings for your home garden. The first basil varieties (tall, mini, Genovese, Italian, red, etc.) are already popping up, should be available in April. The flat and curly parsley have a head start, with tomato, pepper and eggplant seeds scheduled to hit the potting soil in late March. Other garden vegetable seedlings to follow: (cukes, melons, summer squash, etc.).
Some kitchen herbs were started in January to give folks a taste of Spring in the dark of Winter. Those have been available at the Natural Living Center in Bangor for several weeks. With luck, the Winter plantings will be used up just in time for the Spring seedlings to take their place on the display rack.
As for our other major farm activity —
The Berries Are Coming! (But not any time soon)
Thank you again, all you berry pickers, for a successful blueberry, blackberry, and black raspberry year last summer.
Now that the snow is gone, our outside work begins. Pruning, fertilizing, weeding and mulching all the blueberry and blackberry rows, and trying to revive a few of our red raspberry rows.
And once the grass starts growing, hours and hours of contemplative mowing (with our new ELECTRIC riding lawn mower!) to keep the place neat and tidy.