Alright folks, it has been a few busy days around here with nary an update. So here are a few pictures about what has been happening on the permaculture front.

First, it was quite the sunny and warm spring day the other day (oh the memories). Temps in the 60’s, warm enough for traipsing around the yard. Here are is a crocus with a bug friend inside. The first blossoms of Spring!

Next up, Aine was helping me and laughing at my explorations (or was she yawning?):

I planted another tray of seeds. Tray “B” has in Rows I-IV: Culinary Cumin. Though it is an annual, I will be keeping them in the herb garden as well as sharing any extras with my community. Let me know! 🙂

Rows V-XII: SPINACH! So excited to start a round of indoor spinach. In hindsight, I would have married the spinach and ovation mix in the same tray so they would have a similar growing cycle.

In this pic, the tray on the left is the new one, covered to keep moisture and warmth in, and the right, the new LED setup for the seedlings! Thanks to Q for his help putting the hanging structure together.

Now for some close-ups.

The ovation mix seedlings are getting greener under the lamp. Since they popped up after only a couple days, they had just a little afternoon light (about 5 hours) per day so they started to get a little spindly. But they are getting plenty of light for the past 2 days. Yay!

And last but not least, as of Day 7, tomato seedlings! Woot!

Thanks for being patient with my updates. I will have more to come for sure!

Next steps are to start laying down clover in the 18 older beds to keep weeds down til I am ready for planting and setting up the herb garden and hugulkultur! There is a HUGE fell pine tree that was torn down after a big wind storm in I think January. That needs to be cut into pieces and put into place (once the digging has begun).

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