By Andrew Haupt
The clouds threatened all day and broke as soon as I went outside to work in the afternoon, and it drizzled through the night. All told we got around half an inch of rain, for which I’m especially grateful given our planting binge this week.
I scrambled to get peas in the ground before it started coming down (a couple weeks later than intended), planting two beds with Green Arrow and one little row with Sugar Magnolia.
Several of the peppers in soil blocks have broken free of their seedcoat, and I’m fired up. I’ve conditioned myself to the fact that nothing ever works the first time you do it on the homestead — I guess there’s plenty more that could go wrong before these guys go in the ground, but the simple fact that they germinated is a huge relief.
