Farm, March 26, 2009

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"M"'s Little Bull - freshly "hatched"
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Proud Mom
shows
 Little M
to doting
Aunts, Lilly & Kate
(who are also "expecting" soon...)
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Newly transplanted
Swiss Chard
and Beets
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Its finally dry
enough for Neil
to work up the
beds in the
Big Big Garden
(Here's the "before")
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Carmen setting
new transplants
on Monday
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Outside the Big greenhouse - looking
in at all the
broccoli
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Inside view
of broccoli
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Lots of seedlings yet -waiting in the Greenhouse
to be transplanted
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Peas looking nice
(shot taken Monday before the rains)
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Onions and Leeks
(Once the sets
are a little bigger
we'll "set" them
out in rows)
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Greens that have been moved outside
in the sun and wind to start the Hardening off process
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These are the Cabbages we planted under cover last week. They are looking great!
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Same with the lettuces planted under cover last week.
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"M" brought her
Baby Boy up to the barn the very next day to show him off to us.
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Is he sweet
or what?
Aunt Lilly (the white heifer and & Kate
who was beyond the camera view - dote and dote on the little guy - keeping him licked clean as a whistled. Between them and his Mom - its a wonder he has any fur LEFT. 
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The Big Big Garden beds - Before Neil
worked them.
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Here they are  Neil
after - all fluffy and
gorgeous...
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This is the little stray doggie who has taken up with us
here on the farm.
I was tucking the seedlings in for the night in the little greenhouse.  Its was so cold and rainy - and he loves to slip in behind me to sit next to the heat lamps while I'm working.
(Does he have my number or what?)
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Carmen and Marizal in the Big Greenhouse
potting up tomatoes
March 26, 2009
(Brrr...)
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Cherokee Purple
tomato seedlings, fresh out of the
germination room - waiting to be put into their own
individual pots.