The apricots are blooming. So I’m asking everyone to send this intention to the universe – at least for Gunn Creek Farm: NO MORE FROST! If the weather holds, we’ll have fruit this year. These trees were a Rutgers Ag. test that has been discontinued because the trees aren’t hardy enough for our climate. If we have gentle weather after they bloom we get fruit… if not, we don’t. So let’ hope it stays above freezing from now on.
I’m trying to get this in before I go rescue the cold and wet horses.
(Think Sundance is ready?)
Mark and Newt got almost all the peach trees pruned. We just have the saturns in the lower field to trim. Newt is such a joy with his energy and excitement about helping out (Thanks Newt – there are days you motivate us more than you know!) He has picked out the perfect tree to place a memorial under for our friend Andy who loved the orchard… More on that as it unfolds.
Greenhouse is at ‘Lilly Pond’ capacity… as full as we can get it until it’s time to transplant and I still get a thrill out of the first signs of germination. Arugula is up. Talk about instant gratification. We planted on Sunday.
(Trust me, this gets much more visually exciting in a couple of weeks.)
Thanks to Luke the big tractor runs. 
Mark bush hogged an old row of blackberries and the raspberries. Ever the opportunist for a warm spot, Callie made herself comfortable waiting for our next adventure. More on that soon… Until then, the only sad news is that our bees didn’t make it. I was hopeful but I was seeing robber bees at the hive. There is honey left over and since we don’t appear to have disease in the hive, they can have at it.
What’s up next week? If it gets warm Asparagus, otherwise peach blossoms. Can’t wait!
We got the fences mended last weekend – only to have a wind storm tear more down Monday morning…
