Good Evening Everyone,
It’s Thursday evening again. The week went by incredibly fast. The weather finally improved, most of the week was spent planting thousands and thousands of seedlings. There are still quite a few thousand more, but we made a dent and that was vital. Field planting is really when we start growing a  high volume. We planted summer squash, brassicas, Swiss chard, cabbage, celery, celeriac, loads of flowers, all of the dahlias and some of the onions. Unfortunately we ran out of time. Today and tomorrow are spent mostly picking, packing and baking and getting ready for the saturday markets.
I really hope next week the weather allows us to keep on going and finally get almost caught up.  We still have winter squash, onions and potatoes to plant. And of course tomatoes, peppers and eggplants are still not planted. The delay in those is mainly because we decided to move the location of the hoophouses we use for the nightshades. First of all, it is a good idea not to plant the same stuff in the same location year after year. Although the claim is that tomatoes do even better if they are grown in the same location every year. Secondly, the location of those hoop houses were getting a bit too shady. Thus the decision was made to move them. 
I was reading in the news that this spring’s cool weather has caused a lot of delays and that strawberries, cherries, peaches are all going to be at least 2 weeks late. I can personally vouch that strawberries are 2-3 weeks late. 
I managed to pick a few strawberries today, maybe I will have a few to sell too. We should have lots for the Father’s Day weekend. Of course once we have strawberries, picking them takes an enormous amount of time, and everything else slows down. Last year June ended up being rainy and strawberries had some form of disease that affected the quality of the fruit.
That’s why last year we made the decision to limit the amount of strawberries we will grow. 
On the other  hand, this year my project is going to be growing or at least trying to grow blueberries and fall raspberries in pots. I have never tried to grow blueberries before mainly because we have alkaline soil. However, it is easy to control acidity in pot growing or so I have been told. 
Let’s talk about what is coming to the markets; there are greens, some head lettuce, herbs, Hakurei turnips, kohlrabi, fennel, Swiss chard, lots of asparagus, rhubarb and maybe a few strawberries. And some amazing flowers: giant delphiniums, ranunculus,  pinks, snap dragons, lupins and a few stock flowers. 
The pies are strawberry rhubarb, apple and cherry. I will try to make some galettes if I get a chance.  I know some customers have been patiently waiting for the galettes. 
Saturday looks like a sunny and warm day, I am hoping it will bring out a lot of people.
Hope to see you at one of the markets!
Ayse and Jens
Marvellous Edibles Farm