First Batch of Seeds - Taking off!

A few pictures of the week.
Finally I feel like we are able to start doing some real farm activites around here!

Preparing the front 1/4 acre - Composted Horse Manure. Thank godness for tractors.

First batch of organic seedling mix, ready to go!

2 heat mats to speed up the seeds sprouting

The potting bench dumpling made me, from cabinets! Best bench on wheels. great for storing all the supplies. Thanks dumpling!!!!

Potting bench in use! In process of planting 120 sweet peas.

The seeds of the sweet peas have to be nicked first. This speeds up the germination process since they have such a tough thick seed coat. Nicking them first allows the water to penetrate into the seed much quicker.

Planted Thrusday, Sprouting by Saturday! Thanks to the magic of the heat mats.

What was planted:

80 Lemon Basils

80 Rudbeckia Prarie Sun

80 Rudbeckia Indian Summer

80 Rudbeckia Cherry Red

80 Ammi - Green Mist

By Sunday the lemon basils had their first leaves coming up already!

First Batch being tucked in for the night!

Lots of compost on the way to going to be spread in the vegetable garden.

This was all moved into the veggie garden in about 2 hours.

First Bee of the season, a few things going into bloom now. of course mostly weeds.
Sunny Delight. The best kitty in the world. Loves to follow everyone around just to hang out!

dumpling found the perfect place for the beehive - Great windbreak and gets the morning sun to get the bees up early