Walkers Fresh Veggies

Winter just is relentless here in Southwestern lower Michigan this year!  I am sure it is much the same in much of the country.  Our hoop houses are still buried and it looks like they may be for another couple of weeks. We have decided to have a friend of ours that operates a larger greenhouse start our seedlings for us.  They will be about two or three weeks old when we bring them home in 512 cell plug trays to transplant into our 72 cell flats.  We think by the second week of April it might be safe to plan for our hoop houses to be repaired and ready to receive plants.  This gives the plants until May 15 to May 25 to be ready to transplant into the fields.  I am hoping it will be dry enough by then to work ground and plant! (and warm enough for plants to grow!)  There are always challenges every year in growing veggies and it seams no two years are ever the same. What really counts is how well you roll with the punches and work to counteract the challenges as they appear.  It is what makes farming interesting (the glass half full mentality --better yet the glass is ALWAYS full of something -- even though that something might just be air).