Natural Excellence Farm and Gardens

 Today was a beautiful, sunny, February day. It was cold but can't complain for the days getting longer.

We opened the man doors on our high tunnel to let out some of the moisture. With all the bright sunshine it was like a rain forest inside, steamed up my sunglasses straight away.

It is important to let the wet out of the tunnel so we can start to prepare the ground for growing. Our soil test results came back recently and the results are very encouraging. All our macro minerals were within acceptable ranges. These were addressed last winter/early spring with rock powder amendments.

Trace elements are a little bit deficient, but that is to be expected since our land, before we became its stewards, was abused by generations of "take only" land owners. We will be replacing trace elements over a period of a couple of years. Over application of these may cause toxic effects to the crops we are going to be growing.

A day like today makes me long for Spring, how 'bout you?

John :)