We planted early…

so we cultivate early.

Not a bright April this far; so we took advantage of yesterday’s sunshine to cultivate (weed) our earliest field planting which had a bit of chickweed and grass that survived tillage.

These shots are Starfighter lettuce grown for mix, we seed 4 seeds/cell in 128s and plant at 6” in three rows.

We succession plant all season, every 2 weeks in the spring, every week in the summer, and tail back to every other week in the fall.

These were transplanted March 19 and will be ready to harvest first week of May ~6 weeks, in the summer the time between transplanting to harvest is less than 4 weeks.

We grow a mature full size lettuce, let the robots and mechanized outfits chase the petite mesclun market.

Ambitious 2025 Spring Planting Plan.

Mother Nature:  I’m going to give you rather narrow planting windows this Spring.

word.

Putting in a big day ~12.5 hours of fieldwork to maximize the window.  Heaps of planting, a bit of fertility & rock work, gh chores, and an evening row cover session.

If we don’t get too much precip tonight we’ll plant a bit more tomorrow afternoon, otherwise done with fieldwork til we dry out next week.

Cabernet red onions before planting this afternoon.  3 rows per bed, at 9” spacing with 4 seeds/cell > ~3 plants per block.

Growing veggies for the fine folks of Southeastern Massachusetts, w/ a focus on nutrient quality. Always interested in the evolution of digital payments.  🎩 

🥑🍋 Farmer / LAMP stack dev / Husband / 🌈 Dad / Web1 dude loving a web3 world / Collector of things digital & physical / 
CdeP ‘94 

We use a dibbler to mark beds.

Works wonderfully for spacing hand transplants.