Our Greenhouse
The past week has been cold and wet. This means we've been spending our time on the farm among our greenhouse and two hoophouses. What's a hoop house you ask? Let me explain. A hoop house is a structure made of plastic pulled over hooped metal rods, hence the name hoop house. Usually it is only heated by the sun. We transplant our seedlings from the greenhouse directly into the ground of the hoop house. It is warm enough there for our early crops to grow well, things like beets, swiss chard, lettuce, and napa cabbage. The rabbits have already helped themselves to our spring garden and so we have retaliated with covering some of our crops with row cover. It's a white, gauzy type thing that reminds me of a burial shroud.
Hoop House #2
Our time in the greenhouse has been split between seeding thousands of tomatoes (I'm not exaggerating. We'll be growing 2 acres worth of tomatoes!) and transplanting celery,celeriac (celery root) and parsley from smaller trays to larger ones. It's been tedious at times but enjoyable. I can't wait to see all the different colored tomatoes out in the field. We'll even have purple ones!
Transplanting Celery
As for the kitchen mishaps, let's just say it's always an adventure when I enter the culinary domain. Today's adventure involved a bread machine, a sweet bread recipe that was too big for the machine, and a just washed kitchen floor. Oh, and me as well. The dough was floury and dry on top and quite gooey on the bottom when I pulled it out of the machine. I made quite a mess. Thankfully my mom was napping through the whole event and so is oblivious to the small disaster. All is well now, the dough was remixed in a bowl large enough to handle it and is peacefully rising in the oven. I should have learned by now that baking takes twice as long as usually expect. Ah well. Another kitchen story to archive. :)
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