Mother's Day week typically marks the beginning of our transition from the greenhouse work of growing vegetable, herb and flower transplants for farmers and home gardeners to planting in our own fields. Ray's son Eric and fiance Tiffany have helped lay out the new drip irrigation system and the landscape cloth for weed control and to keep our produce as clean as possible in the field. Paula and our beloved volunteers Jane and Nayeli continued to pot up the remaining transplants from seeding trays. We have lots of transplants still available but the greenhouse is beginning to look rather empty after a full season of transplant growing. Soon it will be full again with summer baby lettuce and greens production. With our shade cloth in place and the misting system, we plan on producing lots of lettuce inside when it is much too hot to grow it outside. Under the benches we have hundreds of rosemary, tarragon, stevia, pineapple sage, golden and variegated oregano and grape vines rooting very nicely for fall planting.

 

With all the extra helping hands at the farm this week, I took time to put together pots of some of my favorite plants - succulents. I love the many colors, shapes and textures of these low maintenance plants. They aren't fussy about water or fertilizer and there is no need to "deadhead" blooms. Their only requirement is sunlight and an occasional watering.These make great gifts (for Moms!) because they do not require much attention and look great all season. Look for beautiful pots and collections of our succulents and herbs at this week's market.