The greenhouses have  consumed vast amounts of time  over the last 4 weeks. As we open the greenhouses for trade this coming Thursday,we have additionally had to straighten up the pottery barn and organize the driveway and parking  areas in preparation  for  opening. A few folks  have  alreadyt meandered through, picking up some lettuce and  onions  and pansies, but by next weekend we will be  retailing in earnest. The temperate and sunny spring  thusfar  has dried things  up in the fields  so that we are actually  hoping to pick an inch or so out of the next forecasted rain event in a couple of days. We got underway with field work  about 10 days ago with our tractor guy, George Cilley,  getting  much of the winter stockpile of dairy manure spread and  incorporated. Some  chisel plowing,fertilizing and harrowing has  been started and  by tomorow we should get a spring cover crop of  field peas and  oats planted on a field that will ultimately be planted to late fall sweet corn in July when we incorporate those  peas and oats. Although we don’t have any peas,greens,onions or potatoes planted, we should have some small veggies in the ground by mid to late week. Blueberry pruning is finished, the strawberries are demulched and Ray, Mike  and Jenny have been laying out irrigation  pumps and pipe in the strawberries, just in case we dont pick up any moisture this week. People are working longer hours and the heat is on….