Dropstone Farms

So it turns out that I deeply, deeply love preparing seedbeds. I love double-digging and broadforking and cultivating soil. An I love creating a nice, smooth, enriched bed to plant starts in. It’s as satisfying to me as sweeping a concrete floor. And I love sweeping concrete floors.

Here’s most of the former tomato beds. I took out the plants and the weeds and fluffed up the soil with the broadfork. Where the soil was really choked with weeds I double-dug and hopefully it’ll be better next year. Our plan for the winter is to sow crimson clover because it’s a little late to sow anything that’ll yield over the winter and one can never go wrong investing in one’s soil. And hey, look at that fluffy soil. It’s soo much better that when we started less that a year ago. It makes me really, really proud that we’re improving the soil in our little farm.

Seed bed. I love it.

In other adventures I built a hoophouse over some of the winter beds. I cannot stress enough how awesome hoophouses are. When I was putting this one up I stuck my arm underneath and it was already 10 degrees warmer than ambient under the plastic. You cannot argue with that.

So I stuck my phone underneath and took some random photos. You certainly can argue with my photography and, if we don’t get anything from this bed come spring, feel free to argue with me on that. I’ll blame myself and not the hoophouses though. Learning is hard but it surely is fun.

Look! It's Lettuce!