We planted a ridiculous amount of new stuff, while a few of my chemistry students got service learning hours for helping me spread more of the composted horse manure. In total, probably about 400 different salads, greens, tomatoes and pepper embryos all got to rest in a warm, wet bed of soil. Hard to imagine that they start no bigger than a peppercorn and end up producing so much food when mature.
If you're like me, you're probably thinking "hey, four hundred is a lot, especially since this only covers about 1/6th of the varieties that you planned to grow this year!" Well hey, we want to be safe, and make sure at least some of it makes it to our tables a couple months from now! If we have extra transplants in need of a home by the time late April rolls around, we can give away or sell some of them and raise some more money for the club.
I'll send you some pics of the wonderful progress we made yesterday in just a few days...
best,
Mr. Mikulski
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