Green Christmas

Maryellen in front of one of the hoophouses. Note the sides are rolled up because the chicken manure compost stinks so much.

It has been such a mild winter that the ground inside our hoophouses hasn't froze yet. As a result, we were able to go up there yesterday and spread very stinky composted chicken manure and some lime, and rototill it all in. When you add some rock picking and general clean up, the whole project took about the equivalent of a day. Which is now one less day of work we will have to do in the spring, when we are always really pressed for time.

If I were a plant, I would think this would be a good place to grow.

But enough work -- today we began our Christmas break!