Close call! Will this be the End?

Had a close call with the temperatures last night, but praise the Lord we are holding steady and no damage. The next 10 days look to be mild and more seasonable but nothing below freezing. I know we can get frost and freeze in April but for some reason I don’t think that we’re going to see that this year time will tell. #gardening #raisedbed #vegogarden

Good morning Community got close didn’t it sun’s coming up now that was the temperature inside outside which was 36 and then then the high tunnel it was 42 got up around 3 and it was uh I think 40° and 44 inside the big high tunnel so

I think that we we got on through it and um I want to go out there I just don’t really want to open it up yet because it always gets coldest right before the dawn you guys know that um we talk about that every year and uh that whole

Dreaded time change I I don’t like it I know a lot of people do look at that big old thing of mushroom compost that means we’ll be planting like crazy anyway I don’t like the time change I know a lot of people do but I don’t I don’t like it being light till

9:00 at night I just don’t we’re Farm MERS we get up early when uh the when the Sun is up at 9:00 at night it makes it very difficult to get up early and take care of things especially in the summertime when it’s so hot at the beginning of the

Day some of little cabbages out here on this raised bed is looking pretty good I kept these two in here I don’t think they look too hot but I kept this here so I could give it to the chickens that one may be just okay and then I have

Some cilantro that I planted by seed and then I’ve got mustard greens in here I can’t wait for this stuff to start coming in and I did throw out some cilantro seeds and it looks like those are coming up as well oh my goodness what is what is

That so we had this delivered yesterday it’s time for us to revamp um some of our containers we revamped many of them um during in the fall season but we need to go ahead and and add some of this mushroom compost to it and of course

We’ll be using this in the high tunnels and we’ll be using this some on the back acre for our planting not to mention filling up my new uh vgo garden beds we’ll be using it in that as well and we figured out what we’re going to do we’re going to fill

About a little over a third of it with wood chips and then we’ll fill it back fill the rest of it up with most of this compost and some planting mix woo we see the fog in here nice warm and toasty at least warmer than it is

Outside I’m going to close this door cuz we don’t want to let it out check on our Tomatoes yes yes we covered them up just in case and you can see Greg’s been busy planting tomatoes in here so far he probably has about 150 plants planted let’s come on back here

And check our plant starts we had a fantastic day at the the farm yesterday guys so many of you from the channel came out and bought some uh plants from us we are so thankful for you thank you so much for coming um all this way many

Of you and picking up plants from us and so you can see my herbs still have quite a few of these and then we have a bunch of herbs over there and here and here these are our tomatoes need to see if they need water this

Morning cuz we put the heating pad on them just in case taking all these precautions folks yeah everything is looking good when that sun comes up it will warm up in here quite nicely so I know our neighbors up north you guys hit freezing uh up in Denton

It’s about probably two hours from me maybe an hour and a half um I know you guys got um a freeze this morning and I know probably even a little south of there you probably got some Frost so I hope you guys covered up what you needed

To cover up um but I’ve been up since about 3: watching things to see if I was going to have to come out here and turn on Mr trusty Mr Mr Heater but thank goodness it looks like we’re going to be okay so I pulled some beats yesterday and I pickled some have

To pickle a lot more and then Greg be making our good old organic beet powder that so many of you love let’s go check the little high tunnel let’s check there degrees in here in the little high tunnel 40° so yes my tomato starts in

Here should be just fine 40° no signs of a frost in here of course because it’s covered but yeah I think that we are looking pretty good this morning morning we did go ahead and cover up our seed starts in here to make sure that they’d be okay

Just in case everything looks like it’s okay got to get to up poting guys so yesterday it was looking like tonight was going to be real similar um to this morning and last night but not anymore they say that we’re going to be around 43 so we should be just fine

Tomorrow not seeing again where we’re going to get even close to the 30s in the next 10 days we are seeing the threat of severe weather maybe on Thursday and then next weekend looks to be a little cool and Mild I’m not minding the cool weather guys I’m not

Minding so the 40s are just fine uh for us at night you know I can’t sleep well when it’s hot outside I’m not ready I’m not ready for the summer um so I’m going to enjoy these cool temperatures while I can but uh yeah it looks like we’re okay

And I think that many of you who bought our plants that are South of I20 looks like you’re probably okay too Greg has my green bean bed tilled up we’ll probably add we’ll probably till it one more time and add some more of that compost but the soil looks really

Really well because of what we do when we plant and micro razol fungi is one of those big things now I did go ahead and plant some green beans in here last weekend uh we’ll see if they’re going to germinate and start coming up if they

Are I should start seeing them in the next seven days um I planted them kind of deep because um I was worried that we were going to get cold it’s time to get busy today um we got a lot to do um a lot of ground to

Cover got a lot of lot of little uh seed starts to get up potted my goodness we’re going to have a busy couple of weeks and uh yeah spring is springing here in Texas you can see our yard is already green um normally we don’t get green

Like this until um at least mid to late March but yeah you can see that uh everything is Greening up much quicker here this year in Texas we did not have um much of a winter at all much of a winter at all so trees are buding out grass is

Growing um hopefully we’re all going to get an early start on our garden this year uh before the heat hits and uh so yeah you guys get busy uh we’ll have another plant cell in a couple of weeks so if any of you are local and are

Interested be sure and come on out and see us um we do have a Facebook page it’s called alvaredo Community Farm you can check that out we also have a website Alvar Community farm.com um check that out as well if you’re looking for seeds we have them and uh yeah so

Thank you guys love you all we’ll be in touch um it’s going to be a beautiful day today 70° in Texas and I don’t think we’re going to have the win like we did yesterday stay safe God bless you all love you all