May 17 Newsletter

Hello!

The Flowering Bedding Plants are here, very beautiful. Soon they can be planted, but needs to dry out. Don’t plant too soon, the soil is not warm and things go backwards.

If you can work your soil so it crumbles in your hand and does not stay in a ball. You will pay the fiddler all season if too soon.

Cold crops first – onions, potatoes, peas, lettuce, radishes, kale, cabbage and kohlrabi.

Ever here of Ice Man Days May 21-22-23? It can freeze. Maybe that’s why it was always after Memorial Day to plant warm crops.

When I started my journey opening an antique store and hardware store in St. Boni in 1970, we had started to collect antiques and one Sunday we drove through St Boni to an auction and this building was for sale. That week we bought it.

There had been a hardware store in there and the town people asked if we could put some hardware in, so we did. It was smart and dumb. People got their big items somewhere else, but needed a screw or paint brush, that’s what I sold.

The antique store was fun. It was the beginning of that era. Turned a lot of stuff. Went to a lot of auctions. After 5 years it wasn’t working, we sold the building and went to Waconia to open a garden store. I ran that for 21 years. Then to the farm. I’m in my 22nd year here, the best business I’ve done.

For Your Garden

At The Farm – Pickup on Tuesdays

Untiedt’s CSA Program