March 13 Newsletter

The snow is shrinking
It’s great to be back
I’m busy thinking
with botanical gardens in the Shack

Hello!

It’s a long winter. I’ve had enough snow, cold, wind and ice. I’m ready for it to dry up.

The green house has been fired-up, pepper seeds are started. Some herbs, Parsley, Sage, Thyme now sown.

I hope to open the first week in April. Easter is so early this year. Don’t know if anyone can plant seed potatoes on Good Friday. That was always the magic day to plant them. I never could understand that, but oh well!

Don’t get in the Gardens too soon, you will pay the Fiddler all season. The soil stays in clumps, you need to take a shovel and dig a bit in the garden. Take a handful of soil and squeeze it. If it stays in a ball, it’s too early to work the soil. It needs to crumble from your hand.

This is my 21st year At The Farm. I’m glad I don’t get any older. I really feel good and looking forward to an exciting year.

I have new elves coming to help. A young fellow from Church. He plays the trumpet, very excellent, and I became his friend, in his first year at Northwest Bible College. A lady who did the flower gardens at Minnetonka Country Club (that is no longer there) will help me, God puts people in your path and you need to be smart enough to figure it out.

I have two dinners Farm to Table with the Noble Lion in Victoria, a Garden Tour in July, maybe a Garden Designer who has the bug to start his own business to design gardens. He is very talented and will do well.

Redoing one of my sheds with stunning collections of Botanicals and Antiques. It’s good to re-invent myself. Otherwise you die on the vine.

That’s it for today.
Donna

P.S. Don’t forget about the great food at The Noble Lion in Victoria. I was there on Sunday.