January finally brought some badly needed precipitation. As you can see below in the strawberry picture, our soil was starting to dry up and crack from lack of rain. It rained freezing rain Monday night and Tuesday it sleeted and later snowed. Ice formed on everything above ground and a thin layer of snow blanketed the ground. Jeff's fields glistened with so much ice it was nearly blinding, and the fresh plowed ground looks like a frozen ocean under the snow. Unfortunately, all that wintery mix only amounted to about 3/4" of precipitation so January was a dry month.The month of January usually provides 1.5 inches of precipitation, and until the ice storm we had none.
Just imagine, soon we'll be planting into this soil. I've put in my two weeks at my winter job, and on February 9 I'll be back out at the farm full time. Wahoo! I'm really looking forward to having the time to devote to getting the farm up and running for our first full season. I also hope that I'll be harvesting as early as February if the weather warms up soon enough. We have overwintered quite a bit of spinach, some turnips, and some carrots.
Wow! I think you all had more ice than we did! I hope your strawberries made it okay.
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