March 2014

Residual cold keeps sweeping down off the high plains. Nights are still too cold for planting in my opinion. The crops look ok. Wheat could look better but is responding responding to fertilization, the rye looks good and the mixed cover crop looks excellent.

 

Warm weather will push the grain on along. Not so much with the mustard. That crop isn't looking so well. Likely suppressed by too much hard cold this year. We will see. Nothing to do but wait and watch, now. In the mean time, get the combine ready.

 

In the vegetable garden, we will start planting in about 3 and half weeks. Yellow squash, cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, that kind of thing. No peas this year.