APRIL AT LEWIS CREEK FARM

April is a marginal month whether-wise. It freezes frequently at night and it is still quite wet often due to a significant snowfall around mid month. The greenhouses are filling up fast at this point, and by the end of the month they will all be full to bursting. We rarely do any field work in the first part of April, but in the later part of the month we can usually get out and plow some of the earlier fields. By the last week

There's not much green in the fields yet, but the plants are off to a good start in our greenhouses.

in April we usually manage to get the potatoes planted and the first planting of peas, spinach and beets seeded in the field.
Many people get all excited, the first warm days in April. Often I hear people bragging that they planted their peas and spinach the first week in April. My experience is that germination is often very poor in those cold cold soils that have just barely thawed, and then the plants grow so slowly in the cool April weather. The net result being that the first peas are harvested only 2-3 days earlier than mine which were planted two to three weeks later. So, I don't get too frantic on thoe those beautiful days early in April. Late April wil do just fine.
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