never happy! Not happy! Yet! I try!
We had a freeze period on the weekend. Some are Amapiens came one night to help light the candles. They were able to tale atmosphere. But the major difficulty is to properly identify when to switch: not too early because it's expensive, or too late because ... ...... must also provide the starting time. Only it takes longer, but more still needs to be more provident.
short, I think I turned on 2x 2x where not needed and was wise.
I also supported the trees clay treatments and foliar organic fertilizer made of seaweed. But I remain in question. Flowering is finished and I'm not sure that the fruit set, or Pollination has passed satisfactorily. There are varieties that comfort me, but others who worry me. The wind lecture that followed did not help.
And this wind crushed the greenhouse strawberries we had in place three weeks ago.
Already I was late to ask! But well below the strawberries are in full bloom and do not seem to have suffered from -4.5 ° C on Monday morning. Phew, but for me it reactivates the utility tunnels! So many working for harvesting daylight 15j! well yeah, it puts the crop at shelter. But I'm
never alone! A week ago it was freezing and the wind and rain this morning!! yes, if it rains I can not enter the land before a few days and I just started to prepare the soil to receive
my compost! and then I had to put three flat strips of plastic mulch! but before I had to give a little help with the tractor clutches. Heck, my night was inhabited by the sound of rain on my skylight.
never alone! Never happy!
And then the wind has torn off the plastic of the tunnel so beautiful that we had mounted the other Thursday to host the first rotation of tomatoes that I had 15j already behind in planting!
it's my fault! Using unsuitable equipment, I tinker, invent, I traffic, and ... ........ sometimes it does not work at all. At least I know that this new idea needs improvement! but it makes us no tomatoes! but hey maybe even a sign to say we do not like it and want to advance the crop is going to imbalances.
Other ideas have germinated. Now it's really too late to put these tomatoes in the tunnel! I think using the frame of the tunnel that is about to put in good condition Giovani a shade that gives me (a peasant amap near Arles). The major problem is overheating my claws and very dry atmosphere that prevails there. What causes, for tomatoes, a lack of pollination and attacks spiders. I will still plant tomatoes, but I'll ask a very small tunnel (tracked) on each of flowerbeds,
crossing their fingers that the gel is finished, the wind left alone and hopefully we will have tomatoes mid-June!! and if everything goes wrong! Well you can console me and dream of tomatoes! you get it in July!
This wind reminded me how my farm is in the precarious in its structures. Last year, with small arches of the tunnel that I was given, with Lucien, we cobbled together a shed. Super! Finally my tractor, my equipment, my palette of clay, my trays of strawberries, my crates, etc. ... are safe. With this wind, I thought that the tarp that covers everything was going to expose this "improvement". what it takes! Anyway it took! But it is not sure it's yours next time!
I made by a friend plans a building where there would be a shed, garage, storage room, a room in which to prepare the distribution, a local processing, greenhouse glass for planting and then drying, toilets and showers, brief as it should. To apply for the permit, I need a permit to clear (because of the changing nature of the soil). Therefore a folder and I still not done! so it's not tomorrow that I do not tremble before the most insecure facilities. But at the same time
precarious cheap! 150 euros to cover the shed, weather, wire, welds .......
season that begins with tricks, turns, but it's really rare that any battery falls hair! So I have to do with! And to help me, there is the strength of the concept. Since February you sign contracts 2009 and I'm soon to
quantity. Each of you, beyond financial support (which is so tranquilizing) gives me so much love. Even if the tears come, although discouraged, there is a force that is in me! The freezing wind! It's magic! Thank you! A
you, Bernard amap of the Moors, gave me a nice little van: a Nissan-Vanette. Tomorrow he goes to roadworthiness and it is great.
I remember my picnic Farm May 17 It is quite possible that on this occasion a Latvian delegation to come and see how it goes this concept amap. We seek a resource person for the translations of Latvian or Russian to French. The funding has URGENCI for these exchanges are not very consistent. We need to supplement them.
And then I want to congratulate all the players this week that ends without pesticides. You are great. The Hummingbird Stone Rabbi resonates in us. Every act, every choice gives the possibility of hope. And what unites us is this need for love, the invisible force that invites us to move, create, give, receive.
