You know the gardening season is just begun when… you have to make ten trips back and forth to get everything collected, just to seed a tiny bit of row! Rusted up over the winter, I was.

But once everything inside the tunnel greenhouse, I sure got warmed up. So it was off with the tuque, scarf, and winter jacket to seed the little patch of chervil that you see just behind me.

Our little tunnel greenhouse figures highly in our plan to begin the basket season much sooner, and it will be packed full in a few weeks. The challenge then will be to start working outdoors, in the field, where currently there is about an 18″ blanket of thick-crusted snow. So, well, we shovelled a bit: first to locate the bed we’ll be needing in a few weeks, then to put down a test strip of plastic to see whether it would be worthwhile on a larger scale to speed up the melting. Crazy darned farmers!