At the Farm is located on Highway 5 in Carver County, Minnesota - 2.5 m. East of Waconia - 4.5 m. West of Victoria - 10 m. West of Chanhassen
Donna Frantz, Proprietor - 8880 East Highway 5, Waconia MN 55387 - imthefarmer@earthlink.net - 952-442-4816

At the Farm Newsletter

Sent April 22, 2009 HI-HO COME TO THE FARM! The long winter is over and the weather is HEAVENLY! The cold crops are in for the first planting - potatoes, onions, lettuce, kohlrobi, peas, carrots, cabbage, beets. The soil worked up just great, like chocolate cake mix (which I never use!). I have bulk garden vegetable seeds, onion plants, onion sets, and seed potatoes (red norland, kennebec, norkota russet, dimond dakota, pontiac viking, yukon gold) available for sale now. I have instructions printed out for each vegetable you buy that will help remind you of when to plant, how to plant, etc. These instructions, Garden Tutorials, are also on my website if you forget to get them from me or lose them. Coming soon - cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli plants, rhubarb roots and fall raspberries. I will have some everbearing strawberry and June strawberry plants by the end of April. My new baby chicks came on Monday, 100 little girls, it is just great! I have a NEW SHED. We will paint it red and then it can be called THE RED SHED! I have organic fertilizer, organic cabbage dust, gypsum to loosen your soil, potting soil, moss for your hanging baskets, pointed garden hoes,etc. These supplies are in stock in THE (SOON TO BE) RED SHED. WHEN YOU CARE ENOUGH TO PLANT THE VERY BEST, ASK DONNA! Plan now for spring planting! Donna

More April Gardening Tips - TROUBLE GROWING TOMATOES? Do you get alot of foliage but not alot of tomatoes? You could have too much nitrogen in your soil. Look at the numbers on a fertlizer bag. 1st # is nitrogen for leaves 2nd # is phosphorus for fruiting and flowering 3rd # is potash for root growth If you do not get alot of the blossom sets on your tomatoes you need more phosphorus. You can apply Bone Meal (I have this) to your soil. If you know where you will plant your tomatoes you can apply it when you work the soil. It works very slowly. Or you can put 1/2 cup around each plant a couple weeks after planting Bone Meal is also great for your perennial flower garden now in the spring. Put a 1/2 cup around each plant. Then scratch it in a bit. Keep grass clippings and leaves out of your garden spot for a year, so the soil can recoup itself. Make a compost for your garden and wait to add the compost in the fall when you turn it over. You also can dig in your greens, potato peelings, coffee grounds, tea leaves, egg shells any time in the summer. Just dig a hole between the rows, it will rot. COME TO THE FARM, ITS JUST GREAT! Plan now for spring planting! Donna