March 2026 Update

As usual, I have been busy this March with seed starting activities. So far I have started seeds for the brassicas, petunias, parsley, eggplant, tomatoes and peppers. Next up in the lineup will be the cucumbers and squashes. It keeps me busy with watering duties, and I am looking forward to getting some of them in the ground and containers next month.

brassica seedlings

I’ve been harvesting greens from the greenhouse and vegetable garden. About half of our collards survived the winter and I have been cutting leaves from them for our use. I got a nice haul a couple of weeks ago, almost three pounds of them.

Nancy Malone Wheat Purple collard plant

harvest of collard greens

I’m also cutting lettuce as needed from the greenhouse. I brought in two large heads of Bergam’s Green leaf lettuce, along with other varieties as well.

Bergam’s Green lettuce

mixed lettuce from greenhouse

The Bergam’s Green went into a wilted lettuce salad we had for dinner one night, which is always a favorite of mine.

wilted lettuce salad

I’ve been cutting the kale in the greenhouse as needed for soups and such. It’s a mix of curly types including Winterbor, Starbor and Scarlet. I used this batch to go in some bean and farro soup I cooked up. The kale does quite well in the winter greenhouse, and it is nice to have available this time of year when harvests are sparse.

curly kale

bean and farro soup with kale

And I’ve been busy baking bread as needed. I ground up some heirloom Turkey Red wheat berries to go in a loaf of sourdough bread and a batch of hamburger buns I made recently. It’s a tasty wheat for baking into breads, and I also used it to make a batch of dinner rolls recently.

Turkey Red sourdough bread

Moomie’s burger buns

We have a lot of early flowers blooming, and I will share pics of them in a later post. I hope you have enjoyed this update, and I’ll be back soon with more happenings from Happy Acres!



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