Spring Done Sprung

Over the last few months we have been busy brewing a lot of beer!  Since January 1st we have made somewhere around 50 gallons of beer in 10 different batches...  Geoff and I have been really enjoying this hobby, and of course it's benefits (as much beer as we could possibly drink/give away).  Visitors to our house are never wanting for something to drink either, so if you'd like to come visit you know we'd take great care of you ;)  The current brew list includes vanilla java porter, ginger rye ale, chai milk stout, pumpkin pie ale, and soon there will be hazelnut milk stout, cinnamon apple wheat, and a very hoppy pale ale.

Last month we purchased 22 hop rhizomes and are working on getting our hop trellises up!  Hopefully that happens very soon, we are losing time!  Geoff has been working a lot with planting, and I haven't quite figured out how to put in a telephone pole on my own so... we've been a bit delayed.

The greenhouse has become my favorite thing to work on while Geoff is working away from home.  I've been eating some delicious greens out of there for a few weeks now and I was able to harvest a handful of radishes also.  The plants are doing great so far!

This is the garlic, which was the first thing I planted in the greenhouse last fall.  It is waist high on me and getting close to harvest time!  

A sideways shot of the second planting of radishes, there are two more rows planted this week also that aren't up yet.

I don't get why these photos keep being sideways... but OK.  A bunch of the multiplier onions my mom gave us last fall.  

The micro greens mix we've been eating for a month now, still going strong!

Carrots I planted months ago that I thought were lost forever started coming up last week!

My beautiful broccoli plants.  The first bunch I transplanted froze in early April, so I started a bunch more from seed and they all made it!

Snap peas on their trellis are growing very fast!

Recently transplanted brandywine tomatoes, the first transplants froze last week because I was dumb and didn't cover them...

Newly potted basil plants have been living in the hoop house this week since the weather has been warm enough at night.   We will be making oodles of pesto this summer :)

The lone rosemary plant.

Tiny lettuce planted about two weeks ago.

Recently transplanted pepper plant, I only put out two as an experiment...

I'm hoping to get the outdoor garden in in the next couple of weeks... I already feel behind.  The busy time of year is coming up, let's hope the next time I update I'll have a great looking garden!  The plastic has to come off the hoop house pretty soon too, it's getting pretty hot in there during the day now.  

We are toying with the idea of a summer brew party at our place this summer, maybe end of July?  We will have plenty of home brew, venison, and home grown veggies to go around :)  A band would be a great addition and we're working on that.  People would be welcome to come out on a Saturday and camp out, we have plenty of space!  If you're interested in something like this let us know!