Welcome Cool Weather

Jenn and I were just having a conversation last week about how hot it has been this winter and what it might be like to grow in an area that has an actual cool, moderately protracted spring.  Then this last week blows in and it has been beautiful.  There is so much guess work growing in our area.  I almost planted green beans and corn thinking that our last frost was behind us.  I'm so glad I didn't because we did get a frost at the farm.  It has burnt some of our potato plants that were looking great.  Even some of our kale got frosted which surprised me.  My brother Pat and I had managed to protect all the newly emerged potatoes from our first heavy frost a few weeks back.  We covered them with pots or if they were small we used soil.  We did manage to cover up our young lemon, grapefruit, and naval orange trees and this spared them from real damage.  Thanks to Pat for helping out here as well.
We have been picking a few of our greenhouse tomatoes lately and they are yummy delicious.  We are growing Celebrity mainly.  The taste is as good as a Celebrity will taste, which is pretty good.  But the plant is grown more for yields than for taste.  That is another decision that must be made every year.  Do we grow for taste or for yields or try to get the better of the two?
I've been trying to trouble shoot an electrical problem with our irrigation valves for a few weeks with no luck.  So I called in the backup.  Dad came out and we cobbled together a solution that will get our blocks automatic watering again.  This will save some time in the evening visits to the farm.
We planted some zucchini and yellow squash, the last of the lettuce, more green onions (I love their taste especially on sandwiches), and red beets.  I will be planting two kinds of corn, melons, basil, green beans, peas, and peppers shortly to round out the last 8 weeks.
My family were talking about carrot tops and if you could eat them.  So our in house reference source (Pat) did some research and came up with this site.  All you could ever want to learn about carrot tops.   http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/carrotops.html