Food & Drink

Frost blackens sprouting potatoes; 310 trees arrive

Dean Mullis
Dean Mullis JEFF SINER -- jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

A recent freeze killed and blackened all the potatoes that were coming up. Maybe they will re-grow.

One hundred broiler chicks arrived Wednesday morning and are brooding in the greenhouse.

Our new layer flock of 45 Australop hens are starting to lay small pullet eggs.

I thought I knew what I was going to be doing Thursday until Fed-Ex showed up at 10 a.m. with 310 bare root trees I had ordered – 300 black locust for a living fence/future firewood and fence posts and 10 paw-paw trees.

We got 200 black locust trees planted by Friday evening with a KBC planting bar.

Dean Mullis writes from Laughing Owl Farm in Richfield.

This story was originally published April 12, 2016 at 1:18 PM with the headline "Frost blackens sprouting potatoes; 310 trees arrive."

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