Greetings, farm friends!

The month of May has been quite the wild ride for us Two Boots Farmers.

With Flower Mart, Mother’s Day, and the always sneakily chaotic week after Mother’s Day that we think will be calm and inevitably is just as busy, we’re exhausted!

Despite our exhaustion, we are so appreciative of all of our friends and customers who have cheered us on through these hectic weeks and tolerated our often-scattered brains as we problem solve and make sure everything is tended to.

I’m also so grateful to our crew for hitting the ground running and putting up with this month’s stress with kindness and grace.

We’re very lucky to be surrounded by such generous, caring employees, customers, friends, and family. Thank you all for everything!

We were inundated with rain this week, which sets us back a bit on our late Spring planting timeline. The fields are underwater in spots but hopefully beginning to dry out. It’s nice to see some sun again! We’re in for a marathon of planting dahlias, zinnias, cosmos, sunflowers, and more as soon as we can get back into the fields.

The rain did give us a chance to catch up on weeding in our high tunnels. We rarely till our soil but in the process of reshaping all of our high tunnel beds last fall we decided to till most of our tunnel beds. I’m beginning to regret that decision, as it seems to have brought a substantial weed seedbank to the surface, and we have more weeds in the high tunnels than I’ve seen in all my years at Two Boots. We generally run a pretty tight ship and it’s rare that weeds get away from us, so it makes me nervous to see the tunnels so out of hand.

It may have been dreary, but our florist orders were huge this week, and we were pushing to harvest every single stem available in time to get deliveries out the door. The overcast weather really slows down the flowers, which can make it hard to fulfill orders. We predict our flower availability a week in advance, which means we’re not always certain what the weather has in store.

There’s not much more to report from the farm this week, so I’ll keep this week’s newsletter short and sweet.

Sunday Market

We’re back at the Baltimore Farmers’ Market starts this Sunday, May 18th, from 7:00-12:00.

We’re back to our usual market programming. This week we’ll have bouquets in all sizes, peony bunches, poppy bunches, and an assortment of other bunched blooms to be determined.

We’re done with seedlings until next Spring. I hope your gardens are planted and thriving!

Thanks for reading, and, as always, we appreciate your steadfast support.

Wishing you all the best,
Amelia, Elisa, and the Two Boots Crew

Rainy May Days

Sunday Market