Today's activities:

• Sifted composted for an hour or two
• Moved the fan in the greenhouse to a new position because it seemed to be drawing in cool air from the unheated section of the greenhouse:
  
• Sorted lots of potatoes.
• Collected maple sap.

Leslie made a concoction to spray on the seedlings to help with a pale green fungus that seems to be building up on soil. She boiled horsetail for a while and got this:

A bottle of goo. She then mixed this 1:9 with water. This is a Biodynamic preparation, and has to be stirred for twenty minutes (more on this in a later post). After the stirring the preparation is sprayed on the seedlings. Here's Ali in on the action: