After the Easter warm season, covered in snow and licked by frost, we got heating for the second time. Feeling the radiators, we still do not believe that the heat will flow. The markets of Alytus do not doubt it and blow the spring pipe with full lungs!
Tomato seedlings – 1.5 euros, cucumber – 2 euros
I didn’t hesitate for a moment about the breakthrough of spring: chickens are chirping in Kaniūkai, tomato plants have sprouted along the roads in Jotvingiai market and Jazminai, cucumber seedlings are turning green with four leaves, carpets of flowers drown the eye.
April queen market orphans have passed the test of cold and snow, especially the small flowers, blooming and blooming in flower gardens and graves. Some florists are already finishing their sales, others are just starting their season. The blooming pansy still holds 80 cents.
A mosaic of flower beds in the jasmine market.
Cabbage vegetable plants cling lovingly to the flower beds, a seedling costs 40 cents. Tomato seedling, barely with flowers, 1.5 euros. Four-leaf cucumber – 2 euros. A sprig of parsley – 30 cents. Strawberry sprouts – 40 cents, strawberries – 60 cents.
At the beginning of April, the people of Alyty bought fruit tree seedlings well, and at the end they are interested in them again. I looked around, I didn’t notice a single local fruit tree grower in the markets, the gardeners of the Kaunas region reign. Blooming apple pie or cherry pie in a pot – 15-25 euros. Currant, gooseberry seedlings – 5-10 euros.
Potatoes, greens, grains
Rima Zalieckienė, a farmer from the village of Alytus, brought beautiful potatoes to Jazminai market – 60 cents per kilogram. And, for the more expensive ones, sprouted in boxes – a three-pronged sprout protrudes from each eyelet. Well, he knows how to sprout: I forgot a basket of potatoes in the basement of the apartment building – the threads of the sprouts stretched for half a meter, you can’t plant them.
Antanas Balevičius from Rajžiūnai had good edible potatoes at the Kaniūki market. Bag (30 kg) – 15 euros.
Antanas Balevičius, a resident of the village of Rajžiūnai, who brought potatoes to the Kaniūki market, says that potatoes are cheap, and it takes a lot of work to grow them.
“Cheaper than a bottle of schnapps,” the man explained.
Potatoes were delivered in abundance in Kaniūkai, 40 cents per kilogram.
The other day, I saw Petras Kaškonas, the gaspador of the Butrimonia region, planting early potatoes near his house – the roots are turning green!
The first potatoes were planted by members of gardener’s associations, covered with film. By the way, I heard that potatoes should be planted at night – Colorado beetles do not notice and do not attack.
Vytautas Baležantis from Alytis, in the village of Gervėnai, keeping a Lithuanian heavy mare with a yearling filly in his father’s house, became interested in harnesses. He is advised by Gintas Sabonis, the dealer and owner of the Kaniūki market.
It’s not just beautiful potatoes to sell, Eimantas Bakšys, a farmer from the Miroslava ward, has been transporting his greens from his greenhouses to the Jotvingiai market for two weeks. A bunch of radishes, a handful of lettuce, spinach – 1 euro, a handful of onion leaves – 70 cents.
“With Gabija, we also picked the best berries, 5 euros per kilogram”, – Eimantas does not forget the goodies of the forest.
Eimantas Bakšys, a farmer from the Miroslava district, located in the Jotvingiai market, also has forest products – the best.
The Jazminai market is also full of boba, 5 euros per kilogram.
The farmers of Likiškėliai village, Nastutė and Rimantas Kiūdelai, also enriched the jasmine market with greens grown in greenhouses – spinach, leafy beets. Farmers have been selling greenhouse lettuce, radishes, and onion leaves for a long time.
The stall of the farmers Rimantas and Nastutė Kiūdelei of the village of Likiškėliai at the jasmine market was filled with leafy beets and spinach.
“There are no mushrooms, just smurfs,” declared Arvydas Janulevičius, a farmer from the village of Masališkių in the Varėna region, who appeared at the Kaniūki market, bringing oats to the market, a bag (50 kg) for 10 euros. They also brought wheatgrass, a bag (50 kg) for 10 euros. They still have a full complement of the latter.
Marytė and Vytautas Geraltauska from Aly are talking with Arvydas Janulevičius, a farmer from the village of Masališkių, who brought oats and wheat.
“The police broke up the bravuras, the craftsmen of the house were silenced, all the hope was for the bakers.” I live in the woods so that people don’t drive in vain, write down the phone number, 867298540,” asked the spider.
Valdas Mockevičius, a farmer from the municipality of Birštonas, who sells at the Jotvingiai market on Thursdays, also has unshelled buckwheat (1 kg price), peas – 1, and beans – 6 euros for sowing.
Rimantas Adomaitis from the village of Plasapninkai was satisfied with the Kaniūki market. Wheat (50 kg) was sold for 10 euros, oats (45 kg) were sold for 7 euros.
Rimantas Adomaitis from the village of Paslapninkai brought oats and wheat to Kaniūki.
At the Kaniūki market, a mixture of yellow-flowered and blue-flowered lupins in bags, 1 kg 1.5 euros, vetches and peas – 1 kg 80 cents.
And foxes treasure chicken eggs
The first laying hens appeared in this market. One – 2.2 euros.
The first laying hens appeared in the Kaniūki market.
Poultry farmers in Nemunaitis sold laying hens that are already laying for 11 euros each, while three-week-old spotted white and molly chicks are selling for 10 euros.
The laying hens of Nemunaitis also lay eggs in the market.
I wondered why chicken eggs are not cheap in the market, 2.5 euros per dozen, after all, cereals are cheap. You hear, chickens don’t only need grain, it’s hard to save them, foxes attack.
For example, a resident of the village of Taukotiškių still regrets it today: last October, a fox dug into the hen house and killed 5 guinea fowl, 32 common hens and a duck. Birders do not call hunters.
Stasinė is coming, we will plant onions. Markets and shops are full of single-headed seedlings, multi-headed ones are a rarity.
Vytas had multi-headed onions at the Kaniūki market, braid (3kg) 15 euros.
Vytas of Alytis brought a bunch of potatoes and onions to the Kaniūkai market
PS After a good job, you need to have a good snack. The best and most expensive trio of pork at the Jazminė market meat pavilion: neck, loin and ribs, 7.5 euros per kilogram.
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