At this point, I’ll take it. It has been SOOOOOO dry. Ideally we would get an inch to 1 1/2 inches of rain each week, preferably in one day. Sprinkles encourage disease but don’t provide much water. Tuesday was quite muddy in the field after 1.2″ of rain. The boots get really heavy. About 5:15 Wednesday morning the skies opened up and it poured for about an hour. Gave us another .7″ of rain, but surprisingly by yesterday evening the field was not muddy, and thankfully we had no washed out areas.
This week I think there is enough broccoli for everyone. Salad mix will come from Fledging Crow. They are really concentrating on their salad mix this year and doing a good job. They are doing enough volume to keep on top of timing and insect control (floating row covers).
Think of all the things you like to do with cucumbers – gazpacho, slices with something on them for snacks, etc. We have lots. There is still plenty of summer squash this week, but the first/largest planting is going downhill so the supply will probably wane. By the middle of August peoples’ interest in summer squash tends to want also, so I made the second and third plantings much smaller. And then the things we have a few of. The tomatoes are looking good and plentiful.
I walked the field last night and meant to come up and write this while the memory of what is there was fresh, but got distracted looking at tractors online. See you this afternoon.
