What's happening around the farm.
Posted in Vegetables on Jul 12th, 2011
We got about a 1/4 inch of rain, and would have loved more, but PTL for the what we got. It softened the soil enough that today become a major hand weeding day, pulling the big weeds we couldn’t begin to budge in the dry soil. I think the plants loved the rain on their [...]
Posted in CSA, Vegetables on Jul 11th, 2011
Just as we got everyone to bed for the night I felt a few welcome droplets. It is very lightly sprinkling as I write. I’d love an inch of rain tonight. Unless we get some good rain you probably will not get salad mix. There is LOTs of variety of gorgeous head lettuce, which I [...]
Posted in CSA, Vegetables on Jul 4th, 2011
The first and second snap pea plantings are finally ripening, and the second snow pea planting has started up also. There are several crops that we will have one or two of – I don’t want to say what they are so I don’t disappoint those who don’t get a specific one. There is a [...]
Posted in CSA, Vegetables on Jun 28th, 2011
The good: there are lots of snow peas. You can take all your “points” on snow peas if you wish. The snap peas have not fared as well, and I didn’t plant as many of them as hindsight shows I should have. The lettuce is gorgeous. The herbs are doing very well. The squash is [...]
Posted in CSA, General, Vegetables on Jun 23rd, 2011
I’d rather have one day or night of good rain, totaling about an inch, and then clear days, but we’ll take some rain any way right now. One of the odd things about this summer is that as wet as it has been, as soon as it is not overly wet it is really really [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, CSA, Vegetables on Jun 20th, 2011
You will get summer squash tomorrow! Don’t know how many yet. When things are in high gear, the normal allocation is 4 squash = a “point”. I will harvest and count and divide them out. Remember to look over at the product list on the right for descriptions and recipes. Looks like we will also [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, CSA, Vegetables on Jun 13th, 2011
I personally really enjoy the cool weather, but the tomatoes and peppers sure aren’t growing much. We may have squash already though. If so, it will be “baby”. The female flowers, which are attached to the actual squash, came out the other day but I didn’t see any male flowers until today so I don’t [...]
Posted in CSA, Vegetables on Jun 6th, 2011
Here is what to expect Tuesday: CSA drive in map – Try to walk by the ditch or by the field (in front of front of cars) for safety please. We will be set up beginning at 3 p.m. Thank you to those who have let us know you won’t be coming this week. We [...]
Posted in General, Vegetables on May 29th, 2011
“Mudding in” is a term farmers use when they are transplanting seedlings into muddy soil. We’d rather have the soil in perfect condition to till up a soft, fluffy bed for new roots to grow into, but when we have to, we poke holes in wet soil and stick plants in. We’ve done a good [...]
Posted in General, Vegetables on May 10th, 2011
We quit early today because we were both exhausted, and tractor accidents happen when you are exhausted. Let’s catch you up. The older half of the hoophouse tomatoes were trellised Friday, a good wet weather job. Tore the rest of the old greens out and weeded. Saturday planted the younger hoophouse tomatoes, and since CSA [...]
