We seeded the fall crop of carrots and beets this week, which is the fourth and final planting this season. Some great summer goodies on the July horizon include fresh garlic, many blooming flowers, zucchini, summer squash and cucumbers. The You Pick Flower Share is starting soon, which runs from mid-July to mid-September, so you Continue reading
Garden Morning tomorrow July 1st! Garden mornings are usually on the last Saturday of the month but we’ve had two very rainy ones, and so we’re inviting folks to enjoy teach other’s good company while helping us get caught up on some essential weeding and mulching. Join us for activities in the field 9am-noon and/or Continue reading
We’re in a stretch of rainy weather. This could prove very useful for plant growth, as it is the time of year when we want the foliage to get nice and big so there is lots of leaf mass to photosynthesize and support their future harvestable crop like peppers, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, onions and eggplant. Continue reading
The first round of potatoes, which were planted about a month ago, really loved the rains this week. They shot up and we did the first hilling of that crop. These potatoes should be ready in August, and our “main crop” planting will be distributed in September and October. Come one come all, the June Continue reading
Farm & Garden Updates When the clouds parted yesterday afternoon and the sun shone through in its natural yellow-white gleam it was pure delight to experience. We are relieved to be past the eerie and unhealthy haze of the wildfires and consider ourselves thankful that it DID feel unusual, unlike fellow creatures in many parts Continue reading
Wowza, if you felt sticky or uncomfortable in this heat wave, all the newly transplanted produce felt it too. It was so hot, the top leaves of the eggplant and flowers burned where they were touching the row cover that we use as an early pest barrier on certain crops. Every night and first thing Continue reading
Farm & Garden Updates It was a productive week of transplanting hundreds of brassicas, annual flowers, many herbs and new perennial flowers. Yesterday’s Garden Morning was an awesome kickoff to the weekend (see photo below). We have a planting of snap peas and one of snow peas, but they are 50% of our targeted amount. Continue reading
Garden Updates It’s the season of “putting in the garden”. That is because the average last frost of the season falls at the end of May. We will be transplanting during cloudy or rainy stretches along with evenings through the end of the month. We will be in the garden Saturday (tomorrow) morning and plan Continue reading