The last few weeks have been alternately warm and cool. We are still growing lettuce; barely. It wants to bolt but a few days of cool slow it down a bit.
This is the last week of starfruit. I was surprised to price the fruit at a retail store for $2.50 a piece. We had about 6 weeks of fruit this year. The tree yielded very well. I fertilized it this week so as to keep up production for next season.
We are about four weeks away from harvesting potatoes. I planted 'Reddale' and 'Dark Red Norland.' They are looking very well so I hope the yield is as good as they look.
Corn is about 4 inches high. I had to replant due to a lack of rain and some skips but it is starting to take off.
Onions are sizing up, leeks are small yet and green onions are growing as well.
Tomatoes are just starting to ripen. The plants grew tremendously this year but there is some disease in the greenhouse. Organic fungicides don't really slow down the progress of disease so I spent a good amount of time this week removing infected leaves and branches to reduce the inoculum levels. Hope it helps.
Strawberries have produced well and are starting to slow down due to the warm weather. I noticed that many fields are already done picking around town.
Only eight more weeks left in the season!
Saturday, March 16, 2019
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