This is the last harvest weekend for our 2018-19 season. I am happy it is wrapping up and looking forward to having a few Saturdays back in the week. I will however, miss seeing everyone at pickup time.
Our season was really good this year. We had bumper tomatoes, strawberries, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, bok choi, greens, swiss chard, and starfruit. I was disappointed with the corn crop. We had raccoons and poor pollination. Last year we had tons of corn. This year I didn't even eat one ear. I wanted a little more broccoli, squash, cucumbers and peppers. Something to shoot for next season.
A big winner this year was using bug screen for the greenhouse. That paid off greatly in reducing the amount of pest pressure from stinkbugs and allowed the tomatoes to benefit.
We are planning next year's season already and I will start plowing in this season's weeds. Cover crop will be planted in a few weeks and then we will take it easy for a few weeks.
Next blog will have a bunch of pictures from this season's hard work.
Friday, May 10, 2019
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