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
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Week 21, 2108-19 Season
We are quickly approaching the end of this farming season and I can already see myself not at the farm on a Saturday morning. However, I did realized this week two things. My mind is already turning towards thoughts about next year's crops and methodologies; and I thought about how we probably won't eat as much produce as we do when we harvest our crops. I miss bok choi already. We ate some from Katie and James' garden at our house and I thought we usually don't buy that from the store. So I will probably wait until next fall before I see it again.
Corn is slowly maturing and will be ready very soon. The new red potatoes did very well this year and we will harvest until the end of the season. Not sure if the leeks will finish on time this year as I planted them late. Hopefully they will size up.
We are picking beets this week. I always struggle to grow good beets but this year it looks like we will get some from the field.
The squashes are slowly gaining ground and producing more along with the eggplants.
We lost our last cucumber crops to some rodent (squirrel, rat, or mouse) that ate all our seedlings emerging from the trays. By the time it wrecked the crop I couldn't replant a crop for the end of the season. We will try again next year.
We planted a ton of onions this year so I hope everyone loves onions. We are picking lots of red and white sweet onion and will do so until the last week of harvest.
Looking forward to a couple more harvest weekends!
Corn is slowly maturing and will be ready very soon. The new red potatoes did very well this year and we will harvest until the end of the season. Not sure if the leeks will finish on time this year as I planted them late. Hopefully they will size up.
We are picking beets this week. I always struggle to grow good beets but this year it looks like we will get some from the field.
The squashes are slowly gaining ground and producing more along with the eggplants.
We lost our last cucumber crops to some rodent (squirrel, rat, or mouse) that ate all our seedlings emerging from the trays. By the time it wrecked the crop I couldn't replant a crop for the end of the season. We will try again next year.
We planted a ton of onions this year so I hope everyone loves onions. We are picking lots of red and white sweet onion and will do so until the last week of harvest.
Looking forward to a couple more harvest weekends!
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Week 16, 2018-19 Season
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!
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!
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