July 3, 2006
Greetings!
It's been the wettest spring/early summer I can remember. This has been both a blessing and a curse. Excessive rain and humidity grows terrific cabbage and tends to cut back the tomato harvest by damaging the plants early. We have, however, planted around 1200 tomato plants just in case something like this happens. We'll keep you updated on the health of the plants...Also, our greens in the lettuce mix are all ripening at once, and the rain is casuing a bit of rot, taking it's toll on future harvests...It's growing beautifully, but perhaps too beautifully, and too quickly. We plant it every week, the goal being to harvest salad every week, and we'll do our best.
Meanwhile, enjoy the bounty of greens! The spring cabbage, kale, broccoli, corn, garlic, onions, leeks, scallions, beets, celery, chard, collards and potatoes are all loving the rain. Even the eggplants, peppers, watermelons and sweet potatoes look good.
This past week we seeded the final seeding of fall carrots and transplanted the brussels sprouts. The end of June is always a welcome sight, as it seems to be the most challenging of all months fairly consistently. This is because we're still transplanting some big crops while harvest begins.
Althewhile hoeing weeds, seeding in the greenhouse, tending the animals...June is nothing to laugh at either, but it tends to ease up some.
I've included some shots of the potato crop and the corn crop. Both look good to me. Good color, size, and fairly weed free. I spent the morning folair feeding the potato crop with seaweed/fish to the background of classical music. The music stimulates the stomata on the leaf surface to open up and receive nutrients. This should help with the overall yield
and nutrient quality of the crop.
Anyway, hope the photos are helping bring you visually to the farm. Here's the share for the week:
scallions, salad mix, head lettuce, kale, beets, zucchini, dill, baby carrots, and maybe others.
I'm not the one to ask for recipes, sorry. Tracy's putting Beatrice to bed. Hope you're enjoying the harvests!
Your farmer,
Dan
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