Refrigerator Dill Pickles
Anna made these DELICIOUS pickles from a recipe our neighbor Jay gave her (yes, she put them in an empty jar from store-bought pickles). Our CSA members are starting to get cucumbers, and I highly recommend this recipe (especially considering that some of the cucumbers can be a bit bitter because of the heat). Ingredients...
Seriously?
So… you can breed plants to do all sorts of weird things. How is this guy supporting all those tomatoes? There are more tomatoes than leaves!!!
Rain!
It started drizzling a little while ago, but I thought I’d go out and check for Japanese beetles in the orchard anyway. Thankfully there were only about 10 (I killed some, but it’s so gross I just ended up shaking some off). Before I could finish checking the last tree (and trust me, it’s a...
General Farm Update
Things are growing like crazy out here, and it’s gotten hot now. I picked a whole big bowl of shell peas (with purple pods!) last week, and also sixteen zucchini and some lettuce. We ate a couple of the zucchini, but the rest of the harvest will go to the people subscribed to the farm....
planting crunch in the heat
a scorcher this weekend, but we still jammed out a 10 hour day on saturday! cory, our neighbor, did a truckload of compost in the rows and transplanted a couple of rows of beets. amber and i focused on row prep, transplanting, and direct seeding. our goal was to get everything for the main season...
hot and dry and how to irrigate
we should get enough rain every month during the growing season… roughly one inch a week. however, the rain comes in storms, as opposed to a nice steady flow, and we cannot always count on it. for example this month we have been short an inch and these hot dry spells are great for picnics,...
Japanese Beetle Invasion!
Just when we get the flea beetles under control, Japanese Beetles attack! There were a few last week, but this week they were everywhere! We got “homeopathic” (not sure how much I believe that) beetle-sex-smell traps that we’ve hung along the fence. In the end you are supposed to end up with a big bag...