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 […]
