Farm Happenings at Cedarville Farm
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Farm Happenings at Cedarville Farm

Farm Happenings for November 4, 2020

Posted on October 30th, 2020
We are basking in some lovely fall weather these past days, brisk in the morning and bright throughout the day, with accents of crimson, orange, and yellow from the many deciduous trees that edge our fields. We've started the fall cleanup work, pulling out spent rows of tomatoes and peppers, rollin1 read more »

Farm Happenings for October 28, 2020

Posted on October 25th, 2020
We are relieved to report that the garden escaped the hard frost that was predicted for this weekend.  It turned cold, but not as severely so as we had feared might hit us.  So for another week, we have tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant to offer, as well as other semi tender crops such as C1 read more »

Farm Happenings for October 21, 2020

Posted on October 17th, 2020
Later this week it's predicted to dip into the low 30's, so we'll be pulling out all of the row cover fabric we have available and installing it over as many sensitive crops as we can.  We'll go through the tomato, pepper, and eggplant beds and pull off everything that looks good (all have bee1 read more »

Farm Happenings for October 14, 2020

Posted on October 10th, 2020
We are wondering when the first killing frost will arrive.  For many years we held October 11th as the arrival date our first killing fall frosts.  If we wanted to have peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and the like for a final harvest, we tried to pick them clean before this date.  For1 read more »

Farm Happenings for October 7, 2020

Posted on October 2nd, 2020
We managed to bring in about half the winter squash crop by week's end, washing and packing the squash fruit in the field, before moving them to our propagation house for curing and storage.  We sprayed the dirt off of each squash and then dipped them in sanitized water in an effort to discour1 read more »