We’ve gotten so much done this week on the farm, here are the highlights:
1. Our two heated greenhouses are now filled with tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini.
2. We raced the rain to put in another round of sugar snap peas, and our first planting of broccoli.
3. We potted up hundreds of tomatoes, herbs, and other vegetables for seedlings sales this spring. We’re building an online store for these and will make sure you get the link when it’s ready.
And of course, we harvested, wash, packed and delivered several hundred pounds of spring veggies for you fine folks. Did you see the radishes this week? They made me swoon. I’ve also been eating them with everything: on toast, in taco’s, in salad, as crudité. I can’t get enough.
Garden Like a Professional
Two little tips this week.
1. I use this calculator (see below) every year to make sure I’m getting crops in on time. First change the date at the top to your first frost date, mine is typically October 8, then put the dates in your calendar so you don’t miss out on fall beets or broccoli, or put your brussels sprouts in altogether to late.
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/growers-library/calculator-planting-dates-fall-harvest-crops.html
2. At this time of year everything grows better with row cover. It’s a light weight fabric that you place over crops to provide frost protection, hold in soil moisture, and protect against insect pests. We’ve got it on all of our crops at the moment, and will continue to use it on anything in the broccoli family for the remainder of the year. In a normal year you can get it at Lee Valley, William Dam Seeds, or for larger quantities Dubois Ag. Here’s hoping it’s not getting panic bought along with everything else.
That’s it for now, happy eating until next time!
Tamara
