Starting to feel the chill in the air down here! We had a couple of evening lows around 45 the last couple of nights. We're creeping back to the comfy 50s again but a reminder that fall is on the way.
We do quite a bit to wrap up the season out here--it starts with harvesting just about everything we can out of our main cover cropped fields. We'll send lots of greens to market and the food bank next week--and you'll see some headed your way this pick up as well. After harvest, it's a quick run through for the sheep. They help clip everything down (reducing a tractor pass with the mower) and lay down some nutrients for our cover crop. Then we disk to break up the ground, seed cover crop, and cross our fingers for rain. This year we're doing a mix of rye and vetch--rye for biomass, vetch for all the good nitrogen fixing and weed coverage it provides. It's a pretty wild time of year. We go from fields of crops to what looks like bare ground before things take hold again.
Box this week brings some kisses of summer still--I'm holding out on doling out the winter squash still!
