SELLMEYER FARM NEWSLETTER

Boy did we need the rain we got this past week! We picked our first tomatoes out of the hoop house this past week, and also picked our first zucchinis! We've dug all our candy onions, and are working on getting the potatoes dug. Today I'm stringing up tomatoes again. (The field ones). We had to get some 8' re-bar poles and stake the heirlooms in the hoop house as they are over 6' tall and still going! We are still picking blueberries, but they are slowing down. The green beans are looking very good, now to just keep the deer out of them! Greg has been working on getting two new fields started. He's plowed, disc, tilled and planted buckwheat in one and rye grass in the other for green manure crops. Hopefully we'll be able to use those next year and rotate the crops around a little better! Hopefully in a couple of weeks we'll be getting some cuccumbers, if we can keep that pesky deer out of them! He's been making a deer repelent spray of hot peppers and eggs to spray on things. But you have to mix it up a bit as the deer can get "immune" to the spray, so you have to keep finding something different to add to it. So he added mint to the mixture this week! Seems to work, but you have to keep spraying it as the rain washes it off.