Thursday, 22 July 2010

Wow, what is it with the rain?! At least it cools things down for a little bit, but then it gets hot and steamy and then it rains again! We've been working on insulating our box cooler. This is the box part of a truck that was wrecked and we got from a salvage yard. We cut a hole in it and put in a window air conditioner. We've had it for a couple of years, but never had got it insulated properly. So hopefully now it will be more efficient and won't have to work so hard to keep the temperature where we set it!

We have been getting some heirloom tomatoes out of our hoop house. We planted Cherokee Purples, Mr. Stripey, Wasipian Peach, Red Zebra, Kentucky Beefsteak, German Johnson and Paul Robeson's inside along with some regular hybrid reds. They are doing pretty good. The nice thing about being protected in the hoop house is all this rain is not causing them to split and get all the fungal diseases! The tomatoes are getting much bigger then they have when we grow them in the field. We had a 2lb. one the other day! Some of the vines are about 9 feet tall now! Will try to remember to take my camera out today when I pick and take pictures! The okra is really coming on, it likes this hot steamy weather, and the zucchini have gone to town! So nice after last years crop failure do to the deer! We are barely starting to get cuccumbers, but the deer have been munching on them. It's hard to keep the deer repelent spray on them with all this rain!

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