Monday 27 June 2011

We were needing rain, and now we've had rain. What we did not need was more wind. In last nights storm we lost the plastic off of our biggest hoop house that we plant tomatoes in, and a few more branches!

We've been planting beans, and have beans, summer squash and cucumbers all sprouting. We've got a few of our first summer squash starting to bloom. The deer had been eating on our okra plants, so Greg sprayed a hot pepper/rotten egg concoction on them and they are looking better, but now with the rain he'll need to respray them.

Over the weekend we worked at cleaning out one of the little hoophouses and tilling it and laying drip tape and plastic in order to get ready to plant some things to go late into the fall and early winter. This afternoon I've been working at doing a second stringing of our field tomatoes. Last week we worked on pulling weeds out of the potatoes, have quite a bit done, but still have 3-4 rows to go yet.

Our fennel, cardoon and carrots are looking great, may even have fennel this week for the CSA boxes!

This cooler weather has been a blessing, but looks like it's not too last! Talking 90 degrees again this week! Well it was nice while it lasted.

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