SELLMEYER FARM NEWSLETTER

STRAWBERRIES!! We are up to our ears in strawberries! We picked a little over 400 quarts Friday to take Saturday to the Columbia Farmers' Market and sold out. We didn't get the whole patch picked, so on Sunday we picked another 122 quarts, sold 18 quarts from the house and took 104 quarts to the Produce Auction Barn Monday morning to sell. Still haven't got the patch all picked! So I will be picking and taking some to the Fulton Farmers' Market on Wednesday! We have been freezing and dehydrating them. Also need to get some made into jam to sell this winter. Our heirloom tomato and basil plants were a hit also at the Market on Saturday. We had quite a bit of kale left, so would also like to try drying some of that for kale chips, but the dehydrators are full of strawberries. So we ordered another dehydrator yesterday and hopefully will get it here by Thursday so we can get it filled up, too! I worked the other day getting fifty 50 cell trays filled with potting soil so we can get all our winter squash, pumpkin and summer squash seeds started. Greg is coming home early today so we can work on that. We've been getting a lot of rain, so it is too wet to work up the ground to make beds and get seedling planted outside. We've planted all our greens seed and radish seeds twice now, they keep getting rained out. Hopefully we'll get some to come up soon. The seedling we planted earlier are doing great and picked off them last week. Guess we will have to go to more of the transplant seedlings instead of sowing seeds directly into the ground. Our ginger is looking good in the green house and really getting tall. Need to get that transplanted out into the hoop house soon. Also need to get the tomatoes that we set out in the hoop houses strung up soon. That is one job I absolutely hate and can't ever seem to stay on top of!