SELLMEYER FARM NEWSLETTER

We've been picking strawberries for 4 weeks now and are about done. The outside ones aren't doing so well with all this rain. We've gotten most of the sweet potato slips planted (1,400) but still have a couple hundred to go. The problem is we've run out of bed space and need to make up more but the rain keeps us from being able to work the ground! Plus the bunnies and deer like munching on them! Greg has been spraying an egg and hot pepper spray on them, but again the rain keeps washing it away. We missed last nights chance of rain, but they are calling for more rain tonight so we'll see if we can dodge another one! I've been pulling weeds out of the garlic. They are make scapes now and have been cutting them to sell. We've gotten the ground worked in the big hoop house and trenches made so I can plant my ginger, now just need to find time. All the tomatoes are planted so now we need to get them all staked and twine strung. UGH!!! I absolutely hate that job! We put an electric fence around the okra to keep the deer out of them so we don't have a repeat of last summer with no okra! Well I need to wrap this up and go switch the water in the hoop house. Kind of ironic with all the rain that we still have to water!