SELLMEYER FARM NEWSLETTER

Again it's been a while since I last posted, but we've been busy. That seems to always be the excuse anyway!

Since I last posted we've been on vacation. We went to Saugerties, NY to their garlic festival! That was very interesting and of course we bought a lot more garlic to plant. So since we've been home we've shucked and planted around 72 varieties and close to 10,000 or more cloves! Yes I know, that's a lot of garlic!!! We've also been digging sweet potatoes. We have about 1/3rd done I think we have around 10 more rows to go. They are producing very well  for the most part. Was a bit disappointed in the purple ones productivity, but it was our first year for them. We may need to find a different variety next year or try them again in a little bit different spot and water them a little less?! Our strawberries we planted earlier are looking very good, much better than they did this time last year, so hopefully that is a good sign for next year?!:) I have yet to dig my tumeric and ginger am waiting as long as possible to let it get as big as possible...but will have to start digging it in the next week probably. We haven't had a frost yet, but it's only a matter of time. We are still getting tomatoes, peppers and eggplants, but they are tapering off. Pretty soon I will be able to start picking green tomatoes and freezing them.  We are still doing market and will be moving to our winter indoor market the first weekend in November. That will be nice to be under roof. The last 3 Saturday markets it has rained on us and while the cooler weather hasn't been that bad it's not fun when you're wet! Well always lots to do and not much time to do it. We really feel the pinch now that the days are shorter and only getting more so!