Farm Happenings

What We Did: We finished up the last of the rutabaga harvest on Tuesday afternoon, just as the sun was going down, putting about 5,000 pounds into the cooler, which is now officially full. On Wednesday, we’ll start to harvest the last of the beets, with an eye towards finishing by early next week. On Tuesday, we also planted the garlic crop that we will harvest next summer, placing each of the cloves of garlic root-end down in the cool soil. They’ll have plenty of time now to put on some good root growth for winter, which helps keep them from heaving out of the soil, and gets them a head start on spring.

Weather: Can’t complain about the weather, really. Most days have been pretty nice, although the drizzly aspect of the last two weeks has made some of our harvest work a little bit challenging. Most days we start off now by cleaning squash and onions in the greenhouse, then moving outside to harvest once the frost has gone off of the crops.