Weather: A drizzly Saturday dried out quickly on Sunday, leaving us wishing we had gotten a bit more rain. By Monday we had made it back in the field for more transplanting, followed by all day rains on Tuesday and Wednesday, which the harvest crew gamely picked their way through. By Wednesday evening, soils were nicely moist and the new seedings of carrots, beets, radishes, and salad mix were having a hard time believing their good fortune.
What We Did: On Thursday, Chris seeded salad mix, beets, and radishes, flame-weeded a new crop of carrots the day before they germinated, and tore up a crop of weeds on our rental land in preparation for the start of the storage crop planting season. Our transplanting crew put out the last of the onions, celeriac, and parsley, as well as the first crop of greenhouse cucumbers. The greenhouse crew – which is basically the transplant crew when it’s too wet to transplant – seeded another crop of broccoli, the winter squash, storage cabbages, and Brussels sprouts. Sarah and Ben re-organized the packing house to better meet the needs of the harvest team. Chris cultivated everything on the farm during Memorial Day’s dry intermission. Everybody worked to get the crops harvested, washed and packed.
Comings and Goings: Our summer crew season officially opened on Monday when Emily returned from an academic year of nursing in
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