Farm Happenings

Weather: It would have been hard to miss the weather this week. Oppressively hot and muggy on Monday and Tuesday, it didn’t make anything easier on the farm. We had rain each day from last Tuesday through Sunday, but it never amounted to much. We let most of the crew take off early on Tuesday because it was too hot really to even see straight, although…

What We Did: Big Ben, Sanna, and Emily muscled through the heat on Tuesday afternoon to transplant broccoli and storage cabbages up on the ridge, while Chris tilled for and seeded rutabagas and carrots for fall storage down at our rental ground. The buckwheat that Ben seeded down there is really growing fast, fat leaves shading out the weeds. Big Ben, Sanna and little Ben also transplanted the very last of the winter squash, a runty-but-delicious variety called Sugar Loaf that always germinated later than the other squash. Several people worked on repairing the bins we use to store our root crops and cabbages. Bekah, Cassie, and Sanna pruned back flowers on the sage and chives, and handweeded the celeriac (which really didn’t take much to do since it was mostly a few barley plants left over from the spring cover crop). Zane mowed the cover crops all over the farm, since the thistles are flowering and the barley, peas and hairy vetch are also flowering. Everybody picked peas on Monday, and nobody complained even though it would have been nicer to do it in the morning. Sarah kept the packing shed running. Bekah seeded the fall crop of radicchio in flats in the greenhouse. Ryan and Zack started staking tomatoes.