Goings on on the Farm

Following last week’s various weather dramas, which included still more rain on Saturday night and a Sunday afternoon cloudburst, moving into a little bit of a drier stretch provided some relief, and an opportunity to get a lot of work done. Chris seeded the crop of storage carrots on Friday, and we mudded in some transplants and another crop of greens at the same time.

Mondays on the farm we try to get the Musts done, like seeding in the greenhouse and pruning and clipping the greenhouse crops. By Tuesday, the fields were fit for a big round of cultivating for weed control. Zane mowed all of the field roads, and cultivated all of the one-row crops, while the rest of the crew harvested, washed, packed, and finished hand weeding the onions and shallots (no small job, that). By Wednesday we were able to get in with the big tiller and plow down new flushes of weeds in the fallow fields in preparation for planting a round of mid-summer cover crops.