Goings on on the Farm

It just keeps raining. We had an inch of rain on Friday night, and again on Tuesday night. We seem to get about six good hours of tractor weather between each rainfall, and continue to try to make the most of it with cultivating to kill the weeds, and keeping up on the seeding. I’ve been trying to get a couple of nasty patches of purslane under control, but the fleshy weeds just keep re-rooting in the frequent rains. Our greenhouse is backing up a little with transplants right now, unfortunately, but I think we’ll be able to get those out soon.

The crew has been a bunch of real troopers with all of the handweeding that has resulted from not being able to get into the field with a tractor.

Dad trimmed the garlic and moved it from the drying setup in the greenhouse to the dry cooler in the packing house. We run two coolers, one with high humidity for most of our crops, and one at low humidity for onions, shallots, garlic, and seeds.