The garden is in constant change. Crops grow, fill out, are harvested. New crops are planted and the cycle begins all over again. For me it is like an ever changing quilt of different colors, textures and shapes. After each rain, once the soil is dry enough to work Ken goes through and cultivates. Today he was using a wheel hoe and seemed to be …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has lettuce, salad greens, baby brassica greens, green onions, garlic scapes, radishes, herbs, asparagus, and strawberries. Field Notes. Sunday we got rain! It had been dry, and Ken put off irrigating in garden and field when he heard we could get up to 2 inches. He is still irrigating greenhouses as needed. Prior to Sunday’s rain he was racing around getting all he could done before the …
In addition to seeding and planting, this time of year has several maintenance tasks that Ken must attend to on a timely basis. There is mowing the electric fence in the field There putting up the pea fence so the peas can grow straight and picking is easier There is irrigating in greenhouses. Although there has been quite a bit of rain, it does not go into the …
