Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has lettuce, spinach, salad greens, braising greens, radishes, green onions, asparagus, and herbs Field Notes. Since we have had drier weather, Ken has been busier than ever! Many things are behind the usual planting schedule. He has been planting and transplanting: onions in the garden, greens in the garden and by the mobile tunnel, sweet potatoes in the field, replanting washed out carrot seed, watching the beans …
The mobile high tunnel is now over the heat loving summer crops. And even though we have gotten lots of rain recently, very little of it goes into the greenhouse – even when Ken opens it up all the way. So, Ken irrigates the plants. He moves hoses and uses an irrigation pump to get water from the irrigation pond to the plants Then the water moves from his trenches between the plants to …
Geese are part of the crew here. They not only eat grass, provide us with eggs in spring and meat in fall, they also act as a back up to our canine security system. They only time they are aggressive is when they have eggs or babies to protect This spring the first batch is growing quickly. Although they aren’t fully feathered out, they are no longer the roly poly puffy downy balls …
