Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, potatoes, celery, cucumber, zucchini, onions, garlic, carrots, melon, basil and parsley Filed Notes. Ken is always thinking ahead! Monday he started moving chicks and chickens. He has several batches of chicks at varying ages. He is making room for the newer hens in one of the portable coops. The young roosters – cockerels – will go in the north coop. He has moved the larger …
Both Ken and I like pesto. Depending on what green herb we have in good supply Ken may make basil – parsley, or dill or cilantro or a blend. Yesterday he started with basil and parsley – this is an Italian flat leaf variety He cleaned garlic and ran the green herbs and garlic through the food processor with olive oil. He packs jars, tops with some olive …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, onions, basil, beans, carrots, and parsley Field Notes. Planting, mulching, and harvesting continue. As the days shorten this becomes more of a juggling act! Ken picks several crops like tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, etc several times a week; that takes a chunk of time. He spent part of Sunday making next year’s compost. In the midst of all this I …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has salad and braising greens, garlic scapes, green onions, snap peas, beets or carrots, European turnips, herbs, the last of the asparagus Field Notes. Green manures and mulch. Ken is juggling the usual sequential plantings of greens, tying up tomatoes, irrigating the greenhouses, cultivating with a push to get areas either planted with green manures or mulched. Green manures are like living mulch – they lessen …
What a beautiful summer day! Ken is busy with tasks he wants to finish before the rain that is forecast on Tuesday. He is busy preparing beds for green manure. He is also “slaying weeds” on this sunny day and preparing other soil for mulching before the rain and more weeds germinate. Mulch will lessen weed pressure on the crops and moderate soil temperatures to promote microbial life. I made a snap pea salad …
