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 …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has lettuce, spinach, salad mix, beet thins, French breakfast radishes, green onions, asparagus, and herbs. Field Notes. The word for the week is PLANTING! Ken has been busy on two fronts: moving up seedling for future greens and crops, and getting roots like potatoes, leeks, seeding in carrot and beet and burdock root. There is also the maintenance tasks – with …
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 …
Each fall we move produce from the field, sort and store several crops for winter use: potatoes, carrots, beets, radishes, kohlrabi, rutabagas in the root cellar, and squash, onions, and garlic in cool, dry storage. Yesterday I started burying roots in sand. We find they store best if taken from soil, trimmed and placed in barrels with sand as quickly as possible. When we dig them out each winter harvest day they as close to …
