Finally, some Rain
The rain finally came during the week. Just a trace on Thursday evening then a good storm moved through on Saturday night. Though we had to work in the mud, the rain was very welcome.
News from the Fields & Farm: We finished the garlic harvest and the garlic is in the upper greenhouse curing. We have started to deliver some of the newly harvested garlic and this week’s variety is Brown Tempest. This variety we have grown for many years and is very popular during our tasting events.
This week we stayed busy replanting the beds. Previous to the rain we had super-hot/humid weather. We do start early in the morning so that we can get the bulk of the field work done before it gets too hot to work.
The crew also has been busy weeding the beds to keep ahead of them taking over. We reseeded over 100 flats of veggies for future planting in the fields. This included lettuce, broccoli, escarole, beets, turnips, kohlrabi, cucumbers, Chinese cabbage. Once these flats are up and growing we move them in the beds in the field. This usually takes about three weeks.
We seeded in the beds, two varieties of beans and Oriental greens. We should have some nice baby greens next week from the previous planting.
The winter squash appear a bit spotty, probably due to it being too dry for a few weeks. We’ll give them another week and if they don’t turn around replanting is in order.
The zucchini are slowly producing as we mentioned last week. With the rain they should start taking off.
We have seeded additional golden beets in the field and the red beets should be ready to harvest in two weeks.
Fawn in the main field was found sleeping in the garlic.
Franklin Greenhouse Report: The newly seeded Oriental greens and radishes are doing really well. The pepper crop is almost ready to harvest and we hope that next week we can start delivering them. We hope the eggplant will be ready in 1-2 weeks. This is a bit later than last year but the plants do look like they will be really productive. The greenhouse tomatoes also are coming along nicely.
Weather report: Additional rain fell on Saturday evening, we received about 1”. The crops definitely perked up with this rain. While we were irrigating, they really need a good “soakin’ kind of rain.” There were a number of severe thunderstorm warnings issued late in the day on Saturday with a chance of hail. Luckily no hail with this storm at the farm.
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