Catalpa Ridge News–August 28, 2017

Cooler Temperatures

Cooler Temperatures and low humidity was the weather of the week. We had much nicer working conditions and alot of field work was accomplished. We harvested the potatoes (red, white & blue varieties). Blue potatoes will be in this week’s delivery. We did loose 2 rows due to excessive rain over the past month.

The greenhouse work progressed, with Michael tackling the repairs. We wanted to cover the greenhouse with new plastic over the weekend but new structural problems arose so we hope to get it accomplished by next weekend. Since the repaired greenhouse is on the list to recover we thought as we might as well cover the other upper greenhouse.

Our recent squash planting is coming along really well and in about 2 weeks we should have a bumper crop of zucchini. The winter squash and pumpkins have not bounced back with all the rain, though we should be able to harvest some.

About 2 months ago during a period of excessive rain, we lost a major part of the main field due to erosion (a min-grand canyon!). We finally were able to put this field back together again. Using our tractor we back filled the area with wood chips and was able to move the soil around to remediate the field. The way the weather looks we hope to have this field primed up for next year’s plantings.