Catalpa Ridge News–September 25, 2017

Autumn Arrived

As summer has refused to leave, being 90-degrees over the weekend, we will be transitioning into autumn soon enough. In preparation of the end of the season we finally finished covering the greenhouse with new plastic. The nice thing about this project was that with the high temperatures on Sunday and virtually no wind, the crew completed the recovering and when the colder temperatures come the plastic will have a super close fit.

We are looking at another two weeks of higher than normal temperatures and no rain is in the forecast.

This week the crew started disassembling the trellises from the cucumber patch that has stopped producing and brush hogged that and the first squash field in preparation of planting a cover crop before winter. The tomatoes in the same area are slowly decreasing production and we’ll probably start pulling up those trellises over the next week. The garlic beds are all prepared and we hope to plant around the middle of October.

We have had twin deer visiting us off and on during the summer. Luckily they are staying outside the fences. They do like to watch what we are doing. We also had another visitor on Sunday, a giant praying mantis decided to sit on the tractor and see what was going on!