6/21/2011 Our Onion Bed!We are very proud of our onion bed this year. The key: intensive weeding! Again with the weeding- for onions to thrive, the bed must be weeded! Great! More bending over or kneeling to pinch off all of the little weeds before their roots get so entangled with the onions bulbs that when you weed you pull out your baby onion bulb! Mulching with straw helps, but is not 100% weed proof. Good old hand weeding is the only way to go! We can safely say that we will get many more onions this year than last, and hopefully they will be quite a bit larger! Next year, we would like to tackle a garlic bed- we just have to get it together this fall to plant them! Stay tuned for more Vegetable Pics! Thank you to everyone who found something scrumptious to bring home with them from the Farm Stand this weekend! This week, we wanted to share some more pictures about how the garden is progressing. Pictured is our corn stalks- not that many of them, about 20 stalks are growing, but its our first time! We hope we can bring some ears of corn to the Farm Stand later in the season. Below, our braising greens- beautiful, aren't they! Little baby leaves packed with great nutrients! And of course, our mixed salad greens are still growing strong, so we will keep bringing you our delicious salad greens! Enjoy the week! Keep checking out the blog for more pictures of the garden growing! 6/8/2011 Hot Day!It is the hottest day so far this year and I have retreated to safety. Cooking in the heat while watering, digging, weeding and tending to the demands of the ducks I was defeated by 2pm today. Hiding behind glass with the blasting of the AC here is your garden up date.
Now in are second week of June and the Pole beans are reaching and the squash has sprouted nicely with the great weather we have been having. Cut worms have been doing there best to fell our young plants peppers in which we have had to replant quit a few of. The infamous Potato Beetles have been making short work of our tomatillo plants and I am seriously thing of pulling them out before it gets out of control. Over it has been a great start to summer we have been harvesting Kale, Radishes, Green Onions and Mix Greens. The farm stand will be full this weekend so be sure to stop by. 5/19/2011 Produce is in the Farm Stand, Enjoy!New! Select your own eggs for your dozen!
Fresh out of our greenhouse we have produce for you to enjoy. The Farm Stand will be open Thurs-Sunday 10am - 8pm New additions to the Farm Stand this week!: French Radishes $1.00 a bunch A mild tasting Radish that doesn't over power your salad. Six to seven radishes in a bunch with their greens. Mixed Salad Greens $3.00 a bag Baby greens with a light spicy flavor. Curly and Dinosaur Kale $2.00 a bunch Bunches are in 2 serving sized bunches to help reduce waste. Pick Your Own Eggs $3.00 a dozen. ( Lg., Sm., Blue, White, Brown and Duck; pick your mix ) 5/2/2011 A Planting WeekendTeresa and I planted the Kale plants we started this winter in the garden this Saturday. Yes, they are very close together we planted a additional 5 plants in what would be normally 4 plant spacing. Come June we will harvest the additional 5 plants and allow the 4 correctly spaced plants to fill out. Sunday morning the Onion sets went in and with only 14 days to the last frost date we are working hard to get the beds ready for the veg. This time of year just flies, you don't notice the date until it's the 4th of July. Any ways here are some pics.
4/25/2011 Onion Sets Have Arrived.We just received our onion set from Johnny's Seeds. Now we just need to get them in the ground and a little warm weather.
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Teresa Fuller
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