Been Pretty Busy on the Farm

Well, the seedling did well in the Community Gardens Greenhouse and we moved them to the farm.

Here's all that needs to go into the ground soon.

We had a rainy, unusually cold Memorial Day weekend and that gave me a chance to plant onions, leeks and shallots. 

Grass-like stalks are onions - started in the house under lights in mid-February.

While, this weekend offers mid-July weather, which has made the peas, spinach and broccoli raab rather unhappy. 

Peas under cover to protect from rabbits.  Now, the cover is off so they don't over heat. 

Aforementioned crops like the cooler days of spring and mid-90s will prove difficult. All the protective row cover had to come off.  I will hope the rabbits are not interested!  Meanwhile, the heat produced flowers on the spinach and that means it is ready to go to seed.

This week, we got squash, melons, cucumbers, sweet potatoes  planted and still working on planting the tomatoes.

Cucumbers about to go under cover to protect from the cucumber beetle

Sungold  cherry tomatoes planted!  Have to wait until mid-July to taste them.

Fingerling potatoes popping through and now it is getting time to weed.

Planting Chard, Carrots and Lettuce

I planted on a day when we expected rain. 

Well, the rain never arrived.  So today, I watered this first bed of 140 feet.  Last year this bed held potatoes, but in practicing crop rotation, I have put the potatoes far away in hopes of deterring pests and disease.

At the top of the bed, is lettuce mix under some shade that will be picked at the end of June.  While in the middle you will find carrots, they may be ready in the beginning of July.  The chard will be ready in late June or early July.  Most of my planting has been started in the greenhouse, more about that later. 

Planting Potatoes with Help from Family and Friends

Jude and Kamal planting French Fingerlings before the rain starts again.

In between the raindrops,we got most of the potatoes in the ground this weekend.  I still have some Russian Bananas to plant.

French Fingerling Smoked Paprika and Gouda frittata

  Above is lunch for Sunday's help.  Luckily for us, some of the fingerlings did not sprout (hence not good seed) so we ate them. 

Five double rows completed.

The field is still wet so we could not use the rototiller.  All was done by human power.  I was dreaming of a draft horse or an ox to help us with this.