This year has been wetter than anything we can remember! While we haven’t had huge rain events that drop 2 plus inches at a time, the rains have been perfectly spaced to keep the ground just wet enough for us to have a hard time keeping up with field prep and planting and weeding! It’s a little messy and is honestly keeping me from scheduling a field walk for our CSA members! Y’all would just see a lot of mud and thistle and grass sadly!
Weeding the grass out of these sweet potatoes is a huge priority—but we have to fit it in between harvesting and planting!
Hydroponic sweet corn anyone??
Installing landscape fabric between our melon, cucumber and zucchini beds is proving to be our best idea of 2025. You can see the mat of weeds on either side of these melon beds and can imagine that’s what it would like between the melon beds without this landscape fabric!
We reseeded our winter squash planting because the seedlings pictured on the trailer are getting too big/old to plant and we don’t have beds ready for them now anyway! The tomatoes in the wheelbarrow didn’t get planted. We ran out of room in the hastily made area for our second planting and had to choose which variety got skipped. We planted red slicer, orange heirloom and Juliet grape tomatoes and decided to forgo the Speckled Roman paste tomatoes. We also had room for shishito peppers, sweet Italian peppers and half of the red bells we intended to plant. You can see how huge and stressed the plants are. The solanum seedlings were outside waiting to be planted so long that the tomato hornworm moth flew around, laid eggs, the eggs hatched, and we had to pluck off dozens of the caterpillars happily eating the seedlings!
We have had successes between the setbacks! Last week we did have a chance to harvest our garlic
Our garlic crop will dry out/cure and be distributed throughout the rest of the season! Last year we had a complete garlic crop failure so this is a huge win for this year!
If it gets too wet cabbage heads can split so we focused on harvesting them after a rainfall when we couldn’t do the original plan of planting. We harvested 2 bulk bins of perfect cabbage and these will hold for distribution throughout July.
Since we made the move to the “What’s in Box” email for weekly communications, I thought I would list vegetables linked with their veggie info page that have been going out in recent weeks so members can get further instruction on some of the more uncommon veggies.
Hooray for garlic this year! We’ve had you in our thoughts, what with the seemingly endless rainfall. We are so grateful for your family, for the committed crew that works with you, and for the marvelous produce you are raising. We are truly blessed to have this local food and know it’s grown cleanly and sustainably. Go you!!!
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Hooray for garlic this year! We’ve had you in our thoughts, what with the seemingly endless rainfall. We are so grateful for your family, for the committed crew that works with you, and for the marvelous produce you are raising. We are truly blessed to have this local food and know it’s grown cleanly and sustainably. Go you!!!