Photos updated during the season – for previous season see the Flicker Albums – HERE
6/5 Heirloom tomato ready to trellis
6/5 Peppers in the hoophouse
6/5 swiss chard, corn, beets
6/5 mustard greens
6/5 summer squash and tomato
6/5 head lettuce and onion
6/5 peppers in the field
6/6 view to the NE
6/5 watermelon and cucumber
6/5 potato
6/5 baby lettuce mix
6/5 eggplant
6/5 – view to NE
6/5 spinach
6/5 baby kale
6/5 more kale starting
6/5 another planting of beets
6/5 2nd planting cucumber
6/5 another planting of lettuce
6/5 Basil and fall crops
6/5 heirloom tomatoes
6/5 peppers in the hoophouse
6/5 water damage after storm
too wet to go check on damage
6/1 evening – check on damage tomorrow
6./1 water is draining
6/1 – the aftermath
6/1 oh yes that is hail
6/1 – flooding river
6/1 – during the storm
6/1 – in the morning
makes this job a lot easier
5/28 our modified drip tape cart
push those seeds in Drew
starting corn – 2nd planting
5/28 corn planted!
5/28 transplanting corn
5/26 Kohlrabi planted!
5/26 planting kohlrabi
5/23 – field tomatoes planted!
5/23 – 2nd row planted!
5/23 grape tomatoes planted!
5/23 getting a soak before planting
5/19 peppers
5/19 Peppers loving it
5/19 heirloom tomatoes planted
5/19 Heirloom tomatoes
5/18 wagon full of translants
5/18 zucchini planted
5/18 yellow squash planted
5/18 -transplanting squash today
5/17 ready for heirloom tomatoes
5/17 Planting potatoes
5/17 potatoes
5/17 its a back breaker
5/17 planting potatoes
planting potatoes
seed potatoes
5/17 planting potatoes
5/15 Veggie field
tomatoes for the field
5/15 tomatoes and peppers
5/15 summer squash
500 pepper plants
5/15 peppers planted
5/15 ready for peppers
almost done
5/15 burning holes in ground cover
template for burning holes
new template for hole burning
5/14 done with raised beds – before the rain!
5/14 all beds ready – we beat the rain
5/14 equipment is working great
5/14 plastic mulch layer
5/14 planting lettuce
5/14 planting bok choy
5/14 landscape fabric ready
5/14 potato beds ready to go
5/14 field is looking great
5/14 hardening off summer squash
5/14 transplants waiting to go
5/14 ready for plants
5/14 rolled up side walls
5/14 new plastic
5/6 mix in compost & green sand
5/6 replaced wood for base and rail
5/6 prepping the soil
5/5 watermlon
5/5 re-potted yellow summer squash
5/5 Beets
5/5 eggplant and peppers
5/5 re-potted zucchini
5/5 eggplant & watermelon
5/5 hardening off transplants
5/5 tomatoes and; bok choy
5/5 tomatoes and; peppers
5/5 main veggie field
5/5 rhubarb
5/5 row cover over asian greens
all tucked in under row cover
flea beetles will devour
need to cover to protect
roll of row cover
5/5 beds seeded with radish, salad turnip
he is a natural born tiller
Marcus is doing a great job!
First tilling experience
Next generation in training
5/5 Farmer in training
5/1 – long long day on the tractor
5/1 tilling until dark – to beat the next rain
5/1 long day of tilling
5/1 keep on tilling; keep on tilling
5/1 Plot 1 -parsley, basil, kohlrabi, asian greens, radish, arugula
5/1 Plot 2 beets, corn, chard, radish, salad turnip
5/1 plot 4 tomato, squash, beans
5/1 – spinach will go here
5/1 spinach will go here
5/1
5/1 – Plot 7 winter squash, melons, cucumbers
5/1
5/1 – oh it smells so good
5/1 – Plot 7 – tilling in the cover crop
5/1 – finally able to work the soil
5/1 – cover crop
5/1 – first pass tilling
5/1 plants hardening off
5/1 lettuce
5/1 – rhubarb
5/1 summer squash, watermelon
5/1 tomato
5/1 re-potted peppers
5/1 tomato and bok choy
5/1 re-potted tomatoes
5/1 re-potted tomatoes
5/1 ;et the repot-a-thon begin!
5/1 watermelon
5/1 summer squash
5/1 repotted heirloom tomato
5/1 – draining is doing great
4/29 – beautiful day coming tomorrow
4/27 new wood, ground cover and tracks
4/26 – love these dragonflies
4/25 – keep it moving
4/25 – fill those pots
4/25 re-potting tomatoes
4/25 – re-potting
4/25 – let the re-pot-athon begin
4/24 replacing ground cover
4/ 24 ready for ground cover and wood
4/23 -removed rotted base wood
4/23 – those boards are rotted
4/23 – no more water
4/23 re-potted heirloom tomatoes
4/23 Bok Choy
4/23 Tomatoes
4/21
4/23 Eggplant
4/23 Watermelon
4/18 move that extra water
4/18 new drainage ditch
4/18 this is working great
4/18 new drainage ditch
new ditches already filling
4/18 drainage ditch
4/17 Mud Monsters!!!!
4/17 looks great – pipe is buried
that is a lot of pipe
4/17 notice slits in pipe to flow water out of field
It is a messy job and snowing
new drainage pipe
4/17 – 3 feet below
Intact clay pipe 12″ sections
4/17 old clay pipe broken
this is the problem – new drainage needed
crushed old clay pipe
4/17 3 ft below – pipe gets buried
easier than a shovel
excavator digging the trench
Water bubbling up
This water has to go!
Broken old clay pipe
4/17 Flooding
Great company!
4/13 re-potted peppers
4/13 heirloom tomato, bok choy
4/13 lettuce
4/13 swiss chard, lettuce
4/13 summer squash
4/13 seedling hoophouse
4/7 Onions
4/13 onions, leeks, scallions
4/13 celeriac, eggplant, tomato
4/7 Lettuce
4/7 Our seedling hoophouse
4/7 onions
4/7 onions
4/7 Onions
4/7 Lettuce
3/24 McEnroe Organic Potting Mix
3/24 McEnroe Organic Compost
3/18 Lettuce
3/18 onions
3/18 onions
3/18 swiss chard
3/18 Tomato
3/18 Lettuce
3/18 Peppers
3/18 Onions
3/9 swiss chard
3/8 70 degrees – warmer in here today
3/8 sprout baby sprout
3/8 Onions
3/8 oh yeah! swiss chard
3/8 starting seeds
