LITTLE PEACE FARM


DONA NOBIS PACEM

 

Mailing list sign-up




Blog archives
Recent Comments
Keith Manmiller said, "I made my first trip to the farm this past Tuesday. The selection..." »

Sharon Salvadore said, "I met some of the lovely family at Amelia's store this week. How..." »

Tom and Eydie said, "Hi, folks. You have a most enjoyable, informative website...." »

Tom Schmoyer said, "We were members of Erica Bowers CSA for the past 2 years. She is..." »

Taryn & Ed said, "Everything last season was wonderful! We can barely wait for thi..." »

<< Back to main

Wind, frost and other fine spring events!

5/12/2010 8:44pm by Michael Scheidel

Wind

Well good folks, after the wind we just got pounded with for the past few days I am glad for some calm.  All of our garlic is leaning south/south-east.  A neighbor with the finest of farm equipment layed plastic down for my rows of tomatoes, over half of which I had to hand shovel after the wind ripped them up!  The wind blew the roof off of our egg-mobile which I found and repaired moments before leaving for a big t-ball game.  But thankfully nothing disastrous happened, just some character building.

Frost

Our strawberries look great but the trick is to keep them looking that way for as long during the season as possible!  After that windy front moved through we had two nights of freezing or below freezing temps.  Luckily the first night was breezy enought to keep the frost off.  The second night, with the help of Jerry, we got most of the plants covered.  I believe we saved lots of blossoms that would have otherwise been zapped by the frost.  I am not worried about anything else in the field because everything else I have out can tolerate a frost.  When it looks like we're in the clear I will plant all of my first tomatoes, melon, squash, peppers, and such.

In the field...

Here's some of what we have in the ground so far; 7 or 8 varieties of head lettuce, two lettuce and one mesculin mix, spinach, two varieties of peas, fava beans, sweet corn, garlic and strawberries, spring onions, carrots and beets, scallions, shallots, kale chard....I'm boring most of you aren't I.  Well let's just say I'm very busy planting as we've tripled our growing space from last year.

Markets

We are just a couple of weeks away from our Pottsville and Allentown markets to begin.  The Pottsville market will again feature 4 growers and I'm not sure still about Allentown.  Our CSA pick up begins the first week in June as well so get ready for some greens!  We are also offering our early produce here at the farm on Saturdays until the markets begin.  Give us a call for details. 

Farewell for now.

ms

lpf

0 Comments »
Leave a Comment
Your email address will not be posted to the public and we will not send any emails to the provided address except in direct reply to this comment.




Captcha* This question is used to make sure you are a human visitor and to prevent spam submissions.
Check this box to receive updates by email when
new comments are added to this item.