Wind, frost and other fine spring events!
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.
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