Happy Pea Picking….
Dean, Joe, and Roger getting the last of the sugar peas picked:)
A bucket of peas from the harvest… now a lot of shucking before these peas can be frozen for the winter:)
Spent the morning staking all of the tomatoes… They are so happy, healthy, and strong now!!!
Look at these amazing herbs… We had a very busy Sunday planting the last of the winter cabbage and fall lettuces…
Also hoed and weeded all of the onions
The fields are looking amazing and this weather is helping to get hot, and then rain and then get hot… grow fast little plants…
Posted by Ashley | Posted in The Fields | Posted on 03-06-2012
Joe and his magic soil sifting machine that he was using to plant some carrot seeds…
Little baby basil after a watering
Very happy and healthy sweet potato vine…
Happy little tomato plants snuggled warm under their black blanket to keep them warm and the weeds away
So thankful for this amazing weekend… and lots of great help today… Joe, Amy, Ashley , Linda, John, Darryl, Mike, Cassie… and Guinness were all such good workers…
Planted
-288 tomato plants – early girls, beefsteaks, big boys, lemon yellows, and roma
-280 pepper plants – red, green, sweet yellow and Hungarian wax
– 48 green celery
– 44 kohlrabi
– 52 various herb plants
– 36 summer squash
-36 zucchini plants
Lots of work… and lots of fun… just a little bit of sunburn…
The fields before the plants went in… ground all tilled up and soft for the baby plants to go in…
We had a very productive weekend of planting this past weekend… Even with the weather near the 90’s in May … Help us for what August might look like …
Saturday we got 200 pounds of seed potatoes in the ground..100 pound of reds.. 50 of whites… fingerlings…. and russets….
Can’t wait to get to eat all of these little guys… and potatoes keep so well over the winter… Yumm
Joe just getting off the tractor look at the beautiful turned over earth in the background..
The earth has been turned over in some large fields…
Planted check
Onions
Garlic
Lettuces
Cauliflower
Some Herbs:)
Green Beans
it looks like the spring weather is going to favorable this year, we are very optimistic about getting plantings in early!!!
Look close and you will see the green tops of onion poking up though the dirt…
rows of more onions not quite out of the soil yet…
The man behind the vegetable magic… Mr. Joseph Leo Meyer… If you look close you can see his two green thumbs… here he is just tending to the soil by hand…
Who would have thought we would need shorts in MARCH in WESTERN NY… Well the weather is lovely…. Joe got to clean up some fields this week and even turned over the first areas of dirt… the fresh sweet smell of dirt in March is pretty awesome….
The CSA slots are filling up fast now, if you are interested in joining for this year check the link to the right…
Thanks goodness for this drop in the weather..It makes for perfect sap running to make that delicious Maple Syrup… We were in the woods all day Friday boiling sap into Syrup… It did not run this weekend… But if it warms up like it says we will see more full sap buckets this week…
