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2 watermelons (red or yellow flesh), 2 lbs of potatoes, 2lbs (or 3lbs ?) of cured red onions, turnips, some hot peppers, 4-5 green & red peppers, leafy greens, and 2 heads lettuce. The choices (pick 2) were: a long thin eggplant, chinese eggplants, fava beans (i think) or beets. The watermelons -- almost basketball size -- are the last of the season.
I am working backwards here: posting later entries rather than the earlier ones: I really hope I can catch up! This past week we started the planting cycle again. First we marked the 3 rows for planting with a 4ft wide hand-made wood row-measuring device, then hand planted some seeds, and finally covered them up with dirt using a hoe. Then we ran the plastic hoses alongside the newly planted rows, and checked for leaks. Then we covered the rows with a white fabric tarp. What I most remember was when I was concentrating on dragging the hoe carefully alongside the row, the ground "moved" as if I was mixing cement or working in mud. It was a disturbing optical illusion because the earth really seemed to move like a lava where I pulled the hoe. I need to research this phenomenon...
Watermelon, eggplants, potatoes, cured red onions, hot peppers, green & red peppers, leafy greens, beets, and lettuce. The quality is still top rate.
I spent about two hours weeding rows with a stirrup hoe. I’m guessing it was about a quarter of a mile in distance. I noticed a monarch butterfly worm on the dill. The cool crops (broccoli, fall squash) are growing well. Some of the previous crops have been turned in , and what was teeming with vegetation is now churned soil, ready for a rest or a cover crop. The farm has been expanded further behind the main plot, as the main plot will probably be rested next year.
Watermelon, Cantelope, eggplants, corn, potatoes, onions, hot peppers, green & red peppers, leafy greens, beets, and lettuce.
This week I spent creating new fence posts with a post crashing tool. The fence was because the perimeter of the farm had changed. The crop debris was turned in back in to the soil by the tractor, so what was full of vegetation is now back to barren soil, now for a cover crop. Then I went around putting peanut butter on the wire fence. I also harvested and washed scallions which can be very time consuming.
Wow. I haven’t updated this blog in three weeks. So much for my attempts to be a consistent writer. I guess it’s because there are more things on the farm I am used to doing rather than being introduced to.
I do remember seeing a praying mantis insect -- and then having Erin put him on my arm. Oh he’s friendly, she said, as he started to crawl up my arm to my shoulder. After I recovered from my fainting spell, he was no where to be seen, and I was sent home. (I didn’t really faint, but I was saying to get him off me through gritted teeth.. His alien head was really freaky...)
