Archive for the Updates from the Garden Category

Tomatoes are starting, along with cucumbers, peppers, summer squash, potatoes, and everything else we grow. It’s the season of bounty that we are offering to you as our “second season” puts forth an incredible quantity of goodness. The Mirai sweet corn is sizing up and will be […]

It’s another transition time. . . again. Two rows of potato vines died down which tells us its time to harvest. So, Ben put on the “V” plow and tore through the rows. It’s much easier to do this instead of forking. Then we walk the rows […]

Greetings from the Gardens, Seeds (peppers, eggplant, basil and tomatoes) have been planted and then again “planted up” under grow lights to ensure lots of good picking for every one. They have now been again planted up for the second time into 4” pots. This buys us […]

Our week of spring weather was a perfect chance to get some spring crops into the ground. Three beds of peas, two of carrots, parsnips and rutabagas for the fall, a bed of spinach, salad turnips, radishes, raised beds of arugula, mixed Asian greens, mizuna, and leaf […]

Greetings from the Gardens, Gardens? What gardens? Luckily they’re hiding under the very protective snow cover. Snow with all the little air pockets, provides the best cover, so we’re grateful that the snow preceded the bitter cold. I think Midwestern fruit trees might struggle through this winter. […]

With another beautiful week behind us, we feel like we’re making progress on putting the farm to bed. But there is a lot still going on and lots of picking available. The lettuces are beautiful, the spinach easy to pick, turnips, kohlrabi, carrots and a few potatoes […]

How many things can you do with tomatoes? It’s time to find out. We did a clean pick Saturday because it was supposed to colder than tomatoes like it. This will keep the ripening process continuing. Last year, September 22, today was the first frost and total […]

We’ve had a busy week harvesting the bounty. There is a hay wagon of watermelons with gorgeous color. We have Sunshine, with a yellow meat, Orangeglo, yes, it’s orange inside, a yellow skinned beauty with red meat, and the standard Crimson Sweet. Many are a nice size […]