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Last week was fairly similar to the two before it, but yielded even more cucumbers (six in each box) and cantaloupe (two or three in each box). When I wasn’t harvesting, I was ripping off egg-covered cucurbit leaves and pulling up old squash plants in an attempt to give those pesky bugs less of a [...]
As August comes to a close, it’s time for me to start thinking of soil tests and cover crops and leaving the farm for the winter. But it’s hard to concentrate on all of that when the house is filled with the smell of cucumbers and cantaloupe! The cucumbers were hard to start, with seeds [...]
I’ve known since the spring that I would save whatever seed I could, to encourage self-sufficiency in whatever areas I could. Last week I brushed up on my seed-saving skills with this video, and then got to work processing the bundles that had been drying in the greenhouse. Below, some photos of the process. Click [...]
The contents of this week’s box: zucchini, summer squash, eggplant, three pints cherry tomatoes, one pint heirloom tomatoes, one pint tomatillos (the first of the season), two onions, one bunch garlic, mint and okra. Declining squash harvests are still a disappointment, but I noticed new growth all week, including the ripening of a couple of [...]