Week 3 in the books

Meet this week’s vegetables:Bok Choy, Head Lettuce (Romaine, Batavian), D’avignon Radishes, Baby Beets, Broccoli, Curly Kale, Spring Bunching Onions

I should not have said a word.  About 6 weeks ago I was calling for less rain and more sun, now in May we have sunny days, fluctuating temps, and absolutely minimal precipitation.  Embrace the game I say.  Luckily, we are keen on irrigation, so our plants are sucking up well water as I type.  I am a little late on this post but that is because the field has been a calling.  Last week we had a flush of beautiful broccoli crowns that decided to peak right when the weather hit 93 degrees.  None the less, we had a silly-good spring broccoli harvest.  There was plenty to go around for the CSA and our restaurants to enjoy…

Today, Sean and I had quite an epic tomato morning.  We put yet another succession of heirlooms in the ground, and went through quite a trellis battle in the hoophouse crop.  Like many other farmers and probably many of you, I keep priority lists that I intend to get through but never can seem to complete.  Trellising tomatoes is one thing that has gotten passed up on the list for the passed 10 days.  Well, that means as we finally got around to take care of the needed task this morning it took twice the amount of time that is should have had I been on top of it a few days ago.  But now they are nice and upright, and tomatoes are in our near future.  Yes sir.

Tractor Gospel

‘Sometimes’ is a strange times to feast.

Collards, Carrots, COMPANY.

Snag a beer, pick a tune, cook a beast.

Your farmer, Jack Matthews