I’m not going to market tomorrow. There’s enough ready to harvest for my local customers but not enough for market too. I’m surprised at how well plants are growing. The potatoes are beautiful and putting on blossoms, broccoli is heading up nicely, lettuces are doing well. Unfortunately the pigweed and hairy galinsoga are growing faster. [...]
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I bought a 1600 sq ft hoophouse this afternoon. When I called about it a few days ago I missed it by a couple of hours. The seller kept my name and number just in case and fortunately for me, just in case happened. It will be delivered in a few hours! This brings our [...]
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Thanks to CeeCee for giving me the Honest Scrap Award! It’s a great day to stay out of the heat, humidity, black flies, mosquitoes, horse flies and moose flies, and do this instead. I tag anyone who hasn’t done this yet and wants to do it now.
The Honest Scrap award only has a couple guidelines. [...]
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Broccoli. The heads we picked this evening are 8″ across. The broc and cucumbers shown here were grown in the unheated greenhouse. They were planted in April.
Still a baby at 4″.
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I’m back to being the sole farmer so I’m trying to get organized. There are things I want this year – a packing shed, refrigeration, another unheated greenhouse. If I stay organized and focused I’ll have them all by the end of the year.
Red has not yet been finished.
Water Greenhouses
Move stuff to seedling house for [...]
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….with people asking, “Is it true?”
Yes, it’s true. Domtar is reopening the Woodland mill on June 22. Steve is going back to work tomorrow. Some are already back. He’s in the middle of a project at his interim job and doesn’t want to leave it unfinished. Let the chaos begin – the man thrives on [...]
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The first acre is almost planted, need to see Paul about the second. HTH am I going to manage two acres, go to market, supply a sporting camp and a store and sleep? Seedlings are almost sold out. Whatever doesn’t sell this weekend is going in the ground or compost pile. Did I say the [...]
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