Wow, 2 months since my last post! Between finishing up with grad school, keeping up with the garden, home church, and graduation, and family in town, it's been a busy few months.
Today a bunch of us got together to work out at Cauble Farms. We've eaten up all of the broccoli, cauliflower, red & bibb lettuce, collards, arugula, and cabbage, and are nearly done with the chard, onions, and strawberries (the latter of which have been really slow to produce). In their place we have planted tomatoes, green peppers, hot peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, zuchinni, blueberries, raspberries, watermelon, cantelope, as we have pulled things over the last couple months. We still have a few things going from our original planting, including wildflowers, herbs, and leeks.
Today's work included lots of harvesting, weeding, putting up shade cloth (on the frames Josh & Aaron built a couple of weeks ago), planting black eyed peas as a cover crop until the fall, putting up a few bamboo tripods for the tomatoes to climb, mulching around some of the mature plants, and fertilizing to help increase the production of the flowering plants and cut down on pests that are munching on some of the eggplant and other plants.
crazy cucumber (tastes great!)
Flower bed, Shade cloth & tunes (today provided by: Crazy Joe & The Mad River Outlaws, Michael Franti & Spearhead, and Swell Season)
Shade cloths to help cut down on the noon-day sun.
Ryan spreading some mulch
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