Hello Everyone:
It's been a busy several weeks, with plenty of unfinished work keeping me from putting up anew post. Here it is...
In the news: We are at the McDonalds Corners Fair Saturday September 30th. We have a sales stand there, and several items of our produce entered in the competition. Hope to see you there!
At long last - one month late - our peppers are finally coming into their own. With lots of patience, I have beeen able to coax the colors out.
Here we have the little orange picnic peppers (very sweet), the long Italien frying peppers, also known as Shepherds peppers (sweet and rich flavour), the somewhat small green to red bell pepper King of the North, the large green pepper Olympus, and the gree to yellow bell pepper Milena.
Our last round of lettuces dodged a bullet with a light rost last week. I was out at 5:30 in the morning hosing the frost of the cold sensitive plants. Ordinarily I would have covered everything with row covers, but a chance hearing of the weather orecast after supper (at 9 in the evening) I elt tootired to go out and stumble around inthe dark getting frustrated. So I went out and drained the hoses and placed bats of straw over the taps to keep them from reezing. And set the alarm for very early. Long day...
The extraordinarily dry weather is hurting everything on the farm, though the kidney beans curing in the field are an exception.
As the leaves continue to fall of, the pods are exposed to more sunlight and dry out enough for harvest.
Our kidney beans are much liked by our customers, far more lavourful than the store bought alternative.
Here is our cabbage. If it develops it head, these will be ready for delivery in November sometime.
I also might have some turnip next month as well,though much willdepend on wether we recieve enough sunlight for the root to develop.
These are two crops that will improve their flavour with exposure to frost.
