Today’s Radish Harvest. Quite nice for the height of the summer.
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Farming
July is the height of farm season requiring more work than probably any other month — at least in Chicago. With the sun shining, enough rain to keep all of the plants happy, and many, many happy weeds, I have had little time to write. Here is what’s going on: Peas They are done! Next [...]
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Live from the Farm: First Garlic Harvest Originally uploaded by Farmer_Jay
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Between the rain and the heat, the weeds have outgrown many of the vegetables! Here is this week’s photoset: Peas This is it! Pea season is officially over. I pulled a number of peas off the vines today. They taste great. I got about 5 peas for each plant. No fertilizer, just weeding and watering. [...]
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With the inches and inches of rain this week, it was both hard to get any work done and a great week for growing. Here is this weeks harvest: In the harvest is peas, spinach, rocky top lettuce, radishes, and cilantro. Here is what’s going on around the farm: Lincoln Peas Pea harvest season is [...]
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Live from the Farm: Water Logged Chard The rain recently has done wonders for the plants, but this swiss chard plant can’t take it. I haven’t checked the actual count, but I’m guessing we received about 3 inches of rain today. No flooding in the beds though.
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It was a great day for pictures on the farm this past Friday. Cilantro Wow, the cilantro is growing strong. I’ve picked a number of bunches of cilantro today. Too bad the tomatoes aren’t ready to go as they would make great salsa. The cilantro smells so good. This is slow bolt cilantro. Cilantro [...]
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Who ate my radish?
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Live from the Farm: Cilantro Originally uploaded by Farmer_Jay The cilantro patch in full bloom.
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Live from the Farm: Radish Originally uploaded by Farmer_Jay Look at the size if the radishes this week! About 2 inches in diameter.
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