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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.
Cilantro
The cilantro [...]
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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 here. [...]
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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 bolts or [...]
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A photo historical of the last three weeks of Rocky Top Lettuce.
Three Weeks Ago
Last Week
This Week
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The farm is in full growth. Below is a large selection of pictures from all across the farm.
Peas
The peas are looking good. You can see from the photos that they need some training to work their way up the trellis. But I’m confident they are good learners.
Tomatoes
The tomatoes are coming up slowly but surely. They [...]
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It’s a great day to be out in the dirt. Here’s where we are today.
Spinach
The spinach is looking great. We’re at about week 3 with the spinach above. It’s not yet considered “baby” spinach — maybe a week to 10 days more. It’s about 2 inches high. There are about 3 sets of 8 plants [...]
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What a great day for a market! When I don’t have anything to pick yet in the garden, it’s time to go to the farmer’s market. Today’s stop, the Green City Market.
If you follow @GreenCityMarket on Twitter, you were notified that Cannon Drive was closed this morning for the Wrigley “Start Early Run” Race. Walking [...]
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It’s the second day of lettuce planting — you’d think I would have an acre of lettuce, but it’s just about 15 square feet. Yesterday, I planted European Mesclun Salad. Today it is another mix from Baker Creek Farms – Rocky Top Lettuce Salad.
Rocky Top is probably the least descriptive seed I’ve bought. From Baker [...]
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More seeds went in the ground today and more tomorrow. Today I planted a lettuce mix.
As a home farmer, growing single types of lettuce can get boring. The fun of growing at home is growing a number of varieties that you wouldn’t necessarily buy for yourself. This year, I’m planting two mixes of lettuces [...]
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