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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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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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One of the interesting side effects of blogging the farm growth is having documented the week-by-week growth of individual plants. Seeing the plants every day, you miss how fast they grow (much like your kids). This was very apparent with the Lincoln Peas. The peas were the first seeds planted in the ground. Now they [...]
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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 [...]
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It’s been the perfect mix of sun and rain to give the vegetables a good start. A little more heat would help some of the plants (namely the peppers), but most things look good. Carrots The carrots were planted on a windy day. Good news, they’ve seeded and are growing nicely. Bad news, they aren’t [...]
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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 [...]
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This weekend was another great weekend to be working in the dirt. After a few long days of rain, the plants are looking great. Peppers The pepper plants went in the ground about two weeks early. I was fearful that they would not handle the 40 degree nights very well. The pepper plants made it! [...]
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This weekend transforms the farm from planting to growing. April 25th marks the average last frost date for the Chicagoland area. Certainly any good Midwesterner knows that averages mean almost nothing. It can snow Memorial Day weekend and be in the 70s for Thanksgiving. Regardless, I am taking the leap and declaring this weekend growing [...]
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Friday was an excellent day to be in the dirt. I’ll post on my plantings throughout the weekend. Until then, enjoy an April spring day on the farm.
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