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Friday was a great day to be outside — upper 70s, cloudy and no rain. Everything but he corn is doing well. I don’t think I even took a picture as it still looks like grass. The corn should be about 3 feet or so by now and it is only about a foot. While [...]
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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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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 all in [...]
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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! The have [...]
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All of this talk about what I’m planting deserves a review of where I buy my seeds.
A couple of things that are important to me when I buy seeds. First, I want unique versions of the vegetables I grow — no standard grocery tomato for me. Second, I’d prefer an organic seed although with many [...]
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Based upon my complaints yesterday, mother nature listened and we received 1/3 inch of rain yesterday.
This picture was taken this morning and shows one of the square foot gardening plots moist after a good days rain (and the Cubs still got their game in — two wins!).
As I described yesterday, I’m trying square foot gardening [...]
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