Thoughts of an Urban Farmer
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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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Who ate my radish?
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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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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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My second harvest of the season.
Today I pulled out a number of radishes (they keep coming every day!), a little bit of spinach, and plenty of italian parsley. I’ll write more about it later, but the parsley over-wintered and dropped seeds all over the place so I’m finding parsley in the oddest locations. I’m going [...]
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Much to my amazement, I pulled out the first vegetable of the season (at a very early May 19, 2009). (A radish)
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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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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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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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