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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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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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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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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Also an early planting is Spinach.
Last year I planted Bloomsdale Spinach from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange which turned out great. Hearty leaves and great taste. This year, in an effort to try some “classic” versions of vegetables, I tracked down a french spinach from the mid-1800s.
Spinach is a core crop. Starting with the last [...]
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