Dear All,
First frost! We brought in the guinea pigs house plants, picked the outside tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, winter squash and covered the beans and hot peppers and mixed greens and lettuce. Its always a special day to say good buye to the crops that will not make it and to promise them again to grow them next year. We will now focus on getting the 1600' of potatoes out and the beets and celeriac, may be check on the parsnips if they got sweet?
So we are giving out chard one more time and hope you enjoy it. And hoiw about those melons? I just wish we had them in July when it was hot. We got a high tunnel grant and are hoping to put it up this fall for next spring planting. I want to grow watermelons on trellises in it.
Looking forward: the CSA Friday group ends on October 10'th, Tuesday October 14'th. The winter CSA starts middle of November. We will be low on carrots, onions and no winter squash this year. We have plenty of yummy potatoes, beets, garlic, cabbage, celeriac, parsnips and of course sunchokes for those of you who like them. I will send out a n order form when we know more how much we have of the limited items.
This week we got up our second caterpillar tunnel for the zukes and cukes. We have a commitment to 40lbs of cucumbers and 20 lbs of zucchini and 20 lbs of summer squash to SLU and are experimenting with the tunnel. The first tunnel went on the tomatoes for you. Lets hope they keep coming. We have late blight but it is not moving fast through the tomatoes or potatoes. about 20% of the tomato fruit are lost from it so far and the frost took the other 80% last night, except for the tunnel.
First frost! We brought in the guinea pigs house plants, picked the outside tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, winter squash and covered the beans and hot peppers and mixed greens and lettuce. Its always a special day to say good buye to the crops that will not make it and to promise them again to grow them next year. We will now focus on getting the 1600' of potatoes out and the beets and celeriac, may be check on the parsnips if they got sweet?
So we are giving out chard one more time and hope you enjoy it. And hoiw about those melons? I just wish we had them in July when it was hot. We got a high tunnel grant and are hoping to put it up this fall for next spring planting. I want to grow watermelons on trellises in it.
Looking forward: the CSA Friday group ends on October 10'th, Tuesday October 14'th. The winter CSA starts middle of November. We will be low on carrots, onions and no winter squash this year. We have plenty of yummy potatoes, beets, garlic, cabbage, celeriac, parsnips and of course sunchokes for those of you who like them. I will send out a n order form when we know more how much we have of the limited items.
This week we got up our second caterpillar tunnel for the zukes and cukes. We have a commitment to 40lbs of cucumbers and 20 lbs of zucchini and 20 lbs of summer squash to SLU and are experimenting with the tunnel. The first tunnel went on the tomatoes for you. Lets hope they keep coming. We have late blight but it is not moving fast through the tomatoes or potatoes. about 20% of the tomato fruit are lost from it so far and the frost took the other 80% last night, except for the tunnel.
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News from the cow. We brought Carol home Tuesday last week after hanging out with boyfriend Turbo for 3 1/2 weeks. Aparently they snuggled and were cozy, but two days after she was home Carol went into heat and mooed our heads off and only had 1/2 gal milk. We called for the artificial insaminator, but since we are a small farm they did not make it out that day and we missed another cycle. Little Daisy also comes int heat now at five month. She is tuning into a sweet rambunctious teenager. Her voice changed to a deep moo and she challenges us to play butting heads. I had to show her who is boss and she accepts that, but Kira is still intimidated by it. I smile when I have to show Kira who is boss when she tries to refuse to go to bed in the evening. teenagers....
Ducks are no pick nick! We had lost three of four ducks this summer and chocolate buttons is very lonely and quacks at us all the time. We got her two Mallard friends from out neighbor Isis. They flew out of their pasture and did not hang out with our duck. In the evening Steve and Kira found them roosting 15' up in the air on the telephone wire. Steve pushed them of with a pole caught one and stuck it in the duck pen while our duck ran out again and off with the the mallard into the dark. The next day the duck flew away and chocolate buttons was alone again. We are now waiting for some runner ducks. Kira is wondering if the different ducks speak different languages? We will keep you posted.
All the best,
Dulli
Ducks are no pick nick! We had lost three of four ducks this summer and chocolate buttons is very lonely and quacks at us all the time. We got her two Mallard friends from out neighbor Isis. They flew out of their pasture and did not hang out with our duck. In the evening Steve and Kira found them roosting 15' up in the air on the telephone wire. Steve pushed them of with a pole caught one and stuck it in the duck pen while our duck ran out again and off with the the mallard into the dark. The next day the duck flew away and chocolate buttons was alone again. We are now waiting for some runner ducks. Kira is wondering if the different ducks speak different languages? We will keep you posted.
All the best,
Dulli
