Phew! Sorry for being out of touch recently, but we’ve been busy, busy, busy around here, as you might imagine. Crops are on track for the CSA to start in early July, pretty much like last year. I can’t quite say that we’re “caught up” with plantings and such, but I can say that we’re not too far behind and that what’s already out in the field is growing well and looking really great.
All of our potatoes are up, we’ve planted all of our tomatoes (and that’s no small feat: there’s a lot of ’em), we might start picking salad for farmers market and restaurants this week. Kale, broccoli, napa cabbage are all rockin’ out and growing in that rapid, satisfying way that they tend to. Oh! And our first planting of tomatoes is doing really well, too: there are some pea to golf ball sized tomatoes out there and we’re expecting some of them to start ripening in early-mid July. This is very exciting for us since we’ve never before had tomatoes before mid August.
I’m hoping to plant out some beets, fennel and calendula today, ahead of the rain that’s coming later this week.
And there was a moose in the field yesterday afternoon! I was cultivating all morning and went in for lunch around 1. After running some errands, I went back out around 4:30 and there were all of these gigantic deer tracks around the field! No damage to anything, except for a few poor potatoes that got mushed.