What's everyone got planted?
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Permalink Reply by Greg on -
A bit behind most Southern states up here in Montana. Just finished the onions and leeks last night, with a little over 12,000 plants in plastic. One row of potatos under plastic mulch in the ground. Only around 700 tomato plants growing in the High tunnel, transplanted first week of April, another 4,300 in the greenhouse getting ready for the 2nd high tunnel and 1st of June outside planting. Cabbage, fennel, and more spuds going in this week, and just finished laying plastic mulch on 7 three hundred foot rows today to put them in. Planting the greenhouse with cucumbers, squash and some special pumpkins, as I have moved everything from the greenhouse (tomatoes, peppers) into the high tunnel between the growing rows.
We don't plant frost sensitive crops outside until the first week of June up here. The last two years we had a frost on June 10th, and June 11th the next year. So we plant sweet corn and pumpkins the first week of June, and have 40,000 sweet corn seeds going in, and 30,000 pumpkin seeds again this year.
Also the asparagus field needs its first picking tomorrow (actually today, but as I said, a bit behind), and will be picking about 120 pounds 3 times a week for a while.
Lots to do. I know this doesn't sound like a lot to some farms, but only my wife and I work here, and she is also a full time teacher. So we will be busy the next 180 days, then it is off to New Zealand to get our summer back again. (She is retiring this year)
Greg
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Permalink Reply by Mark Schindlbeck on -
Well here in WNY I have managed to plant a small amount of lettuce, Swiss Chard, and spinach in a small hoop house. Yesterday my wife and I managed to get on a couple of the gardens to pick rocks. The others either have standing water on them or wet spots. Have never been this late in planting. We now have 5 days of no rain coming and I am praying I can get caught up. I am thankful that I am not in the southern state where they are flooded or like parts of Texas, in a drought.
Prayers go out to all those farmers down south dealing with the floods.
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Permalink Reply by Jim Blair on -
Not much here in north central Iowa, normal year I would have radishes.green onions, and spinnach to harvest now this year a few green onions. 4 nights below freezing this past week. Froze off asparagus. lot of stuff in greenhouse waiting to go in if I can fine time to do so. Just built a single plant tranplanter
so if it works I hope it speeds it up. I'm another one man show.
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Permalink Reply by Chance Reid Thornton on -
May try to start pickin yellow squash this week which is on plastic here in North Carolina. Pepper and eggplant is looking good thus far. I am new on here so trying it out, I need a walk-in cooler to hold my produce does anybody have any information that may help me.
Chance
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Permalink Reply by Jack Ellis on
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We have a 4X6 walk-in cooler - actually a freezer that we converted to a cooler with an inline thermostat in the power supply - but it really doesn't hold very much stuff. It would be more efficient if we had a good system of stacking baskets. Our vegetable stand is open MWF and the cooler allows us to pick on T,TH &S instead of having to do so early in the morning on market days.
These units are readily available used in the restaurant industry. We are a non-profit church operation and one of our members did the electrical work on a new Subway here. He told the Subway people about our project and they gave us the old freezer. Normally, it would have been sold used. It's a Norco unit and I checked the price new - $8500!
East Texas is suffering the worst drought in my lifetime. Our corn, peas and potatoes are under well irrigation and are fine - but the toms, squash, cukes and peppers are in trouble. They're watered from a four-acre farm pond that's presently too low to pump. And 200 miles east of here they're having the flood of the century!!!
Jack
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Permalink Reply by August Mezzetta on -
I'm in Southwest, Florida. Started harvesting my tomatoes. Took Mr. Ellis's advice from last year and planted Celebrity plants. My first corn planting is not doing too well.But the seond planting in a different field is doing well. Peppers are struggling. Noticed late blight on the tomatoes. It may be from watering on top. Anyway, most of the fruit is picked. Thank you all for your inputs. August
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