Great Two Days of Growing Weather!

Great Two Days of Growing Weather!

Spent the last two days intensively taking advantage of the pristine weather opportunities at the farm. The baby lettuce is starting to catch up with the scheduled timing of size. The strawberries have officially been reclaimed from the weeds that flourished during the weeks of rain and are flowering nicely with green berries. The apple trees have received their first spraying of a kaolin based protectant to help deter the "not so welcomed" pests. Though the tomatilloes( still in the cold frame) are not ready to take the strength of night temps at this farm-they are already flowering, yay! Spinach, chard and kale varieties had to be reseeded in the ground as the mice were real hungry and found a drive by veggie start pit stop. I had done these twice before in seed trays and finally gave up. I would see the seedlings appear and then the next day or two later, they were getting nibbled down. With the hopes of coming back I brought them to the outdoors and covered them with plastic and another barrier but they were too far eaten down to make any sense of them. The other direct seeded chard, spinach, beets that were done 2 months ago are just as big as what I direct seeded again a month later. The gourmet salad mix is a slow gower as well. Some of the pre-grown onion starts I had added to the regular onion starts that were planted a while back, to my surprise, are going to seed already???? When the temps go from high to low back and forth sometimes the plant is tricked in to making seeds. Luckily most of them are not doing this, just some. The peas should begin flowering now and just are not.....they will be ready later rather than sooner.
To sum this up things are delayed by at least a week of target harvest on account of the weather. I will touch base with you all in another week or so to see if we need to delay the 22 week subscriptions pick up. The subscribers who are starting later in the harvest season, things will be alot more predictable as far as greens are concerned. Let's all be happy for the sun and pray for more!!!
Til later :)
Clark County Farmerette

Posted by Battle Ground Farmers Market at 6:26 PM