GREAT NEWS… We were able to get most of our cover crops seeded Friday September 25th. We were hoping to have everything seeded on Thursday but rain came late Thursday afternoon postponing our seeding until Friday. We are thankful that we seeded even though our soils were a little wet because it seems that we […]
Category Archives: Veggies
Saturday at Market Vanessa and Alex at Full Sun Farm had the most BEAUTIFUL arugula, radishes, kale and baby boc choi. The last couple years at this time we had kale and baby boc choi but the flea beetles and harlequin bugs have been so tenacious this season that our kale is stunted and our […]
I feel a bit lazy these past couple of days. Sunday I didn’t do much but harvest a little squash which aren’t so pretty because the squash bugs are munching on them. We are desperately trying to kill a few bugs so Carl sprayed our crops Sunday while I weeded a little bit of our […]
Terrorists and Thugs Flea Beetle Harlequin Bug Today we spent the afternoon wondering – do we till the broccoli and da cheong under or do we hoe it and try to save it? Our fall crops are looking pretty poor so we aren’t quite sure what to do. Collecting insurance is not an option since […]
The Broccoli box was full of eggplant before I roasted them. Notice how small the yield after roasting them – the yellow bowl – but it will still be tasty during the winter! I used to only freeze eggplant in the form of baba ganoush but this year I am simply freezing pureed eggplant. So […]
The past couple of weeks we have been at peak production with tomatoes, beans and corn! We are lovin’ the tomatoes while splurging on them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We have also been eating corn almost every day the last couple of weeks. We only harvest 4 times from each succession of corn planted so corn […]
Finally our third sunny day in a row…. A brake in rain so we are spending our time getting plants out of the greenhouse and into the fields, our fields plowed and much more…. We are so thankful for the great crew on the farm this year: they are easy going, hard workers, dedicated to […]
We need rain here in the mountains. We are still in a drought and have been for the past couple of years which makes me not want to complain one bit about the snow and rain the past few weeks; however, we FINALLY had a couple days of sunshine, just the right amount giving our […]
Joey was one of the folks to leave without notice in the peak of our season, I am now forgiving him, because I have to say he put in some good energy into this farm. We have a new greenhouse in production and the land was graded with a dozer, thus the earth very hard, but […]
We just finished transplanting our strawberries for the 2009 season and seeded cover crops in most of our growing areas. We feel a certain “RELIEF†that these major chores are completed and that we will soon have a rest from the demands of the farming season.   As our drought continues, we are contemplating setting up […]