Hi! We are busy taking care of the time fall offers us this week! We are strip-harvesting storage crops, planting overwintering onions (lots of them!) and re-skinning the High Tunnel. Diakons and turnips are crops we can harvest and store in the cooler for many months without deminshing their quality. We like to take advantage of the nice days to get these in the cooler. We are also hard at work prepping beds and planting overwintering onions. These bulbs get placed this fall and slowly grow until spring where they burst out of the ground and make lovely large onions. (This is what the cover picture is about!). Also, when the wind is still, we have the opportunity to replace the plastic that covers our green houses.
We were able to put new plastic on our passive solar greenhouse last week, and today, we were able to replace the plastic covering our mobile high tunnel. The plastic covering our greenhouses needs to be replaced every 4 years or so because it starts getting opaque (and sometimes holey!). We reuse this old plastic on our tunnel end walls, for "doors" on the ends of caterpillar tunnels and as a plastic sheet to trap warmth over crops when it gets really cold. (and for slip and slides at fourth of July parties!)
Look for the last of the hot peppers in your shares this week!
Thanks for choosing us to be your farmers!
-Kimby, Curtis, Sarah and the farm crew
