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Farm Happenings at Sungrounded Farm
Bracing for the heat wave...
I'm sure you're not too thrilled about this heat, and the veggies aren't either. Not even tomatoes like to be over 95 degrees, they often drop blossoms rather than forming fruit in orer to conserve energy when temperatures get too high. On the farm this week we're doing everything we ca1 read more »
Tomatoes are here!
Summer has finally arrived on the farm, and the tomatoes are starting to flow. Generally, it's hard to get tomatoes before late July in central Oregon, but we've been heating our tomato greenhouse to 60 degrees at night in order to extend the precious tomato season! Type of tomatoes wil1 read more »
June on the Farm
Mid June is a beautiful time on the farm. Plants are getting big and the field is starting to look quite full, summer crops are all in, and finally, finally we start to see less frost protective row cover cluttering the view. We're hoping that last week held our last light frosts for th1 read more »
GARLIC SCAPES ARE HERE
We're always so excited to include garlic scapes in shares, as it's such a special moment in the growing year. Garlic Scapes are the flower shoot of hardneck garlic, which happens to grow in a whimsical curly-Q. It's best for garlic production to remove them anyway, and luckily they're1 read more »