Well, it didn’t rain today (tues.)….however it did rain hard on Saturday and Monday. We’re racking our farmer brains trying to figure out how we can make everything work. We’ve come up with a few ideas that could work, but it’s just got to stop raining for a few days in a row. We have one field that dries out faster than the rest, we grew the strawberries and all the early Spring crops in it this year. We usually just do one crop per field per year. It looks like we’re going to go back into that field for much of the fall plantings (we hope). Again it’s got to stop raining. Diseases have started to surface around the farm, on some of the winter squash & peppers. The field tomatoes have late blight which will severely limit the harvest from them this year. There’s a bed of carrots starting to rot because their roots are in water, and have been from close to 4 weeks now. We’re a little worried about the potatoes, though the ones we’ve managed to get out of the ground have been really nice, but they don’t like to stay so wet for so long. We’ve missed sowing beets, carrots, beans, lettuce, lettuce mix, and the last round of sweet corn, all due to the weather. This bodes illl for what we’ll have available in the fall. Wow, writing it all down is a little depressing. It may be that bad, but somehow I don’t feel like it’s the end of everything. There’s nothing to do but keeping moving forward.
I wrote the above message for the Wednesday crowd. Since then it has rained more, if you can believe it! Wednesday evening it just poured for about half an hour. Anyway we went ahead with our plan and all the strawberry plants have been pulled out and in their place we’ll plant all the fall greens, probably next week. I went ahead and mowed and disced our sandiest field. I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t crazy wet. Progress there. On yet another sour note, however, some of the winter squash has phytothera, just is rotting the plants and fruits. A huge bummer.
Next week. These boxes are waxed and are not recyclable, but we reuse them. So PLEASE remember to bring them back next week.