Busy weekend!
Posted by Lauren on 05 Jul 2009 at 10:12 pm | Tagged as: being behind, chaos, farm updates, johnson farm, planting
… but we got to stretch two days’ worth of work out over three days, and a good thing too — it was too hot to work outside between 12 and 4ish every day this weekend, so we got to take breaks and drink gins and tonic and read our books. But all the same, we got a lot done and of course there is a lot left to do. We are at least six weeks behind the season, I feel like, which is especially sad since it has been super sunny and warm here for about that long.
The various (50+) squashes and pumpkins just got in the ground at Johnson Farm on Friday and Saturday. They have been living in the greenhouse in gallon pots. Many of them have several blossoms. I don’t know if that’s good (yay fruits) or bad (plant growth is now stunted?).
Today we cleared out our bolted radishes, chicken-pecked and side-shoot-producing broccoli, and crowded lettuces (destined for lettuce kraut) finally, and fertilized, composted, and got 21 tomatoes, also in gallon pots, into the ground at home. There are probably 80+ plants waiting to go in at Johnson Farm and at our New New Farm (which Garth has referenced but we haven’t yet introduced properly — that’s on my list). Tomatillos and eggplants and peppers are in the same boat.
I shall stop now lest I fall asleep at the keyboard, but suffice it to say, we are feeling pleased and optimistic with FINALLY making progress … and there is more to come.
Wow, that’s a lot of work. Do you have time to plant tomatoes in July? I should be harvesting my first tomato tomorrow and all my plants are 5 feet tall. Hmm? Curious.
Sorry you’re so tired. I know how you feel. I’ve been doing manual labor renovating my childhood home every night after work and all weekend for two weeks and 8 months of weekends before that, hehe. I’m exhausted. Going to bed sounds good. Thanks for the suggestion, hehe.
Like I said, “at least six weeks behind in the season” …
It’s not like we’re planting from seed, though — the tomatoes have been growing in the greenhouse, are like 3 feet tall, got lots of blossoms and tiny fruits, but yeah, we are seriously, embarrassingly far behind. We just haven’t had ground to put them in, but we have 100+ starts that were already started, so it was either plant them and see, or throw them out. So.
Ah, I get it. You must have a huge greenhouse. Ah, to have more space. We saw 10 acres for sale about a mile from our house. If it weren’t way out of my price range and a bit more land than I’d want, I’d buy it in a heartbeat. To have space for everything I want to have in my yard, priceless…