A Thousand Words

To supplement the farm report.  Here are pictures from June 22, 2012 for your enjoyment and edification.

Their days are numbered - and that number is SIX!  The broilers are "day-ranged" and are now available to be reserved.

Our Winter Squash Field.  The area closest to the camera was direct seeded and is just popping up.  The transplants are further away.  Don't let perspective fool you, much more is transplant than seed.

Field E2 is beans and potatoes.  This is what one of our spacing trials looks like when it is weeded.

And, here's what it looks like when it is NOT weeded.  Anyone out there have a need for some therapy?  Weeding IS therapy.  Better yet - you want potatoes and beans this year?  These need to be weeded now.

Same field, different spacing, mostly weeded.  See, we haven't been just sitting and watching the weeds grow.

Summer squash and zucchini transplants.  This is succession 2.  Succession 1 is over on the left.  Rows just to the left of this succession hold recently seeded turnip and beet rows.

Tomatoes!  Note the drip tape.  It looks pretty clean right now, but we just went and looked at it all of 36 hours later.... not so clean!  Time to weed, mulch, cage and trellis.

Cucumbers and climbing beans (at the right).  Got to get that fence up for the beans soon.  The cukes are transplants (for the most part) and are starting to 'take.'  So, a growth spurt should be upcoming for them.

Brassica and onions (broccoli, pok choi, etc).  Really, we worked hard to weed this field....

Evidence of our weeding job is still there.  But, we've got to get back at it.

Okra, beans and eggplant in the southwest field.  Recently wheel hoe cultivated.

Another view of the same field with peppers.

Pumpkins are looking VERY good.

Lettuce and weeds.  Note the arugula that has bolted on the right.

The melon field is one of our experiments with paper mulch.  The plants are in, but were not at the point we took this picture.

And, here is the tool we used to put the paper mulch down.  It took a day to put the darned thing together and get everything lined up properly.  But, you have to spend time to save time.