Downtown Harvest CSA

The share for this week is green leaf lettuce, carrots, celery, cucumbers, summer squash, beans, yellow onions, white potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, melons or watermelon, and choice of an herb.

As for the update, the rainy week is behind us and fortunately it was not as bad as it looked on the weather sites. We received another inch and a half of rain during the week in addition to the 3 inches mentioned in the last update. Last night’s storms which were predicted to possibly bring hail and damaging winds brought neither and only a quarter of an inch of precipitation. The week ahead looks good with sunshine and mild temperatures, as we keep a wary eye on Hurricane Irene. Continue reading →

The share for this week will be:  Red or green Romaine lettuce, string beans, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, cukes, red potatoes, white onions, savoy or green cabbage, beets, and melons or watermelons.

It was a week of glorious weather; plenty of sunshine and moderate temperatures. Now it seems we have slipped back into the rainy weather pattern that prevailed in the spring. The rains that began on Saturday evening have dropped 3 inches on us thus far, with more forecast for Monday and Tuesday.   Continue reading →

First, the share for the week!  Boston or oak leaf lettuce, carrots, summer squash, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, melons or watermelons, white potatoes, garlic, string beans and yellow onions.

And on to the update. It was another good weather week here on the farm.  We received an inch and a quarter of rain on Saturday night.  We are looking at a lot of chances for more rain from scattered and isolated thunderstorms during the week ahead. The rain has been very helpful for both germination of the many direct seeded crops I have been planting as well as for rooting of the thousands of brassica family crops we have been transplanting.  Hopefully these won’t drop too much more precipitation as the ground is quite saturated now, and persistent wet conditions can exacerbate disease problems in the tomatoes and other crops.

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We’ve had two wonderful rains here on the farm during the past week; each dropping a little over an inch of precipitation. The first was a beautiful slow steady rain that fell over a period of 8 hours or so, which allowed the very parched ground to soak it up. The second came as more of a deluge, delivering an inch in about two hours, but since the ground was already moist it was ready to absorb the water with little or no runoff.  Just what the plant doctor ordered! Continue reading →

Holy heat and humidity Batman!  The record breaking heat wave has been stressing my crops and taking a toll on my workers and myself. We have been moving the sprinklers around trying to maintain some soil moisture on those crops not set up with drip irrigation. The extreme temps have also led to the second onion catastrophe in as many weeks. It is standard procedure to pull the onions and leave them on the ground for a day or two so the tops to begin to dry down.

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