A shift in weather has everyone, farmers, animals, and plants, breathing a sigh of relief after a nice bit of rain, and some cooler temperatures, for a few days at least.
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| What a cool spot! |
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| Up to his knees |
We made it through the worst of the weather with LOTS of irrigation, and lots of swimming in the creek!
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| Skipping Stones |
Everything and everyone needs lots of water in that kind of heat—throughout that heat wave and dry spell, we felt like triage nurses attending to the worst patients in the fields.
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| Our new pump finds its home streamside! |
We finished weeding our wintersquashes this past week, and they look good. The heat really pushed them along, many flowers have been open and are pollinated, and there even a few varieties with large fruits, and some with lil’ labies!
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| Squash Hunters |
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| Fields of Winter Squash refreshed after the rain!! |
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| There is an acorn in there! |
If our season were a race, we would actually be heading towards the final curve of the track.
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| Butternut sizing up nicely |
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| Acorn...some is already green |
Besides a few lettuce, napa, and broccoli transplanting, and a few more rounds or direct seeding in the field, our main mission at this point is to shepherd our 40 plus acres of plants into the final big growing stretch.
With lots of weeding and irrigating over the next few weeks we should be able to insure a bountiful fall harvest—but we are not there yet.
Enjoy, Chris
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