Comment/Response? 
Daily activities of the owner of a 20 acre Organic
Farm plus
observations, notes, and comments on a wide variety of topics.
| 1 | Prepared for the St. Joseph
Farmers Market. Put up bird netting over the blueberry bushes. Roto tilled the pepper plants. |
| 2 | Worked as a vendor at the
St. Joseph Farmers Market. Adjusted the bird netting over the blueberry bushes. Set up a sprinkler system for the hardening off area. Watered the farm. |
| 3 | Watered the farm. |
| 4 | Watered the farm. Potted more lavender and basil plants. |
| 5 | Roto tilled the winter
squash, sunflowers, and 2 rows of tomatoes. Started 1 flat of basil. Got 0.3" of rain (hoo-ray!) |
| 6 | Finished roto tilling tomato plants. Potted coleus plants and pepper plants leftover from the farm planting. |
| 7 | Cut the side out of an old
water tank to make a device for digging potatoes. I currently dig them one at a time
with a shovel. It seemed like a curved metal plate (the side of the water tank)
being pulled by the tractor like a scoop bucket could unearth the potatoes and then if the
dirt and potatoes went over a grating - the potatoes should end up laying on top of the
dirt. Watered the farm. |
| 8 | Prepared for the St. Joseph
Farmers Market. Tried the metal potato digger I had made. The metal bent when I encountered an old stump of a grape plant underground. (back to the drawing board) Watered the farm. |
| 9 | Worked as a vendor at the
St. Joseph Farmers Market. Watered the farm. |
| 10 | Tied and trimmed 700 tomato plants out on the farm. |
| 11 | Tended tomato plants. Watered the farm. |
| 12 | Tended and watered tomato plants. |
| 13 | Tended tomato plants. Watered the farm. |
| 14 | Tended tomato plants. Watered the farm. |
| 15 | Tended tomato plants. Watered the farm. Got 0.5" of rain later in the day. |
| 16 | Roto tilled peppers and tomato plants. |
| 17 | Disked the pumpkin field and
sunflower fields. Make a small table for the Roadside Farm Stand. |
| 18 | Tended the tomato plants. Painted the base for the Farm Stand Table and anchored it in place. |
| 19 | Mowed the paths around the farm as well as the onions and potatoes. |
| 20 | Mowed the Grapes-NE Field, the Fairway, and around
the fields. The Grapes-NE field had been planted in cantaloupes but the extended
drought did them in (this was a field I decided not to water with city water). I'll
plow the field under and try to grow a late crop of cukes and pickles. We got 1.25" of rain (wow!!) |
| 21 | Dug potatoes for a special
order. Planted 3 rows of ornamental sunflowers and 1 row for seed heads. We got 0.15" of rain. |
| 22 | Prepared for the St. Joseph
Farmers Market. Planted 7 more rows of sunflowers for seed heads. Plowed and disked Grapes-NE for a late planting of cukes. Roto tilled a second planting of cukes and pickles. |
| 23 | Worked as a vendor at the
St. Joseph Farmers Market. Started tending the 500 pepper plants. We got 0.2" of rain. |
| 24 | Added cukes to the Farm
Stand. Tended pepper plants. Moved the Japanese beetle traps from being inside the blueberry bushed to a brush pile adjacent to them. |
| 25 | Finished tending the 500
pepper plants. Started tending the 700 tomato plants. We got 0.15" of rain. |
| 26 | Delivered large tomato
plants for a special order. Planted leftover tomato plants in the Tomato Field. 0.85" of rain. |
| 27 | Cut weeds in cuke and squash fields at locations where where no seeds germinated. |
| 28 | Disked and dragged Grapes-NE Field and planted 1-1/2 row of late pickles and cukes. |
| 29 | Prepared for the St. Joseph
Farmers Market. Planted remaining rows of late pickles and cukes. |
| 30 | Worked as a vendor at the
St. Joseph Farmers Market. Worked on the Trailer for the car and set up a system of shelves designed to hold our yellow picking tubs. We will be able to carry much more produce to the Farmers Market by carrying things in a standard sized container and spacing the shelves accordingly. Started roto tilling pepper plants. Watered the sprouting seeds in the sunflower fields. |
| 31 | Finished roto tilling to
pepper plants. Watered the new cuke seedlings. We only got 3.5" of rain for the entire month. |
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