There are a bunch of spinach seed packs in the mail right now traveling from different seed companies to Tourne-Sol farm. They are all in my crop plan spreadsheets – scheduled to be planted in the field this fall side by side in the same bed. We’re going to harvest the leaves in the fall … More Planning for some fall/winter spinach 🥬
Chamomile is one of those plants. (Those are the green plants in the foreground of this picture from last August.) These plants were harvested just as the seed was starting to mature. A little bit earlier than it seems they should be ready. We brought them into the greenhouse and spread them out for a … More Some plants just want to drop all their seed on the ground
Last year, there were Kale plants in this spot in the greenhouse. One thing about a seed crop is that you can never harvest all the seed. Some will shatter and fall to the ground. These seedlings are from that shattered Kale seed. If this bed was outside, we would have seen this flush of … More A Kale Cover Crop
When the snow thaws, last year’s remaining zucchini’s are revealed. Once giant fruit – now frozen shattered cells on the verge of jelly. Kind of like some of the files you find as you dig into the deeper levels of your computer archives. The lingering traces of once mighty projects – now but a pile … More After the thaw
Anyone else have a big bowl of garlic cloves within easy reach of the cutting board? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? These are mostly leftover Rocambole garlic cloves from when @fermetournesol planted garlic. Rocamboles have about 10-11 cloves per bulk. We keep the 6-8 biggest Cloves per bulb and put the rest aside. There was … More Big Bowls Of Garlic Cloves
These scallions were planted in August 2020. They spent a winter outdoors under minitunnels (like those on the left of the picture.) They started flowering in June and we harvested their seed in July and August.. Most seed crops die down after seed harvest, but not these scallions! These scallions are Allium fistulosum and are … More Watching green onions through the winter
As patient as a bean in a bin. These are the beans that have not yet been picked. These are the beans that are left once the seed crew went through and hand picked out all the bad beans – the splits, the moldies, the germinated, the stones that are not beans, the occasional pea … More As Patient As A Bean In A Bin
“Where did you buy those mini-tunnel arches?” was the main response to last month”s post about overwintering crops in mini-tunnels, Well, we bought some 10ft long E.M.T. conduit from a local hardware store and then bent the arches ourselves. It’s a pretty simple process that you can easily do on your farm. Come, let’s see … More Bend Your Own Mini-Tunnel Arches
We ran out of time to build caterpillar tunnels in Novemeber.
So we built mini tunnels to overwinter crops instead! … More Mini Tunnels To Get Seed Crops Through The Winter