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Rain

June 29, 2009   Agriculture, Daily Farm Life, Eat local, Garden, Greenhouse, high tunnel, hoop house, Growing Vegetables, Small Farming

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I’m not going to market tomorrow.  There’s enough ready to harvest for my local customers but not enough for market too.  I’m surprised at how well plants are growing.  The potatoes are beautiful and putting on blossoms, broccoli is heading up nicely, lettuces are doing well.  Unfortunately the pigweed and hairy galinsoga are growing faster.  When this weather breaks I’m going to hire a kid to help me get caught up on weeding.  When it rains tomorrow we’ll have had rain either 29 or 30 days in June.  I haven’t figured out how I’m going to pick peas in a week if the rain doesn’t stop.  According to the ten day forecast, it’s not going to stop.  Houses are washing off their foundations and roads are giving way because of the flooding.  Hay is starting to lay down in the fields because it’s too wet to cut.  I’m glad we’re not livestock farmers anymore.

Planting tomatillos in a greenhouse was a mistake.  Trying to tie them up was frustrating.  They’re coming out today.  If I grow them again they’ll be outside and left to sprawl.  I’ll replace the tomatillos with a heat tolerant lettuce, kale and endive after weeds are pulled, the soil is soaked (it’s dry in there because I stopped watering when I decided to kill the off the tomatillos) and amended.

Later today I’m going to work on my next newspaper column about food production myths.  I’ll make a loaf of whole wheat sandwich bread and a pesto bread to go with tonight’s supper of spaghetti.  I’ll pick a summer squash and pull an onion to sautee and add to the sauce.

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