October 09, 2007
This week’s share: winter squash, leeks, lettuce, peppers, rutabagas, cabbage, spuds, celeriac.
Is it really October? It surely doesn’t feel like it. We’re ready
to fire up our wood stove, cook up some stew and bake some sweet potato
muffins. Instead, we’re still harvesting eggplant and peppers
waiting for a killing frost. I have to say I’m definitely
happy to still be eating eggplants and peppers, for I know their days
are numbered. This mild weather should help our cover crops get
established well before the cold comes, but then again they need the
rain…. After a great rowing season we really can’t complain but
the weather is a little eerie and unsettling.
Now that the bulk crops are in we’re turning our attention to late
season projects like making compost from our chicken manure & sheep
manure along with our neighbor’s horse manure. We’ll combine all
these elements and spread them out on the fields next
summer.
It’s also time to get ready for garlic planting – prepping the land,
shaping beds and treating with compost. Breaking up the bulbs
into cloves is a great rainy day project – sitting in the barn breaking
heads of garlic until we have 10,000 cloves!
Other projects for late fall are lamb slaughtering and greenhouse
relocating. Our friend Irving Wasley of blueberry fame has
offered us his small hoop house if we tear it down and take it away
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