Well into Fall

It’s the 9th of November and the hardest work is behind us. All of the fields are cover cropped and we’re just waiting for it to rain now.

All the Garlic is in, as of last week. 250 lbs!!! Quite a bit. We planted a little later than optimal, but, hey, it’s in, it’s growing and there’s no stopping it now. It added up to about ½ acre and we applied 12 tons of compost to that area to ensure a good stand of Garlic. In fact, 150 lbs are for seed garlic for, who else, Peaceful Valley Farm and Garden Supply. 2 varieties: Dujansky and Capathian – both are beautiful, striped red hardnecks.

Story time…

First a huge shout out to Pilot Peak Winery for loaning us 18 MacroBins to help out with the winter squash harvest a month ago. That saved us, big time – thanks a ton you guys!

On friday, Logan and I had to harvest for the co-op and the Saturday Morning market. We thought it would just take a few hours and somehow we put it off and put it off. We were resorting garlic, taking trash to the dump, cleaning bins and delivering bins – everything except for harvesting. I guess we had started to take our employees for granted!. Finally, we started harvesting – a large list: radishes, beets, carrots, peppers, winter squash, shallots, strawberries, celery, lettuce, potatoes. We had to leave on the early side also, to get our co-op delivery in. So, we ended up not even harvesting mustard greens, turnips, arugula, nor spinach. oops. Moral – if it’s not a pressing need, don’t do it on harvest day. We learned – we’ll be on top of it this week.