Even as the harvest dwindles and crops succumb to their annual cycle, fall on the farm always has an optimistic feel to it. It’s an “out with the old, in with the new” time of year, as we tear down the remnants of this season in order to lay the […]
Monthly Archives: October 2017
We get pretty excited around here when it starts to feel like fall. The weeds slow down, the days are shorter, and everyone looks great in a sweater. But us farmers aren’t the only thing that gets sweeter as the temperatures dip. Once we start getting some hard frosts in […]
Getting Sweeter with Age
In order to ensure a continuous harvest, we try to practice succession planting: a method in which several smaller plantings are made at timed intervals, rather than all at once. The plants mature at staggered dates, establishing a continuous harvest over an extended period. The cauliflower, for instance, was planted […]
Calling All Cauliflower
For the first time all season, our veggies needed water beyond what falls from the sky. In a regular season, we irrigate via drip tape–a thin plastic “hose” that runs the length of the bed and drips water at regular intervals. Drip tape is an efficient way to get water […]
Flat-Footed Irrigation
We’d been resistant to growing romanesco cauliflower for many seasons. Among growers, it has a reputation for being a primadonna in the fields–fickle about soil, climate, and transplant date. Turns out, it’s reputation is well-earned. Our entire second planting (with the exception of one plant) died under the row cover. […]