Sunday, July 8, 2012

We are just now catching up on the farm enough to update our woefully neglected blog. It has started out to be a hot and dry summer and looks to be more like this for the rest of the summer. In an effort to conserve water we have been installing drip irrigation throughout the farm. The water comes out of plastic tubing and concentrated only where the plants are growing.
See the drip irrigation on the broccoli and greens

Another new thing we are trying this year is pruning and trellising our tomatoes in the hoop house. The tomatoes are supposed to put more energy into their fruit instead of their foliage. Hopefully this means more tomatoes for you, our CSA members.
See our happy trellised tomatoes. Notice the red mulch. Supposedly they do better on it, so we are experimenting to see. Also notice the drip irrigation in our hoop house.



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