Hey, Rob is back! After some traveling to places 'away,' Rob hopped right back into the farm work. Trimming garlic tops on a rainy morning was perfect greenhouse work. WMPG radio provided the tunes as we consolidated the garlic from several benches to handy bags.
We also fired up the old wheel hoe to disturb the little weeds, and incorporate some dolomitic limestone. We'll be trying spinach yet again. We're hoping that the lime from this spring, and then another dose now will get the pH where the spinach will thrive. I can't wait to take a soil test this fall. No studying required! (tee hee) Just digging up appropriate representative samples of the field.
After running errands around town, lots of starting, stopping, and leaving the lights on while I wrote things down, the old battery in the farm truck said it was tired. What do you know, a passing CSA member came to the rescue! Now that is the community supporting agriculture. Thank you!
And here is the usual view at the end of the day in the cooler. Anything that really needs to be harvested gets put in here during the week before I get a chance to distribute. Also now that I have extra cooler space, I'm sharing it with Green Spark. That's their pile of delicious cantaloupes, there. Alas, I planted fewer melons, so after the porcupines came in, I had no melons to store.
The CSA boxes get pre-chilled here too! It's a convenient place to keep them, and the cool boxes should provide the cool, moist veggies with a happy environment for a bit longer during transit to the dropoff. There is a bit more finish work I would like to do in the cooler, but that can wait till winter.
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