The last few weeks have been extraordinarily beautiful; mostly sunny days with cold evenings. The leaves on the trees are their amazing Fall colours, and it is hard to stay inside. Perfect days for doing a lot of clean up at the various properties; removing spent warm weather crops, planting rye and clover.
Below is a picture of the rye/legume mix coming in next to the brussels sprouts. These brussels sprouts plants are the same ones that were struggling a couple of months ago when they were inundated with flea beatles - look at them now, talk about a come back!
legume mix and brussels sprouts
Next year I will be expanding the business. Steve at the farm has kindly offered me more land! This new patch is right next to my existing area (see below). Steve grew potatoes on this area this year and has recently put rye on it. Combined, the area I will be working on the farm next year is approximately 9,400 square feet. Very exciting!
the new area at the farm that I will be using next year
One of the bigger projects I worked on recently was clearing out the hoophouse at the farm (it was full of tomatoes and basil (and weeds!) and then adding compost to the soil. I then planted some different types of lettuce, radicchio and mustard greens into the beds. These will be covered with remay (floating row cover). With the double protection of the plastic hoophouse and the remay I'm hoping that the greens will survive well into the Winter. My Grand Experiment!
the hoophouse at the farm cleaned out and replanted
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legume mix and brussels sprouts
the new area at the farm that I will be using next year
the hoophouse at the farm cleaned out and replanted
