Two Feet in the Dirt

With mid-September upon us, we’re moving into more and more cool season veggies, even as the weather this week seems to want to jump back to more summer-like temperatures and humidity! On the farm, we’ve tilled under the majority of this year’s cucumber and zucchini and replanted the beds in an oat/pea cover crop. While some of the cover crops we use can grow through the winter, oats and peas are sensitive to cold temperatures and will eventually die and form a protective mulch on the bed through the winter months. Therefore, it is ideal to get this cover crop seeded on the early side so that the plants can...

Another week, another tropical storm! Today, we’re largely inside as rains from Ida continue to drench the region. We’re lucky that the track of the storm shifted enough that, instead of the original prediction of 6+ inches of rain, it looks like we’ll be getting a slightly more reasonable amount. It looks like the storm will be shepherding in a much more pleasant spate of weather with significantly lower temperatures and humidity, something we are more than ready for. We’re heavy into fall planting at this point, with the first radishes and lettuce set to be harvestable in the coming weeks, so it’s a relief to see that the weather...