We dived into this season knowing that we didn’t know enough. Our goal has been to learn everything we possibly can to get ourselves into shape for real production quickly.
So doing some planning recently, I wondered how many weedings might be optimal. I found this graph in Google Books and thought I’d share it.
A colorful train car passes the crossing our farm is behind on Gough Road.
Colin transplants some peppers.
Raphael shows Ryan an inchworm he found.
We got some walkie-talkies. They’ve been enormously helpful. Sure beats trying to yell detailed instructions across 300 feet.
Colin marches the wheel hoe out to the field for another tour of duty.
After the pepper beds were tilled, there were gobs of roots and rocks to cart off. This is just a bit of it.
Colin tilled, and tilled, and tilled the field where we sowed the peppers.
Kim poses with one of the lovely 4” tomato blocks. We start tomatoes in tiny 3/4” blocks, then up-pot them to 2” blocks like you’ve been seeing in these pictures, then up to 4”. The plants sure love the 4” blocks.
