The heat has made things pretty challenging the last week or so, along with continued dry weather at our location. Some of the vegetables are doing well with the heat and some have completely stopped producing or skipped out and gone to seed in response to the soaring temps. Winter and summer squashes, tomatoes, peppers, okra, melons and eggplants are all doing pretty well and in the beginning of their production, so that's the upside. You've seen the zucchini and cukes in your boxes and while there are no ripe tomatoes yet, there are lots of tiny green ones and zillions of blooms. The peppers and eggplants are growing well and flowering, too. We are adding more irrigation equipment this week because while some areas have had too much rain, our farm is in an area that has been dry for 2 weeks and it's starting to show. Between the heat and no rain, most of the lettuce, spinach and snap peas are over until cooler weather returns for awhile, but other greens aren't bothered like kale and chard.
Blue skies...
No comments:
Post a Comment