June Brings Life.

One of the Moose to make its way into the field did little damage except this spinach stomping.



Garlic growing up nicely. This was the only thing that was planted last fall. They overwinter in the ground as bulbs and were the first thing in garden to break ground after the thaw.



Baby Leeks



All of the squash are planted in rows in the field and then covered with hoops with a plastic cover, mini greenhouses. They like it hot.



We currently have 8-10, 100ish foot beds planted with squashes.




Potato Field, the right 1/2 was just seeded with a cover crop, after i took this photo.


Pac Choi - Growing up.



2 weeks later, the Pac Choi is ready to harvest.



Beans on the left, or maybe they are peas, either way, they will be fun to watch.




This is a photo of a 3/4 inch header pipe. These run along the north ends of all the beds, and feed all the drip tape. They are a common sight for me, i repair then often,

I have spent the better part of the past 6 weeks working on getting all the irrigation together. Each row has 2, drip tape lines the run the entire length of the beds. I think of this farm as small, but when i add up all the feet of drip tape it makes it seem a little bit bigger, we have around 115 rows in the main garden, with most rows being about 300 feet. With 2 lines for every row, plus 16 rows of carrots in the carrot field, I will have moved singlehandedly over 2 miles of drip tape.

This is the edge of the work, we have been marching east with the bed prep. This shows untreated, last years bed, and then the freshly tilled and amended bed on the right




Saturday, River Bean, was teaching his 13 year old son how to flame the beds. We do this in order to kill off any weeds. We first drip irrigate the fields for a couple weeks in order to germinate the weed seeds, it is very dry here this time of year. After the weeds come up we have a tractor mountain propaine flaming device that incinerates everything. Then the rows are seeded, in this case with carrots, and the drip tapes are placed back on. This way the carrots will germanate before any new weeds which lets us weed, naturally without the use of any chemicals.
The Right Way.