Heating up
Greetings!
We’re winding down after a hot week on the farm. All of the sudden, it feels like summer! With temps nearing 90 degrees this week, some of our earliest Spring flowers have slowed down. Even so, every day there’s something new and exciting in bloom on the farm. This week we harvested our first foxglove and campanula of the year, and there are many more new blooms on the horizon. In the past week we’ve planted dahlias, tomatoes, and peppers. Summer really is on the way!
This field is full of food and flowers and looking swell. In the foreground you can see celery and lettuce, and the background is all flowers and foliage that we’ll start harvesting in July.
This week we decided to utilize open space in the pawpaw patch and planted lots of perennial flowers left over from our seedling sales. We’ll harvest some of them, but we’re also looking forward to the area becoming a beautiful insect habitat!
As the weather warms, we find ourselves doing a lot less bed preparation and planting and a lot more crop maintenance and harvesting. We seed and transplant crops every week of the growing season, but once we hit late May, the focus really shifts. The summer months are all about harvesting and taking care of our plants. June is tends to be a month for lots of weeding, staking, and trellising. July is one of the slower months on the farm- lots of harvesting to do, but sales usually slow down while people are away for summer vacation. August starts out slow and by September we’re busy as can be with the pawpaw harvests, wedding season, and loads of dahlias to harvest every day. The summer months always fly by, and before we know it, frost has hit and we’re cleaning up the fields again.
Sunday, May 23rd, 8:00 am - 11:00 am: Johnny’s
We’ll be at market with arugula, sprouting broccoli, elderflower, radishes, spring mix, and hakurei turnips. We’ll also have lots of Spring flower, vegetable, and herb seedlings. And, as always, we’ll bring bouquets.
Take care,
Amelia and the rest of the Two Boots Farm crew
