Time Flies...

Time flies, even when you're not having fun!

• Enough with the rain.
• Enough with the hungry critters.
• Enough with weed growth.

OK, I feel better now. On with the show!

We're already in our 4th week of veggie subscriptions. Despite the things above, we actually have been having quite a nice variety for our subscribers each week.

The strawberries outside are finally starting to produce. The sweet corn looks great (except where the neighbor's cattle got out and decided to eat and knock some down). The first batch of corn is in silk, and starting to make nice little plump ears.

We have gotten a few ripe tomatoes from our plants - still waiting on most of them though!

We're getting ready to plant our fall crops so we have plenty for our customers all through September and October.

We had a great day at the Morgantown Farmers Market Saturday - thanks to all our loyal customers (and especially those who bring reusable bags!)

Where's the sunshine?

OK, enough with the RAIN! Our greens barely grew this week - we have much less to take to the market tomorrow than we've had the last two weeks. With no sunshine, things just aren't growing like we would wish them to.

We're hoping the rain holds off during the market at Morgantown tomorrow morning. Markets in the cold rain are downright miserable.

In other news, Charles was able to trod through the mud and transplant some onions this week, along with some Swiss chard, spinach, and lots of lettuce. We still have some plastic mulch to lay, but we have to wait until the fields dry out.

Please help us by praying for some sunshine! (And warmer weather!)

Charles, the Mulch-Laying Man!

Charles worked at laying plastic mulch pretty much all day. When you lay a couple miles of it each year, it takes a little time.

The process goes like this: After plowing and working down the soil, you till the beds so the soil is nice and soft. Then you lay the plastic with the raised bed mulch-laying machine (ours if partly homemade by Charles, partly store-bought). Voila, nice, ready-to-plant-in, raised beds!

We hope tomorrow we'll have most of the day to lay more plastic before the rain comes. It was nice having some warm, sunny days to work outside.

But,

Sunny, warm days cause the greenhouse and tunnel temperatures to skyrocket. So you have to water them more often to keep the poor little plants moist. Running back and forth from the farm (where the tunnels are) to the house (where the greenhouse is) takes some time.

Hopefully mother nature will cooperate on a regular basis and let us get our work done.