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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 20, 2011 23:57:51 GMT -5
Wow. Direct seed. I love Grunt. If I planted anything by direct seed, except for squash, it would be swallowed whole by amaranth. (The kind that gives me blisters.) I can only set plants or whole onions.
Sets always bolt here. Joseph does grow a beautiful onion.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 22, 2011 15:19:23 GMT -5
Headed to the market yesterday (September 21st) with some vegetables:  A fun day: The haul included 8 bushels of sugary enhanced sweet corn, lots of cantaloupe, summer squash, turnips, carrots, potatoes, strawberries, tomatoes, a lost row of walla walla onions that was rediscovered, yellow storage onions, cucumbers, decorative gourds, garlic, earwigs, corn earworms, ladybugs, and I'm sure a few things that I didn't think to mention. I haven't started picking winter squash yet. Perhaps next week. And OSU blue tomatoes:  A Cherokee purple plant also showed up in one of the landraces I planted, but I forgot to photograph it. |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 28, 2011 22:23:44 GMT -5
Here's what my CSA baskets looked like today (September 28th): They contained Big Daddy onion, walla walla onions, crookneck, broccoli, eggplant, peppers, carrots, garlic, plums, green beans, cucumbers, cantaloupe, tomatoes, and baby maxima squash. Also since it is an abundant week, people took extras from the table a-la-cart. Last week's extra was freezing quantities of sugary enhanced sweet corn. Still hoping for a tomato harvest before frost which I'm tentatively expecting within 3-9 days....  And what the table looked like:  And the funnest thing that someone brought to market: (curling iron)  |
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Post by steev on Sept 28, 2011 23:04:50 GMT -5
You do grow a wonderful assortment.
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Post by cortona on Sept 29, 2011 10:57:30 GMT -5
i've missed the onions discussion, we grow onons and save hour hown seeds, we direct sow densely around 01/17 and we barely cover the sow bed wt straw or a nailon ad n spring we transplant it in place wen it are pencil size, we save the best bulbs for replanting in march in order to obtain seeds(the biggest problem is wind so some time we need to help the flower's scape but usualy we can harvest as much seeds as we want, this year with the hail storm we have experienced the seed's ammount is little but enough to share some seeds around.
ps hour temps are as low as 10/12 c below 0
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Oct 6, 2011 2:09:41 GMT -5
Joseph, I look forward to seeing your website updated to reflect how each of your landraces or projects did this year. I know you continually update us here on the forum, but it's always nice to see everything laid out and a nice summary to go with it. I guess you could provide a summary here as well. Anyway, I look forward to hearing how everything did.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 6, 2011 10:49:18 GMT -5
I'll post updates soon. I'm in the midst of pre-freeze harvest. I'm taking lots of great pictures.... Here's part of yesterday's harvest:  And most of the rest of it:  I'm mostly done picking. It's currently 37F in my garden, so as soon as it stops raining I expect a hard freeze; I'm thinking that the rain will turn into snow before it clears up. Gotta take care of a couple truckloads of vegetables then I expect to post updates. The CSA baskets for October 5th were goofy... I didn't have baskets available to put them in, and I had spent all day picking in the rain, and we had pick-up at the farm rather than the town park, so everybody showed up earlier than usual, so I said, "Take what you want". Baskets were meant to include: golden delicious apples, plums, tomatoes, turnips, cucumbers, tomatillos, zucchini, crookneck, cantaloupe, winter squash, green beans. Most people got most things. I loaded people up with as many butternut squash and banana squash as they would take. About half took canning quantities of something: Tomatoes, peppers, etc. Next week I'll push the winter storage squash again, since some people wanted to taste them before filling their garage with squash. |
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Post by mnjrutherford on Oct 6, 2011 12:20:08 GMT -5
Amazing and beautiful. Wow
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Post by 12540dumont on Oct 6, 2011 16:09:53 GMT -5
Joseph, I just noticed the corn with the curled husks. I don't even have time to curl my own hair, let alone curl the corn. I will confess to braiding it before hanging, but that was a matter of being able to hang it to dry. I think these women have too much time on their hands...I guess that's the benefit of having more than one wife, you can really divide up the work. I wish I had a wife. I despair of ever seeing the kitchen table again. Every time I get it cleaned off, another tray or 20 of something comes in and it's buried again. I finally got the tomatoes out and now it's loaded with pears. That was a lovely photo of yer purdy turquoise truck loaded with veges. We had the same stuff, except I had pears instead of apples and leeks instead of onions. I gave away lots of free corn ear worm. Yep, cold and raining here too. Had to dig out the Pendleton and wear gloves to pick corn. I'm a cold muddy mess. Heading to the shower. Looks like the weather is going to finish my CSA in October. Attachments:
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Post by steev on Oct 6, 2011 16:30:37 GMT -5
What ever happened to pipe-cleaner-walnut-shell figures, a real creative outlet for idle hands?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 6, 2011 18:16:27 GMT -5
I had time today to pick some more green tomatoes before the freeze arrived. This afternoon the snow level was about 300 feet higher than the field. I figure it will reach the field overnight.  I also picked apples. They will probably be fine in the cold, but I picked a few bushels just in case. |
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Post by mnjrutherford on Oct 7, 2011 6:32:08 GMT -5
wow... BUSHELS of decent looking tomatoes... humbug
Jo <--- wondering if she can sell in NC and buy somewhere else
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Post by castanea on Oct 7, 2011 10:36:23 GMT -5
I had time today to pick some more green tomatoes before the freeze arrived. This afternoon the snow level was about 300 feet higher than the field. I figure it will reach the field overnight. I also picked apples. They will probably be fine in the cold, but I picked a few bushels just in case. What kind of apples are you growing? What kind of pests do you have to deal with? |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 7, 2011 10:47:16 GMT -5
My apples are golden delicious, red delicious, winesap, macintosh, jonathan, and something (my favorite) that I forget the name which is tart and sweet.
The only significant pest is apple maggot. I don't spray. I just pick the non-wormy apples, or cut the worm holes out before use. This year about 1/4 of the apples are wormy.
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Post by castanea on Oct 7, 2011 11:00:13 GMT -5
My apples are golden delicious, red delicious, winesap, macintosh, jonathan, and something (my favorite) that I forget the name which is tart and sweet. The only significant pest is apple maggot. I don't spray. I just pick the non-wormy apples, or cut the worm holes out before use. This year about 1/4 of the apples are wormy. But if you doused your apples in toxic chemicals you would have more salable apples and make more money! That's the American way! It's always nice to see someone avoid poison. I am so sick of American agriculture's insistence of using poison to make a few more bucks. |
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