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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 27, 2011 23:58:30 GMT -5
Here's what my CSA baskets looked like today (2011-07-27):  Contained: New potatoes (Pontiac), shelling peas (green arrow), beets, garlic, crookneck, zucchini (LISP and Homegrown Goodness, mixed colors and shapes), green onions, snap beans (yellow, purple, and green), carrots, and Walla Walla onions. My newest crop.  And the patch that they came out of:  The patch consists of about 7 rows of Pontiac potatoes, and about 4 rows of landrace potatoes. I dug whole plants. One plant received a reprieve, because it had some berries forming on it. |
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jul 28, 2011 8:54:53 GMT -5
I think I envy your subscribers!
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Post by 1066 on Jul 29, 2011 12:05:29 GMT -5
Do you do deliveries  ;D those beets look a fabulous colour - what variety are they? |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 29, 2011 15:17:58 GMT -5
I deliver to the USPS. They deliver to your home.... Within Utah it is generally an overnight delivery. To other US addresses it's 2-3 days. Which often ends up being fresher than anything that the store has to offer. A friend was being silly at the post office the other day saying, "What? You're shipping vegetables now?" To which I had to reply, "But of course". He looked at me sheepishly and said "Serves me right for smarting off, huh?" I can't send every kind of vegetable through the mail, but many ship great.
My daddy grew the beet seed for me. It probably started out as "Detroit, Dark Red". There's about 3% Swiss chard pollen floating around in the mix.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Aug 1, 2011 5:58:07 GMT -5
I bet you could fit even those small personal size watermelons in a large flat rate box. They are supposed to ship up to 70 lbs per box for the same price. Joseph, how many man hours per day do your enterprises entail? Do you work alone?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 2, 2011 10:55:52 GMT -5
Good thing I love my work, since I put in 12 hours per day gardening, except when I work a half day or a few hours extra. Wednesday is market day for me so I start picking extra early and work late to get the water started after dark when the market has closed. (I don't like picking in wet fields.) No weeding for me on Wednesdays.
I work alone except when I have help.... There is a lady that helps me harvest on Wednesday afternoons. Sometimes two. My family helps sometimes, especially with planting, and during frost emergencies. Sometimes the u-pick people will leave half of what they pick for me.
I have lots of help with my breeding programs. People I don't even know will provide seeds or suggestions. Seeds just show up on my doorstep or in the mail.
Wish my flat and my fields were closer together. The drive time irritates the hell out of me.
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Post by steev on Aug 2, 2011 20:05:40 GMT -5
I'll bet your drive-to-garden isn't 2.5 hours, like mine.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 4, 2011 0:27:19 GMT -5
Here's what my baskets looked like on August 3rd 2011.  Contained: Beets, new potatoes, carrots (two of my plantings failed so there are not enough), yellow onions that decided to fall over, yellow zucchini, crookneck, cucumber, purple (green) onions, Walla Walla onions, garlic, and shelling peas (green arrow). There were 6 ripe tomatoes this week, but I didn't put them in baskets. My commute varies from day to day depending on where I'm sleeping, and which field I'm working in, but it's not anywhere near 2.5 hours. |
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Post by mnjrutherford on Aug 4, 2011 5:39:12 GMT -5
Peas and potatoes! Already a dream gone by here. Squash as well.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 11, 2011 0:51:39 GMT -5
Here's what my family baskets looked like today (August 10th, 2011)  Contained new potatoes, green onions, summer squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, Walla Walla sweet onions, red raspberries. The last picking of peas. The first picking of green beans and sweet corn. |
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Post by ottawagardener on Aug 11, 2011 11:21:25 GMT -5
You're still harvasting peas? Nice.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 11, 2011 11:50:19 GMT -5
I planted 5 patches of shelling peas. Planting the next patch when the previous one had about 3-5 true leaves. I have one more patch coming on, but the package didn't have a label on it, and they turned out to be edible-pod peas, so I don't know if I'll pick them since they are a bit stringy this time of year. Perhaps I'll pick them for seed or dried pea soup.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 18, 2011 14:03:16 GMT -5
Here's what my CSA baskets looked like yesterday (August 17th):  Contained hybrid F1 sweet corn [Ashworth X se+], big daddy onion, Utah yellow Spanish onion, Pontiac new potatoes, cucumbers, summer squash, tomatoes (Joseph's earliest shown, some slicers just starting to ripen), Joseph's landrace snap beans, sweet peppers (some baskets also got jalapeños or poblanos), and apricots. Painted Mountain decorative corn was harvested yesterday, and was also available.  |
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Post by synergy on Aug 18, 2011 14:32:05 GMT -5
Oh my gosh, Joseph it brought tears to eyes seeig all that lovely produce in each picture of this thread. I don't know if I am hormonal or just deeply appreciative of your work .
So inspiring !
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 18, 2011 15:00:26 GMT -5
Thanks for saying so.
I cried yesterday too. Someone went into my field and decided to help me by pulling off all the zucchini that were getting too big: Gotta pick the plants clean after all if we want them to keep producing squash.
Only problem is, they picked my seed crop for next year before it matured, and it's probably too late in the season to mature more fruits.
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