A Unique Day – 38 Years – 13,879 Nights

A Cooperative Effort

Holiday Wreath Making

David makes the wire frames and cuts branches from our Leyland Cypress trees; we have several. I divide the branches into usable pieces and wire them on to the frames.

 

Compare and Contrast

On Monday it was 70° and sunny we had to open the sides of the tunnels. On Wednesday it snowed everything was doubled covered and closed up tight.

 

 

 

Do You Know What Day This Is?

West End Community Market

Today –Tuesday – 3 pm until 6 pm

What is coming to market ?

Holiday Wreaths

Cherry Belle Radishes

Homegrown Produce  –  

• greens  – Black Kale,  Swiss Chard, Mizuna, Komatsuna,Pak Choi , greens mix – Blue Scotch Kale and spinach,
• root crops –  White Lady turnips by the quart (no tops), radishes, beets with greens 
• peppers  – hot
• fresh herbs  –  not today

 

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West End Community Market

Don’t Forget!

Tomorrow 3 pm until 6 pm

growing bed in greenhouse

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Arctic Blast

This week, because of the arctic blast, David spent a lot of time monitoring the temperatures of the greenhouse and the winter tunnels. The outside temperatures reached 16°, our lowest, on Tuesday night. All of our plants in the tunnels survived but some of our outside plants were burned by the cold.

The cold air burned the greens of our White Lady turnips and Siberian kale.

After weeding David waters plants in tunnel B.

 

 

No rest for the weary, there is still work to be done during the winter months.

I am still germinating seeds and transplanting seedlings. These tender things are moved from the greenhouse to the basement at night.

West End Community Market

Today –Tuesday – 3 pm until 6 pm

Hopefully, the powers that be will allow us to go inside because of the freeze.

What is coming to market ?

Homegrown Produce  –  

• greens  – mixed greens(tender baby Siberian kale,Black Kale, spinach, & Red Mizuna) small Blue Scotch Kale, baby mixed mustard (Southern Giant and Extra Frilly), Swiss Chard, Mizuna  – Green, Purple, Red and Ruby Streaks
• root crops –  White Lady turnips by the quart (no tops), radishes, beets with greens 
• peppers  – sweet and hot
• fresh herbs  –  not today

see side panel for directions – click on address for map

Treasonous Family – Cruciferae

 

This morning, because of last night’s arctic blast, David did not go outside until the sun had warmed the air a bit. When he opened the front door he saw our vegetable plants running down the road. “Wait”, he hollered after them. “Where are you going? It’s only November, don’t leave yet.”

 

Buzz, Buzz

The chainsaw has been a buzzing.  The late freeze this past spring damaged our youngest Carpathian nut tree and our fig bush. The Brown Turkey fig came back with new growth from the ground and although we gave the nut tree plenty of time to regenerate itself it did not.

 

David cut down the nut tree Monday and is working on the fig bush today.