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sweet as candy tiny tomatoes. Well the title says it all. Long week of planting and weeding.
Weeding the garlic by hand is a LONG slow process but is necessary to ensure the health of the garlic - so the weeds do not over shadow the garlic plants. And then it makes it much easier to harvest the garlic when it's free of weeds. Over 30,000 bulbs of garlic - need to be kept weed free. Fun times.
Planting: This spring has been long and cool. The weather was very cold earlier this week, about 37 degrees, so we had to keep the plants in the green house for a little longer. We had begun to plant last week, Thursday - two rows of large pumpkin - plants. Fortunately the cold didn't harm the little transferred plants.
Rick and I spent all day Tuesday planting various gourds and herb plants. Plus thousands of seeds for herbs and fall gourds, squash and pumpkins. We hope that our cilantro, basil, parsley, and chives thrive so we can bring fresh herbs to the market this summer. Oh my, how did I forget planting over 350 tomato plants. We returned our focus to the little tomatoes that our market customers know and love: The little tiny sweet tomato that we have been growing for several years - even though we are not certain of the variety - but it's sweet as sugar can be in candy. An Artisan Mix, Amish Gold and Beefsteak tomatoes and the Tomatoberry Tomato.
Wednesday, FORTUNATELY, fortunately our daughter had the day off work, so we enlisted the help of Amanda for the day. Thursday Rick and I continued with the planting on our own. Wednesday and Thursday we planted cucumbers, squash etc in the upper portion of the south field. Then we moved down into the lower portion of the south field. In the lower portion we decided to once again keep our focus on peppers. We planted at least 36 plants of each variety of peppers and sometimes more than 48 plants:
Sweets: Alma Paprika, Cherry Sweet, Cubanelle, Gypsy, Pimento, Sweet Banana and a colorful variety of bell peppers.
Heats: Ancho Pablano, Banana-hot, Big Jim, Cayenne, Cherry Bomb, Chili peppers large and small, Garden Salsa, Habernero, Hungarian Hot wax, Jalapeno, Serrano, Tabasco, Thai Hot.
--- Intense Heat: Carolina Reaper, Trinidad Maruga Scorpion, Trinidad Scorpion, Ghost-Bhut Jolokia, Jalafuego large Jalapeno, and the beautiful masquerade peppers.
and unique: Fooled You Jalapeno Hybrid, Numex Suave Orange and Red Cheese Peppers.
At least 32 varieties of peppers, if I remembered them all. Almost 1,500 pepper plants.
Weeding the garlic by hand is a LONG slow process but is necessary to ensure the health of the garlic - so the weeds do not over shadow the garlic plants. And then it makes it much easier to harvest the garlic when it's free of weeds. Over 30,000 bulbs of garlic - need to be kept weed free. Fun times.
Planting: This spring has been long and cool. The weather was very cold earlier this week, about 37 degrees, so we had to keep the plants in the green house for a little longer. We had begun to plant last week, Thursday - two rows of large pumpkin - plants. Fortunately the cold didn't harm the little transferred plants.
Rick and I spent all day Tuesday planting various gourds and herb plants. Plus thousands of seeds for herbs and fall gourds, squash and pumpkins. We hope that our cilantro, basil, parsley, and chives thrive so we can bring fresh herbs to the market this summer. Oh my, how did I forget planting over 350 tomato plants. We returned our focus to the little tomatoes that our market customers know and love: The little tiny sweet tomato that we have been growing for several years - even though we are not certain of the variety - but it's sweet as sugar can be in candy. An Artisan Mix, Amish Gold and Beefsteak tomatoes and the Tomatoberry Tomato.
Wednesday, FORTUNATELY, fortunately our daughter had the day off work, so we enlisted the help of Amanda for the day. Thursday Rick and I continued with the planting on our own. Wednesday and Thursday we planted cucumbers, squash etc in the upper portion of the south field. Then we moved down into the lower portion of the south field. In the lower portion we decided to once again keep our focus on peppers. We planted at least 36 plants of each variety of peppers and sometimes more than 48 plants:
Sweets: Alma Paprika, Cherry Sweet, Cubanelle, Gypsy, Pimento, Sweet Banana and a colorful variety of bell peppers.
Heats: Ancho Pablano, Banana-hot, Big Jim, Cayenne, Cherry Bomb, Chili peppers large and small, Garden Salsa, Habernero, Hungarian Hot wax, Jalapeno, Serrano, Tabasco, Thai Hot.
--- Intense Heat: Carolina Reaper, Trinidad Maruga Scorpion, Trinidad Scorpion, Ghost-Bhut Jolokia, Jalafuego large Jalapeno, and the beautiful masquerade peppers.
and unique: Fooled You Jalapeno Hybrid, Numex Suave Orange and Red Cheese Peppers.
At least 32 varieties of peppers, if I remembered them all. Almost 1,500 pepper plants.
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