We transplanted onions and leeks today. We are about two weeks ahead of schedule and with plants from Delaware, not the greenhouse. We started seed ourselves, but formidable pest problems caused us to look for another option. Earlier this year Cait noticed an ad for a farm that sells transplants in Growing For Market. I [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Good soil is like good sushi, buttery and smooth
Posted in In the field, tagged dibbler, leeks, onions on April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Rocky Mountain Garlic
Posted in Ramblings, tagged garlic on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our Garlic is mostly up now. At 8,000 ft, it emerged almost two months after that of our friends down in Ft. Collins at about 5,300ft. The first greens of spring are always a welcome sight no matter where you farm. The garlic made it through the winter and is off and running. The snow [...]
Local Fertility
Posted in Soil/Fertility, tagged Planters II on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Planters II is a soil amendment that is mined in Wellsville, just south of Salida. Juniper and I went down to the production facility on Tuesday and picked up 19 five-gallon buckets. The metamorphic rock is from an old fresh water lake bed that was heated by geothermal activity during the uplift of the Rocky [...]
Beware of Flying Compost
Posted in Machines, Tractors and Tools, tagged compost, tractor on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first Farmhands program was scheduled for Saturday the 12th, but was canceled due to adverse weather conditions. The clouds were hanging low when I got up and by 9am it was nearly a white out. I thought my plans would also be delayed and so I watched the garden turn [...]
Cutting Potato Seed
Posted in Machines, Ramblings, Videos, tagged potato, small farms on April 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the past I have gone the the Mosca Pit Stop to pick up our potato seed order. White Mountain Farm runs part of the building as a packing and distribution center for their potatoes. It is an intriguing little establishment in the middle of the San Luis Valley. You can [...]
Maybe it will be a good melon year?
Posted in CSA, Ramblings, tagged potato, spring on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m driving down to Rockey Farm tomorrow to pick up potato seed. Weathervane Farm, Javernick Family Farms,and Colona Comunity Farm all put our orders in together to get a bulk deal and that means 1,300 lbs. in the bed of the Tacoma. It is hard to think about planting potatoes while the temperature is forecasted [...]
