I am hotter, dirtier, smellier and more tired than I have been for this entire adventure thus far. We have been pushing this past couple of weeks to get as much as we can done before we start harvesting food. Because once we start harvesting, there won't be as much time to get plants in the ground, weed, hoe, fertilize and water...
This week's focus has been on tomatoes (and not getting heat rash in weird places)...we have planted at least 500. For each plant we dig a hole (shovel-deep), plant, then cover with straw mulch (it keeps the heat and water in and weeds out. that and tomatoes are susceptible to soil-born funk and the mulch protects them from that), add stakes in the ground and then trellis them.
We seeded all the winter squash and pumpkins today...and are busy trying to keep weeds out of everywhere. Our first distribution is next week! I am quite ready to begin feeding people and seeing results from all of our work...
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some gratitude from a shareholder: thank you for the beautiful vegetables i get to start eating next week! i am excited to visit you (and them) tomorrow. xoxo
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