They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
Yesterday was a very truncated day at the farm, but we still managed to get a good chunk of work done. The tomatoes have been splitting like crazy with all the rain we've been getting, but we still managed to pick three buckets of good ones. Ellie is such a good little tomato washer! We… Continue reading Autumn Pumpkins
Busy day in the garden today. Still having issues with blossom end rot on the tomatoes, and then, with all the rain we’ve gotten for the last two days a bunch of them are starting to split. Pigs made out like bandits. Still several quarts worth saving. Ellie washed them and we cored them to… Continue reading I been picking beans
A very productive day of garden yesterday. All kinds of harvesting going on. Tomato yield has been improving, we were able to get four quarts of sauce tomatoes in the freezer. We had about twice that many with end rot on them, so we are going to treat them with calcium again as soon as… Continue reading ‘Maters and Corns and Beans, Oh my!
We sent the kids out to pick tomatoes yesterday. I guess you could call this mission success. And ten minutes later… “Daddy, let me in, I picked some more!” Oh, and a bunch of grapes that they were Not supposed to pick, but somehow it got picked anyway. So… Anyone want some snacking tomatoes?
A beautiful heirloom marriage, without a trace of blossom end rot. Four days after treating the tomatoes for blossom, end rot with the lime, the “end rot“ spray that we ordered from Amazon finally arrived. By that time we were already starting to see a bunch of well formed sauce tomatoes without end rot, although… Continue reading Tomato update.
Video post, in which I talk about what is going wrong with our tomatoes, what we are trying to do to fix it, and what we plan on doing differently next year. https://youtu.be/C_yCOsCbIBA
