A quick farm update, but first an announcement or two…
The season will start the week of June 20th. I will be sending out pick-up instructions soon. If you don’t receive them by Wednesday June 15th please check your spam folder, which seems to be where much of my emails end up. If you still can’t find it please contact me and I will resend it.
There is still time to order ‘Shrooms and coffee. Not sure how well they’d go together but feel free to give it a try!
That’s it for announcements.
Farm News
Many of you have written in to point out the flaw in the sock six-pack problem. To reiterate the problem, I felt that socks should be sold in seven packs — one for each day of the week — and that I solved the problem by buying seven six packs thus giving me six weeks of seven pairs of socks. I thought that was quite clever. However there is a flaw in this logic. To be able to wear clean socks on wash day I would need eight pairs of socks. To illustrate lets assign our socks to specific days of the week and say that we do laundry on Sunday. If I am wearing my Sunday socks on laundry day they are not getting washed. Therefore next laundry day, which would be the following Sunday I would not have clean Sunday socks to wear while doing laundry! But if I had eight pairs of socks and named two of them Sunday socks I would always have a clean pair of Sunday socks on laundry day. This is the type of thing you think about while cultivating with the tractor. And you thought this wasn’t farm related.
In other farm related news, we’ve had a good string of nice farming weather. It has been a bit on the windy side, well more like a lot on the windy side. I feel this is one of the windier springs we’ve had in a while. The downside is since the air has been comfortably dry the wind take a lot of the moisture out of the earth so these infrequent rains don’t provide nearly enough moisture. But our irrigation is keeping up without too many issues.
On the positive side, I feel like this blustery weather has blown many of the flea beetles to another county! There certainly seems to be fewer of them. It could be the rain we got as well — about a half inch. Nonetheless, any decrease in pests is a positive in my eyes.
Speaking of pests, we saw a couple of fawns hanging out by our pond. They sure look cute — until they start eating all the peas! I’m hoping they find some other place to feast.
For the most part the crops are looking great! The tomatoes in the hoop house are over knee high and flowering. The lettuce is looking tasty — especially the ones the gophers and squirrels ate. The summer squash are flowering though they are all males flowers so far. All-in-all it has been a pretty good Spring.
That’s pretty much it. I only wrote this newsletter to let people know when the season will start. I didn’t have much else to say so filling it up with all these words was pretty surprising to me!
Joke of the week:
What is a zucchini’s favorite sport?
Squash.