Hello Everyone,
I delivered our off-Chappy flower shares today and the island is hopping out there! I hope you are all staying out of the fray and getting in lots of ocean dips.
Our stand was so busy on Saturday we closed an hour early. I restocked at 2 PM and when I returned at 3:45, it was as if the hords had descended. Everything was cleared out, except for one sad head of lettuce and a bunch of turnips. We were happy to pack up and head home, where I promptly took an outdoor shower in the rain, rejoicing at all the much-needed moisture!
We had a greenhouse head-scratcher this week. For the past few weeks, Peter and I have noticed a bit of munching in the big hoophouse. Some of the dahlias were nibbled as well as a few of the serpent cucumber vines. It seemed odd: it looked like deer damage, but no way could a deer get into the house, walk through the tightly planted crops and not cause some serious destruction. Plus the openings are not big enough for a deer to pass through.
Or so we thought.
On Saturday, the damage was even worse and this time it was clearly deer. We finally found a few faint footprints to prove it. Amazingly, one (or perhaps several) was indeed sneaking in. We patched up a few low holes in the plastic and decided to only crack the sides open for ventilation during the day, as opposed to opening them wide as we normally do.
The plants should recover, but it may set the dahlias back a bit -- I was feeling particularly proud of these plants which I overwintered as an experiment. Usually dahlia bulbs are dug up in the fall and replanted in the spring. Because they overwintered and got a head start, the plants are well ahead of our field dahlias and are waist high. Or were, anyway, until the dumb deer passed through. There's always something!
Anyway, the crops are by and large looking good out there. As we say goodbye to our spring crops and hello to summer crops, this may be the last week for the sugar snap peas. The carrots are slow slow slow this year, but hoping they can make it in the shares by next week. Cukes and eggplant are just around the corner and I did have my very first cherry tomato yesterday. Plenty to fill your bags in the meantime!
I delivered our off-Chappy flower shares today and the island is hopping out there! I hope you are all staying out of the fray and getting in lots of ocean dips.
Our stand was so busy on Saturday we closed an hour early. I restocked at 2 PM and when I returned at 3:45, it was as if the hords had descended. Everything was cleared out, except for one sad head of lettuce and a bunch of turnips. We were happy to pack up and head home, where I promptly took an outdoor shower in the rain, rejoicing at all the much-needed moisture!
We had a greenhouse head-scratcher this week. For the past few weeks, Peter and I have noticed a bit of munching in the big hoophouse. Some of the dahlias were nibbled as well as a few of the serpent cucumber vines. It seemed odd: it looked like deer damage, but no way could a deer get into the house, walk through the tightly planted crops and not cause some serious destruction. Plus the openings are not big enough for a deer to pass through.
Or so we thought.
On Saturday, the damage was even worse and this time it was clearly deer. We finally found a few faint footprints to prove it. Amazingly, one (or perhaps several) was indeed sneaking in. We patched up a few low holes in the plastic and decided to only crack the sides open for ventilation during the day, as opposed to opening them wide as we normally do.
The plants should recover, but it may set the dahlias back a bit -- I was feeling particularly proud of these plants which I overwintered as an experiment. Usually dahlia bulbs are dug up in the fall and replanted in the spring. Because they overwintered and got a head start, the plants are well ahead of our field dahlias and are waist high. Or were, anyway, until the dumb deer passed through. There's always something!
Anyway, the crops are by and large looking good out there. As we say goodbye to our spring crops and hello to summer crops, this may be the last week for the sugar snap peas. The carrots are slow slow slow this year, but hoping they can make it in the shares by next week. Cukes and eggplant are just around the corner and I did have my very first cherry tomato yesterday. Plenty to fill your bags in the meantime!
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