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tomato planting time
- March 4, 2023
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The beginning of March = the beginning of tomato plantings for us.
As the tunnel’s crops get harvested, the ground is tilled and compost added.
We are super high-tech here and always use the newest and greatest, so the 60-year-old bushel baskets are used to move the compost around.
(No that’s not a typo. The baskets were bought around 1980. Probably. Maybe 1960.)
Since we continuously plant one crop after another, we have to stay on top of making sure there are enough nutrients available in the ground for the plants.
And compost is our solution. We don’t use any other fertilizer.
And thanks to that compost, even in our heavy clay soils, the crops grow big, beautiful, and tasty.
In the background are rows of snap peas.
I have a devil of a time getting the pods to show up in pictures. They blend in or are blurry.
So here is an opportunity to either play I-Spy or for you to take my word for it that there are snap peas growing.
Reminder: Flower share sign-ups open Saturday, March 11th at 9 am. Sign up through the CSA website, in person, or over the phone.
Some seasonal inspiration:
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Completely surrounded by suburbia, our small farm has been growing beyond expectations since 1832, just north of Wilmington, Delaware.
Growing a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, and flowers, Highland Orchards provides true “farm fresh” for the community all year. If you want to shake the hand of the farmer who grows for you, here is the farm! With plants in the ground or under cover in tunnels, we grow for every season. A family farm, we have three different generations involved in running the farm right now.
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