What a great Memorial Day weekend! It was extremely busy and very productive. We put plastic on hoop house #2 on Saturday morning and then worked in some compost and filled it up with strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries. On Monday, we finally got to start planting in the outdoor fields, they are still very wet in places, as I was reminded this afternoon as I buried the tractor up to the front axle trying to (stupidly) plow a furrow across a very low spot. Fortunately, before losing use of the tractor until things dry up, I did get quite a bit of drier ground worked and we have gotten potatoes, sweet corn, and beans in, and are hoping to get most of the transplants in over the next couple of days as well.
While the weather has delayed a lot of the planting outside, we did get the first two rounds of hoop house vegetable planting in and those plants are looking good. I am optimistically hoping for the first CSA pickups to be the week of June 23, but will keep everyone updated as we go!
Orchard
The Macs, Primas and Red Delicious were in full bloom last week and were beautiful! The Spys and Golden Delicious are a bit later and are coming out now. As part of our organic pest control we recently spent a Saturday afternoon placing 800 mating disruption ties in the trees. These plastic ties are laced with pheromones that confuse the male Codling Moths and Oriental Fruit Moths and prevent them from hooking up with their female friends and as a result we have fewer moth eggs/larvae to deal with.
