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2010 Season - Farm &
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4/17 - We are off to a
late start this year as a result of being busy with seed orders along
with it being a fairly wet spring. We all got out and tilled, mowed,
weeded and got the berries up. |
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4/17 - Tomato seedlings
are underway. They were sown between 4/7 and 4/10 so they are all
just starting to germinate.
This year I decided to
utilize the space in the old cabin since it is insulated and easy to
regulate the temperature in. I moved in a rack, hooked shop lights
to the underside of the shelves, and maintained the temperature at about
80F. |
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5/8 - Got back outside and Denise and I finished
weeding the berries and I tilled cover crop into the kitchen garden. John
got the big gardens out in the field mowed and ready for me to till as soon as
it dries out enough to get the tractor on.
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5/8 - Finished up getting
the tomato seedlings potted and into the greenhouse. Of course,
the weather took a turn and we had a couple of nights of freezing
weather.
Using only that little
Toyo Stove kerosene heater, I was able to keep it above 50F at overnight
on about a pint of fuel. |
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5/12 - Busy day! After getting orders and
office work out of the way, I got outside about noon and started in. Took
me a while to get the old 1964 IH 606D started as it had been sitting all winter
and both batteries were completely dead. Once I got the batteries charged
a bit, it fired right up and I got all of the gardens tilled. I then
worked until dark clearing brush, cutting out a few dead trees, weed-wacking,
and mowing. It was a gorgeous day and that helped to give me a ton of
energy. I was a bit sore the next morning :) |
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6/21 - Tomato plants set and various crops sown. |
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8/4 - The garden is finally kicking into full
gear. |
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10/21 - It was a challenging gardening year hear
in the Northern Willamette Valley. We had an extremely wet spring which
delayed planting. Additionally, we had a wet start to fall which created
harvest challenges as well. The above
pictures were taken after we had finished our tomato harvest (well, we really
weren't done but hard frosts ended the season for us). We were still
working on the pole beans and got the last of the cucurbits in. All things
considered, it was an acceptable season. It certainly could have been
worse :) |
