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Kale under cover

25 Jun 202310 Jun 2023 by Mike (tfb)
Kale and Brussels sprouts under row cover

Kale and Brussels sprouts are tucked away under floating row cover (with straw-mulched garlic in the back). This is usually to protect them from flea beetles that can devour the seedlings. This year, unfortunately, it’s also a deterrent to the … Read the rest

Categories 2023 from the start, Pests & Disease, Tools, Veggies Tags Brussels sprouts, flea beetle, garlic, groundhogs, kale, mulch, row cover, Spring 1 Comment

First salad greens of the outdoor season

19 May 2016 by Mike (tfb)
First brassica greens from the field

The season’s first field planting of salad greens, making a brief public appearance from under row cover, where they’re in flea beetle protection – we’re weeding today. Mustards, bok choi, arugula (a brassica relative), mizunas and more. So perfectly tasty, … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Veggies Tags arugula, bok choi, flea beetle, greens, mizuna, mustard, weeding 3 Comments

Greens, protected!

12 Oct 201818 May 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Brassica greens under row cover

Floating row cover, weighed down and made semi-transparent by water, is all that stands between fine young brassica greens and the scourge of the flea beetle. The cover is placed right after seeding, weighed down by rocks every 12.5′ feet, … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Pests & Disease, Seed starting, Tools, Veggies Tags brassicas, flea beetle, frost protection, greens, row cover Leave a comment

In the greenhouse: bok choi vs flea beetle

4 Dec 202129 Apr 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Bok choi vs flea beetle

Everyone loves the greenhouse! The warmth, the wind break…crops, weeds, all plants love it in here. Now it seems flea beetles have acquired the taste as well. For whatever reason, the FBs usually stayed out of the (much smaller) little … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Greenhouse, Pests & Disease, Veggies Tags bok choi, flea beetle 3 Comments

Working around steel

6 Apr 201614 May 2015 by Mike (tfb)
Bed preparation and hoophouse steel

Exactly where it was delivered last fall, the steel for the new hoophouse is kinda in the way, so we’re working around it (it doesn’t look like much in the pic, but it will expand into 30’x108’x16’H of plastic-covered year-round … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Greenhouse, People, Tools Tags bed preparation, flea beetle, greens, Lisa, row cover, Spring Leave a comment
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