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Sweet potato harvest

28 Mar 20131 Oct 2008 by Mike (tfb)

From planting back in mid-June, it’s been 3-1/2 months to the sweet potato harvest. The variety, Beauregard, is listed as 80-100 days to maturity, although, like potatoes, you can dig them up anytime, as soon as the tubers have formed. … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, People, Fieldwork, Harvest, Tools Tags frost, sweet potato, timing, Autumn 11 Comments

Beautifying the good garlic

5 Oct 200825 Sep 2008 by Mike (tfb)

Toshiko, WWOOFing from Osaka, Japan, via Vancouver, where she’d been studying English for the last few months, is our last guest in the field of the year. She arrived last Friday night, and stays until a week from this Sunday, … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, People, Fieldwork, Harvest, Tools Tags garlic, frost, WWOOF, post-harvest, Autumn Leave a comment

First frost misses

3 Oct 200822 Sep 2008 by Mike (tfb)

Frost finally hit the garden…but it missed the veggies! Just after sunrise this morning, there was ice on the grass at the very bottom of the field, but it stopped maybe 10′ feet from where the garden begins. Pretty cool. … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Tools, Weather Tags frost, grass, Autumn 5 Comments

Last day of summer in the garden!

1 Oct 200821 Sep 2008 by Mike (tfb)

Here we are at the end of the calendar summer, a season of crazy weather largely gone by! Cooler fall conditions have been around for a couple of weeks now, with ample frost watch nights, so summer’s end at this … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Flowers, Weather Tags brassicas, frost, long shots, lettuce, carrot, herbs, beans, spinach, tomato, potato, peppers, eggplant, beet, Summer 2 Comments

Fall frost watch 2008

26 Sep 200815 Sep 2008 by Mike (tfb)

Tonight is the first real frost watch of the year. I covered a bunch of beds for a couple of nights last week, but the chance of frost seemed slim, with the overnight forecast around 35°F (<2°C). Today, they say … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Fieldwork, Tools, Weather Tags frost, row cover, peppers, eggplant, beans, Summer 3 Comments

Bean watch

14 May 201116 Aug 2008 by Mike (tfb)

The second bean planting is setting and sizing up nicely, but we didn’t have beans at the farmers’ market today, after a good first and second picking of the first crop over the last two weeks. With succession planting, snap … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Seed & Seedlings, Planning, Weather Tags frost, germination, succession planting, timing, beans, storage, Summer 3 Comments

Row cover everywhere

4 May 201627 May 2008 by Mike (tfb)
Row cover on spring transplants

It was impossible to capture all the floating row cover outposts scattered around the feel in just one shot. This pic shows maybe a third of the area under the light, white, spunbond polyester protection. Right now, it’s being used … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Fieldwork, Pests & Disease, Tools, Weather Tags frost, row cover, cucurbit, brassicas, Spring 2 Comments
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