It has been way way way too long since I uploaded any good field photos here. The last ones were the storm aftermath, and of course things have dramatically improved since then. Casey and I took a nice leisurely walk through the fields at dusk last Sunday evening, just before the heat really hit on Monday. These are the most up-to-date photos I have, and yet things have already grown tons in the intervening warm days! …
Lots and lots of onions, growing quickly in all this heat and with our plentiful irrigation water.
Casey standing in our large potato planting. We will primarily harvest these for fall and winter eating, but we ‘sampled’ some fresh Yukon golds with our dinner the other night — so delicious!!!!! The potatoes are kicking butt this year.
Our melon plants are struggling right now, but they’ve still set tons of beautiful fruit which is ripening even as I write this. Soon!
Our tomato houses. The plants are loaded with ripening fruit.
A very tidy section of our field … front and center is our bed of popcorn (probably a foot and a half taller now), surrounded by some other succession crops: beets, a small patch of potatoes, carrots, broccoli, and to the far left our much taller sweet corn (ears forming now!!!!).
One of our many cover-cropped fields. The white flowers are blooming buckwheat (mown down yesterday), but this field also contains clover and some grasses.
A very happy farmer.
