We love garlic and fortunately, garlic loves us. I've grown nice garlic for a number of years now and in this profession so prone to disappointments, it has always lifted my spirits because of its small effort to grow. This week I expect to pull a 4x96 bed of a German stiff neck variety for harvest. … [Read more...]
Wk 28 Training Tomatos
I don't know what went wrong this year with the tomato seedlings but something happened at the very beginning. Typically I start 100 mixed variety cherry and grape tomato seedlings in peat pellets in domed trays on heat mats in the beginning of April but some how the pellets got moldy. They could … [Read more...]
Get Magazine article July 08 issue
We consumers are getting stung and it’s finally making us look to our own backyard for relief. And that’s the wonderful thing about Rhode Island; it is one big backyard of vegetable, fruit, meat and dairy farms. If that plate of mesclun greens you are eating is hauled in from Exeter, Rhode Island … [Read more...]
Wk 27 Summer Lettuce
Started two new lettuce beds in Garden #2 to succeed early spring hoop house lettuce which was seeded mid Apr. with first successive harvest beginning in Jun. Expect to get 4- 5 weeks of harvest from current planting if the weeds don't overtake us. Summer lettuce is very tricky as it tends to" bolt … [Read more...]
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