We spend quite a lot of time pruning tomato plants. We grow indeterminate tomato varieties. These vining types respond well to training. Our goals are to increase the yield of beautiful tomatoes and to reduce plant disease by increasing air flow through the foliage.
Entries Tagged as 'Farm Work'
What potatoes and raspberries have in common.
May 20th, 2009 Comments Off
It has been several weeks since I wrote a general farm update. Since then we’ve planted, weeded, given our spring school tours, harvested our first crops, started our vegetable starts sales, opened the farmstand, welcomed our first Farm Tots, and signed up more Free Choice CSA members. We’ve been very busy, and pretty much stayed on [...]
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A month of unforgiving deadlines and green releaf.
April 26th, 2009 Comments Off
Here we are already, closing in on the end of April. I haven’t written here in a while, partially because we have been more than busy on the farm working to stay on schedule, and partially because my writing urges have been directed at Twitter. Now that my blog has this spiffy new home, I’ll [...]
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Today Spring Fever officially arrived at the farm.
February 28th, 2009 Comments Off
I’m sitting at my desk on a Saturday afternoon, trying to work on the greenhouse starts planting schedule, and making no progress at all. It feels just like Spring Fever back in high school days, but it is still February.
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