Regular farm programming

Strange, but people seem to like pictures of the farm and Maryellen more than they like to read my political rants. So I brought the camera up to the field with me while I worked today. It was a beautiful June day, 75 degrees, dry, and clear.

View from the field

Potatoes coming up through a black plastic mulch. The plastic keeps the ground warm (potatoes like it hot -- they are originally from Central/South America), and it keeps the moisture in, and the weeds at bay.

Here are the sweet onions coming along.

Most of our tomatoes, peppers, melons and squash have been transplanted out. But then we cover them with remay, which is suspended over the plants with wire arches stuck in the ground. The remay is a spun plastic fabric that allows light in, but retains warmth and provides frost protection. Like the potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, melons, and squash like it hot. The remay also keeps some early season bugs off of the plants. But when they start to bloom, we will remove the remay so that the flowers can get pollinated.

And here is the stream that runs along the western border of the field.