June 01, 2005
Planting out peppers
The weather here is perfect for planting out warm stuff. Warm days and nights, sunny in the morning and rainy in the afternoon. We planted out red and yellow sweet peppers and Hungarian hot wax. The Hungarian hot wax are a medium hot orange pepper, and I'm already excited for orange salsa with Hungarian hot wax peppers and sun gold tomatoes. Yum.
We will still have red, yellow and orange sweet pepper seedlings, plus a few Hungarian hot wax, jalapenos and cayennes for sale this weekend -- Saturday 9-1 in Waitsfield or at the farm. We'll also be at the co-op in St. J on Friday from about 12-1. (We'll also have tomato seedlings, cucumbers, squash and other stuff.)
Some of our baby peppers were lucky enough to get a kiss goodnight from Waverly.
To read the blog, you might think Waverly is our main farm help. That's just because the only time we seem to remember to bring the camera is when Wavo comes out to help. Plus being with Waverly helps us slow down enough to remember how much fun we're having.
We actually have an awesome farm crew this season (all very part time). Here's Cat.
And Donna.
More about them and the rest of the farm crew later.
Posted by maryellen at June 1, 2005 05:59 AMI can't resist...Does Peter plan on pickling the pecks of peppers that he picks? :)
I drove by some pick-your-own strawberry stands last weekend in Kentucky and thought about all of you! Do you have a pick-your-own section of Old Shaw Farm to compliment the picked items that you sell at your farm stand?
Posted by: Dawn Kiely at June 3, 2005 09:25 AMThis looks like so much fun and hard work - i am way too much of a city girl to imagine how you do all of this! I can't wait to come see the results in August.
Posted by: Rae at June 7, 2005 01:40 PM