What's Coming Up in the Fields – May 2016

April and May are the months when many crops are seeded or transplanted. Take a walk with us through the fields.

Italian Parsely seedlings break up the brown soil with rows of green.

Nearby to the parsley are rows of Fennel.

The lettuce crops have been bountiful this spring.

A nice, healthy Basil plant just about ready for harvest.

We have three crops of Summer Squash all at various stages.

Still small, these are one of the other crops of Summer Squash.

These French Breakfast Radishes are pushing their shoulders up out of the soil.

The Cucumbers are sizing up.

Potatoes are just a couple of weeks away from harvest.

The plants also produce lovely blossoms.

A Broccoli head will be ready in about two weeks.

The first Golden Raspberries of the season.

The Red Raspberry vines are loaded this year.

The Strawberries have been producing for about a month now. We had some initial difficulty with soft spots from the rains, but the plants are sizing up nicely.

These young Santa Rosa plums will have turned purple and be ready for harvest by mid-June.

Tomato seedlings were transplanted before one of the recent rains. We dry-farm them, so their roots are following the water down into the soil.

Pepper seedlings are sown at the same time as tomatoes. The first peppers will be ready around the end of July.

The Apples are ready to be thinned, which helps them reach a decent size. These Fujis won't be ready until the end of September.

Two days a week, after the harvesting is done, we set up in the barn to pack our CSA Shares full of the goodness the Farm provides. Thank you for taking this walk with us.