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First CSA Boxes!

May 11th, 2008
Four Frog Farm | Blog

Whew. That was a busy week. I harvested, packed and delivered for 18 families this week, in addition to the madness that is May.

This is prime planting season right now, because the soil has warmed to a suitable 70-75 degrees. So, now we can direct seed corn, cucumbers, melons, watermelons, basil, squash, winter squash, and a great many other vegetables.

So, throw the CSA into Monday and Wednesday, and planting, and maintenance, and that makes me a busy boy.

We are getting nice, huge heads of broccoli…the early work of prowling for cutworms has payed off!!! The interesting thing is…the broccoli I planted in March had a lot of cutworm action…the broccoli I planted third week of March got harassed by the birds, but the broccoli planted end of March was problem free and it looks like that planting (about 110 plants) is going to be the best of all.

Tags: basil, broccoli, corn, CSA, cucumber, cutworms, may, melons, squash, vegetables, watermelons, winter squash

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Cutworms. What can you do?

April 7th, 2008
Four Frog Farm | Blog

They like tomatoes also. Not just the brassicas. Well, the time to get them is at night, when they’re out feeding, but if a midnight run to the farm field doesn’t sound appealing (and it really doesn’t anymore), then I just dig around the base of the victimized veggie plant, find the little critter, and send him to greener pastures in some other place and time.

A month or two ago, losing a plant was devastating. Now, it’s just a part of it all. I know everything is going to work out. That doesn’t mean let the gophers keep popping the kale plants; rather, I put the energy out to stopping them, and it all works out.

Hopefully it works the same way monetarily. I’m sure it will.

Tags: brassicas, critter, cutworms, farm, gophers, kale, losing, monetary, night, pest, tomatoes, veggie

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