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Missed a market…

October 3rd, 2009
Hand Sown Homegrown Heritage Farm | Blog

Wondering if there were any customers in Bainbridge Island searching for me today, as I didn’t vend at that market. I felt that this weeks tomato harvest was a bit too small to divide. We keep a lot back from the markets in order to give our CSA the best of our efforts. I look forward to the year that we’re working along side others farming. After re-reading the blog about the Tomato Taste Off, I am sorry to say that I didn’t state that I wish I would of had more time to do a better job with the contest. A bit bummed on how it went down, this year has been a very busy one for us. Today our sales in Poulsbo jumped up quite a bit from last week. Many market vendors and workers purchased from us today. It’s inspiring to be apart of a such a wonderful market and community.

Side thought. The tomatoes are leaving us real soon. Lots of plants down and out. All of our outside tomatoes are done. Dispite the nice growth of the plants, their health turned south during my time away on tour. The pacific northwest, I was told received lots of rains earlier this month along with low nighttime temperatures. I got home to diseased plants but not before we finished up a fifth or sixth round of harvesting off of some of the heirloom varieties.

Tags: heirloom tomatoes, market, Poulsbo Farmers Market, Bainbridge Island

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Heirloom Tomatoes

August 28th, 2009
Four Frog Farm | Blog

So many heirloom tomatoes. I don’t know what to do with them all.

Tags: heirloom tomatoes

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Greenhouse Tomatoes

April 19th, 2009
DeepSeeded Community Farm | Blog

Here on the Humboldt coast, where summer high temps are in the 60’s, the only reliable way to get good tomato harvests is in a greenhouse. So, knowing how popular tomatoes are, I put up two big 30’ x 96’ coldframes for the tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants (I also use them to start seedlings and grow winter salads). The upsides to greenhouse tomatoes are that: 1. They actually produce on the coast, 2. I can get them in the ground nice and early, and 3. They keep producing into… Read the rest of this article »

Tags: greenhouse, heirloom, tomatoes, coastal

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Tomato Time!

April 9th, 2009
Hand Sown Homegrown Heritage Farm | Blog

There’s been a lot of action around here this week due to the short break in the weather. Good days of dry sunny weather are very few and far between here in the cool spring of the Pacific Northwest, so when you get a dry spell you work as much as you possibly can. More about what we’ve accomplished in the sun later(hello Flip Video!), but for right now I’d like to introduce you to our Heirloom Tomato Operation! This year marks our second year growing and selling Heirloom tomatoes… Read the rest of this article »

Tags: heirloom tomatoes, spring, tomato starts, tomato germination, propagation house, artichokes

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WA Weather - Wet

March 26th, 2009
Hand Sown Homegrown Heritage Farm | Blog

bed prep for onions/leeks transplants under agribond (notice the plastic is blown off our row cover) snow in March Farming in the wonderful Pacific Northwest is a good way to become mental. We love it; the weather really keeps things interesting and your “plans” ever changing. Here in Washington State it rains in spring. We are hunters and hopefuls for a mildly sunny, dry day. Last season in a single day we experienced sun, rain, sleet, and snow. This year back in February we experienced… Read the rest of this article »

Tags: arugula, cabbage, cover crop, garlic, heirloom tomatoes, leeks, lettuce, march, onions, peas, radishes, spinach, Kales, Salad Greens, Pac Choy, Tatsoi, Bok Choy, Broccoli Raab, row covers, 5 row seeder, eliot coleman, early spring

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Midsummer

July 16th, 2008
Four Frog Farm | Blog

This is a fun time of year. The CSA has rounded out to 30 members, and I like it there. We have 14 weeks left, so not quite halfway, but close. The tomatoes are producing well, and the heirlooms are making there way into the public scene. As for tomatoes, we are growing “early girl”, of course, but we also have green zebra, black zebra, pruden’s purple, cherokee purple, black from tula and striped german. They all produce fairly well, at least at the farm, even though their… Read the rest of this article »

Tags: Black From Tula, black zebra, cantaloupe, Cherokee Purple, CSA, early girl, green zebra, heirloom, melon, members, pruden's purple, Striped German, tomatoes

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Farm Update

July 3rd, 2008
Four Frog Farm | Blog

Now we have completed week nine of the CSA. This week we offered: tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, squash, carrots, lettuce mix, turnips, garlic, sweet corn!, kale and bulbing fennel. It was a good week, and next week is looking great also, with potatoes and leeks on the menu. It seems a little out of season to have potatoes and leeks, because I love potato-leek soup a lot, but, hey, those will be ready. Out at the farm, the tomatoes are really productive, yet could be looking better. … Read the rest of this article »

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