Since it is so warm, we went down to the farm to open the high tunnel. The first photo shows a view of the high tunnel with the sides open. See the plants inside? They look great! The second photo gives you a better view of the growth inside the tunnel. We took off the low tunnel that you saw in the pictures last week.

Here is a look at the pea field.

The beans don’t look like much right now but just wait. This warm weather should be encouraging growth.

Because of the freeze on Mother’s Day weekend, the potatoes were set back a bit. They sure look good now. The bags you see in the photo were used to mark the rows; we don’t need them anymore but haven’t taken them out yet.

Have a guess what this might be? A tent city perhaps? Actually each one of those tents houses a giant pumpkin plant. We used agribon fabric over hoops to make the tent. This will protect the pumpkin plant from all sorts of things and give them a good headstart. Hopefully we will get some giants out of these plants. Hopefully one will set a new record for us.

That’s all for now; check back next week for our latest photo tour.

(A picture of our garlic thriving in the field)

Today was spent planting a few different things. Our next patch of green and yellow beans was planted today. We already have one patch of beans (both green and yellow) planted that are growing very well. Hopefully they will keep on thriving and we will have early beans for sale.

Also we planted more of Bon Appetit sweet corn. Bon Appetit is a great flavored sweet corn with large ears. Can’t wait to have some!

More tomatoes were planted. The first patch we planned for the tomatoes is now full so our next planting work will be in the second patch in the near future.

The onions and the garlic were also fertilized today, along with some work on the electric fence.