Sorry about the lack of posts; I will try to one update to cover the last few days and then will start posting daily again.

Last week we worked on fertilizing the peach trees; there are tons of tiny peaches on them which means that we need to thin the fruit.

We also worked on the electric fence last week. Pretty soon it will be difficult for the deer to get into the crops and do damage (at least we hope so.)

Since it was rainy last week, we did more transplanting:

Tomatoes:

• Big Beef

Peppers:

• Giant Marconi – an 8 inch long Italian type sweet pepper
• Telica – a large jalapeno
• Bianca – an ivory bell pepper
• Vivaldi – a bell pepper
• Mandarin – an orange sweet bell pepper
• Ariane – an orange sweet bell pepper

Eggplant:

• Zebra – a purple and white variegated eggplant
• Hansel – a deep purple finger shaped eggplant
• Millionaire
• Machiaw – an Asian type eggplant up to twelve inches long and slender
• Vittoria – a purple eggplant

It was way too rainy to even think about doing field work so we concentrated on transplanting tomatoes from seed flats to peat pots. The following varieties were worked on today:

These ones we have tried

• Our secret delectable Magicland Farms variety
• Aunt Gertie’s Gold – a heirloom variety that produces very tasty tomatoes

These are new varieties for us

• Stump O’ the World – a large pink heirloom
• Delicious – developed by Burpee from their Beefsteak tomato
• Rocky – a heirloom paste or sauce tomato
• Virginia Sweets – an heirloom gold/red bicolor tomato
• Giant Belgium – a large dark pink heirloom variety
• Aunt Ginny’s – a purple heirloom variety

We also transplanted some eggplant:

• Primetime
• Cloud Nine – a white eggplant
• Vittoria
• Night Shadow
• Nadia