It’s Halloween and the scariest thing we could think to do is plant garlic! Today we planted 4 raised beds of garlic that each hold about 200 cloves. This is double last year’s production and the majority of what we planted came from garlic we actually grew last year. To plant garlic, you break apart […]
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In only 2 beds, we managed to get a whole bunch of potatoes. I’m not sure if the weight is accurate since our scale is broken, but that is a guesstimate of just how many potatoes we were able to harvest. Check out the brief video below….
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Sep
Sep
The potatoes are finally ready for harvest and so are the leeks. That can only mean one thing – vichyssoise for dinner! Or leek potato soup for those of us who can’t spell, let alone pronounce the French (I think) word. Anyway, here’s how I make it, but as long as you have some mixture […]
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Sep
Sep
The other day I said to Spink, “You know, we could just stop planting.” We considered that for about a day, then today, we were out there prepping 4 more beds for planting greens. Maybe it’s the cool weather that’s encouraging us (it’s good for greens, which are also short cycle crops and should make […]
It’s been a busy summer at Bay Branch Farm! Here are some updated pics of what’s growing. This is what we are bringing to market these days! Stop by and check it out.
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Jul
Jul
Well, the dog days of summer have arrived and the garlic tops have started to yellow and fall over. It’s time to harvest! Last fall, we used ag fabric as mulch and used a torch to put holes in the fabric for the garlic bulbs. We had some trepidation in harvesting it given this experiment, […]
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Jun
Jun
I wanted to share some comments about how we harvest our veggies. Since we are following the SPIN method, we harvest using our garden cart right over the rows. We generally each take a side and put the produce into a plastic tub placed in the garden cart. It is hard to believe, but we […]
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Jun
Jun
We have been pleasantly surprised by the success of many of our beds, especially considering the poor quality of our soil (mostly clay) and the numerous rocks that still plague us! While we’ve had to scrap a few beds due to poor germination, the bulk of the rows have really produced. For example, last week […]
Sunday, May 23rd we turned over two of our beds. We harvested the radish bed, pulled out more rocks (will the rock picking ever end???) and added some compost before planting more radishes. The other bed we turned over because we ended up with poor germination of our carrots and decided to start over from […]
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May
May
Below is a view of the 21 beds we have planted. The green ones are ready to harvest or are in mid-harvest now.