Message from the farmers
The fall veggies continue to come in with good quantities across the board so we have a head of Broccoli and Cauliflower for both shares again this week. Only the warmer type veggies like tomatoes are not as happy with the cooler nights and frequent sprinkles of rainfall. Supplies of this have dropped dramatically so we have only a few cherry tomato varieties for the full shares for this week.
We have completed the last of our outdoor plantings of transplants and have begun to seed some vegetable items inside our greenhouses. This morning we started to re-cover one of our larger greenhouses with new sheets of Plastic. This is required after a number of years, (usually 4-5 years) to replace worn and cracked sheets of polyethylene. The plastic we use on greenhouse coverings is a special agricultural grade plastic that is heavier (6 thousandths of an inch in thickness) and (UV) sunlight resistant, as compared to ordinary plastic sheeting.
It’s a labor intensive task and will take us several days of work to complete all four sections on this particular house. It has been (9) years since we last replaced the plastic covering on this greenhouse, and we were very fortunate to have gone that long with the old sheets. While it isn’t recommended to go that long between changes, I’m happy to have stretched the ‘mileage’ I get from some of our greenhouse plastic. It’s almost like shutting your car motor off and coasting to a stop sign that’s (10) miles away when you’re only traveling at 30 mph on flat ground to begin with.
Sometimes it works and sometimes you just plain give yourself a HEART ATTACK when you realize, the power steering and brakes aren’t working quite so well with the engine off, or your baby plants just got visited by Mr. Frosty after one of the plastic sheets blew off.
Be well,
Fred & Karen
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