Summer Crop

After months of tending to seedlings in the Deep Winter Greenhouse, everything is now out enjoying the warm summer temperatures and bright sun in the raised bed garden. We had a banner first year of spring lettuce and carrots growing within our hydroponic system in the greenhouse! So much that we were able to donate an entire basket-full of greens to Taproot as part of their Grow a Row program.

There were a few curve balls, as there always is, on the farm later in the spring that slowed down the process of getting our cooler temp-loving heirloom varieties (lettuce, kale, broccoli, chard, peas, carrots, radish) their full outdoor growing window, but we managed to get them out and they are currently thriving with some burlap shade covers!

Our warmer temp loving plants (tomatoes, cukes, squash, watermelon, zukes, several eggplant varieties, green beans, herbs, onions, chives, and Japanese mustard greens) are all doing their little happy dances in the summer breezes and growing away!

Even though it’s the beginning of July and it feels like summer just arrived here in the NEK, Lizzie is already busy planning and sowing fall and early winter seeds in the greenhouse so that they will be ready to transplant outside as the summer crops start to transition out.

The farmstand is nearly complete and will be ready to be stocked soon!