. . . and we will be celebrating with Lake City Farm’s First Annual Harvestfest. Please check out the Lake City Farm homepage or Lake City Farm’s facebook page for more information and RSVP so we can plan accordingly.
The harvest is slowing down somewhat. This last week we decided to let some of the root crops and greens have another week of growth before the last CSA harvest. We did harvest most of our tomato crop. It has become a question of whether or not the tomatoes will ripen on the vine before being damaged by frost. The overnight temperatures are hovering near zero these days and even though the Murray Hill garden tomato crop are somewhat protected from frost it seems prudent to begin picking even green tomatoes rather than lose them. Of course, the ‘critters’ that love to feast in our garden have an eye for what is ripe. The nice, big juicy red tomatoes seem to be the preferred snack for various slugs and worms, so beating them to the punch and harvesting green tomatoes was also in our minds.
We are currently reviewing what ‘worked’ and what didn’t with the various garden plots this year. We are also assessing whether or not some expansion will be possible next season. We’ve had offers of land from folks wanting to see their property used for growing food and requests from others wishing to be included in the CSA program next year. Our preference is to be able to provide more veggies per CSA customer than we were able to this last year and some kind of expansion would help with this. Still working on it . . .
While we will likely be harvesting a diminishing quantity of greens from the gardens well into November, we will very soon be putting most of the beds ‘to bed’ for the winter after prepping them for next year’s growing season. Of course, there are other projects we would like to tackle before the snow flies – a solar greenhouse for one – but so far time and money haven’t accumulated in sufficient amounts. We’ll keep planning . . .
