April Update

April was a good and bad month on the farm. Things have been pretty busy so I have not been able to update the blog lately. These photos were taken a couple weeks ago, so they don't fully convey the prolific growth of the crops at joes farm. I will be updating again soon so that you can see with you own eyes what happens on joes farm. Below are a few photos to get you caught up. The bad things that have happened on the farm have been caused by the winds. We had a few days with extreme winds. One day we had gusts around 70 mph. The beans did not like that and got a little beat up. One of the cucumber plants took a real beat down and may not pull through. We will just have to wait and see.

Pictures:

1. this is a potato plant that I got started in the pantry.

2. This is a tomato plant that is growing out of the main composter at the i care organics composting facility

3. these are all the containers that I am working with tomatoes, cucs, beans, cantaloupe, and watermelon.

4. These are the beans that I am growing.

5. This is the main field. If you saw it now you would not recognize it. Tommie's in the back. Peppers and watermelon up front.

6. Here is a close up of some blossoms on the tomato plant. I only have a few tomatoes forming right now. i did some research and apparently it is too cool at night for fruit to set yet. That is science.

7.This is field #2. These are some flowers, corn, and other varieties of tomatoes. I got the flowers to try and attract some more bees to the fields. the marigolds are also supposed to keep some pests away from the tomato plants but i don't know what pests. there are a couple cantaloupe and watermelon plants in the rear of field #2.