Big Juicy Melons

Joes Farms Loves Big Juicy Melons! 

Lucky for us, we just happen to have a pair of big juicy succulent melons here on Joes Farm. To the long time Joes Farm readers you might remember the melon harvest of '09. The '09 melons were plentiful, juicy and the finest of fine tasting melons in the history of cultivated melons. We at Joes Farm have never tasted such a fine melon.

Since that record setting inaugural melon harvest of '09 we have been struggling in the juicy melon department. We had exploding watermelons in 2010. The damn melons exploded then they were eaten by ants.

In 2011 we were battling squash bugs. Those asshole bugs seem to target any kind of vine type plant. I hate squash bugs. 2012 I don't recall what the hell happened. This year, things are different, so far.

I know what you are thinking, Joes Farm, what is different about this year. Well I will tell you. The difference is water. Turns out I was not watering fields 3 and 4 enough. I thought I was but I was not. I found out this spring when a wise gardener paid Joes Farm a visit in the early days of the 2013 growing season. When Joes Farm thought the water was adequate but it was not. Joes Farm took measures to increase the frequency of watering and we also used cutting edge technology to automate the task of irrigation.

Now, Check out the big juicy melons.

These are some older photos of the juicy melons that are growing as wee speak.

These are some current pictures of the big juicy melons. I like the way they look. The melon harvest of '09 produced the best tasting melon ever eaten. If these taste half as good we are going to be in good shape.

Happy Farming!

Love,

Joes Farm

Beet The Beets Up

Joes Farm Is Back!!!

After a short hiatus Joes Farm returns. I have been receiving feed back from avid Joes Farm readers from all over the world to please bring Joes Farm to its former glory. While I put the blog on hold the farm has been moving full steam ahead. We are constantly growing, cultivating, and nurturing Joes Farm.

The most recent win for Joes Farm was our first beet harvest. We started cultivating these beets from seed many, many moons ago. The beets are a Detroit Deep Dark Red and super delicious. These were one of our new test crops and based on the performance of this initial harvest Joes Farm will be inserting the Detroit Deep Dark Red and super delicious into the regular planting rotation. Joes Farm has also acquired some more exotic forms of beet seeds to test out on Joes Farm.

Joes Farm made a recent visit to Whole Foods. We normally don't need to purchase produce from Whole Foods but we wanted to run a head to head competition with high grade commercially raised organic USA Grade A+++ Beets. It would be the Whole Foods high grade commercially raised organic USA Grade A+++ Beets VS. Joes Farm Detroit Deep Dark Red and super delicious Beets.

From the start Joes Farm was out number by the empire of Whole Foods. It was a real David and Goliath situation. We purchased 2 bundles of 3 beets from Whole Foods and we harvested both beets from Joes Farm.

You can see from the photographic evidence below that Joes Farm beets and Whole Foods Beets were different colors. That is also what I noticed first too.

Once we harvested and cleaned the beets from Joes Farm and the beets from Whole Foods we greased them up, salted them, wrapped them in foil, and roasted them at 425 for damn near 2 hours. Keep in mind that these were some gigantic beets. We don't mess with no little beets on Joes Farm.

For everyone out there who is less experienced with beets than we are at Joes Farm You can easily peel the skin off the beets once you let them cool. It is important that you let them cool because they are probably 425 degrees when you take the out of the oven. Joes Farm Detroit Deep Dark Red and super delicious Beets were not as easy to peel the skin off of probably because they were a higher quality beet. After peeling them we put them in Joes Farm Refrigerator in some of Joes Farm Tupperware. The next day we went ahead and cut the beets up and ate them on a beet salad. It was outstanding. It turns out that Joes Farm Beets were neck and neck with Whole Foods high grade commercially raised organic USA Grade A+++ Beets.