Salad Harvest

I had a couple recent harvests of the fall crops. The first of the two harvests consisted of radishes, sugar snap peas, lettuce, and a carrot. I went ahead and used a store bought cucumber and made myself a salad with all of that. It was the best tasting salad in the history of the world. The heads of lettuce that we turn out on Joes Farm are not very large but they are organically grown, jam packed with vitamins and nutrients, and best of all they are delicious. The radishes that we have been harvesting at Joes Farm are bigger than golf balls and they are they most delicious radishes that I have ever tasted. They are a sweet and they have a little heat. Pretty much they are the perfect radish.

Today at Joes Farm we had our first spinach harvest. I just want to make it clear that this was no spinach harvest like they would have at Botto's spinach farm in Malone, NY, But it was pretty substantial as far as Joes Farm harvest's go. I went out to the field with a large mixing bowl and all i did was cut and pinch the leaves of some of the plants so they can keep producing. I was very surprised and overwhelmed with the amount that was harvested and it was not even half of the available spinach. I used half of it in a recipe to feed the farm staff this week and I half half of it left to do what ever I want to do with it. I can say with out a doubt in my mind that we have truly been blessed on Joes Farm today.

This is the first harvest mentioned above. A couple heads of lettuce and radishes.

This is a picture of the salad that I made. It was pretty delicious. You can also see my TV remote.

This is a bird's eye view of the colander of spinach.

This is a view from the side of the colander of spinach.

Spring is upon us

Spring has sprung over here at Joes Farm. There is so much activity on the farm I don't quite know where to begin. The new crop has been started. The winter crop is being harvested as needed. I just decided that I am going to cover the new crop in this post. I am going to discuss the latest harvests in a future post.

90% of the crop was started on January 26th and January 27th. A couple of tomato plants were started earlier. The list is pretty long. I went with a few different types of cucumbers. One is for eating and one is designed for pickling. The tomatoes, I hope, are going to be the crowning jewel of the farm this year. I have several different varieties this year. I have several heirloom varieties and several hybrid type tommies. I also, just hours ago, received a shipment from the good people over at totallytomatoes.com.

The seed shipment from totallytomatoes.com included some lilac hybrid peppers, strawberries, Christmas grape tomatoes and Bulgarian triumph tomatoes. The Bulgarian tomatoes came highly recommend from an actual Bulgarian. The are alleged by this Bulgarian to be the best tasting tomatoes in the world. Only time will tell. The good people at totallytomatoes.com also included two packages of free trial offer seeds. They contained the red alert tomato and the numex sunrise hot chili type pepper.

The crops that are already started include bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, Kentucky style green beans on the pole, Carolina cross watermelons that could weigh up to 200lbs, poblano peppers, cantaloupe, and broccoli.

This is some of the new crop on the window sill of the green house.

More of the crops in the green house on the table.

This is a birds eye view of the tomatoes that were started first.

This experiment right here is a sweet potato that started growing on the counter and I chopped and put in the water. we will just have to wait and see what happens with this science project.