New Season

It's bitter cold January in Central New York and the perfect time to consider the new growing season. The past summer's abundance was inspiring - potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers galore. This year's plan definitely incorporates some serious potato cultivation and marketing. A fledgling idea at the moment, we are considering selling our own home-grown potato chips. Dad's recipe is especially delicious. Moreover, a small grass-fed beef operation is being considered for a new enterprise, with some investment in fence and a few animals to start. We are working on a plan at the moment - any suggestions or advice for a new start-up?

Better late than never- some photos of our produce...

Good news

The potato plants are flowering and they should be ready soon. We had planted squash, cucumber, and zucchini seeds but only had one plant come up! We went out bought some more squash and cucumber plants and they should come in - unfortunately a little later than hoped. We heard from the local greenhouse that we weren't the only ones. Because it started out really warm in May, frosted, and warmed up again, it killed many seeds. Our potatoes made it though! and so did lots of our other usuals - tomatoes, radishes, beets, carrots, and more!

Ripe, Red Tomatoes

Stakin' Tomatoes

Here are the last of the pics, these were taken this afternoon. I usually only have time to pitch in after work. I'm finishing up marigolds and onions around the tomatoes.

Tomato plants are in the ground

I know it's been a while, but I'm finally updating. We've made so much progress in the last couple weeks, I don't even know where to begin. We did however hit a few snags. Fencing finally went up, irrigation was installed. We had an issue with the pressure tank, the psi was too low on the first one we bought. A Lowe's employee by the name of Ann was very helpful though, so we got things sorted out. The pressure tank was the most trouble, that slowed us down for a few days. We started with 25 psi then bumped it up to 52, that's worked much better. A timer is also set to water in the morning and evening. Tomato plants are now in the ground, along with some marigolds and onions.

more pics below!