Amberglen Farm: Fall Plantings

The weather has been just delicious: up to the 90s in the day, but cool enough at night to open the windows. The a/c has been off for a couple of weeks. Yesterday it even clouded up and rained a few drops. Back on August 23rd, I planted this selection of lettuce seeds in trays in the shadehouse.

The Drunken Woman Frizzy Headed and the Buttercrunch both came up very strongly and very early. The others are germinating, but farther behind. So we got to work and cleared a bed to put the seedlings in. The new bed is actually 2B, because 1B is dedicated to pumpkin overflow. We put in sulphur, organic fertilizer, and lots of compost. We mixed our homemade compost with airport compost. We had lots of straw thanks to Rick C. so we freshened up the paths too. Notice the broccoli in the foreground. For future reference, we started them at just the right time (early July), and transplanted them at the right time (early August), and we hope to have lots and lots of brocs.

Yesterday was cloudy, so I took advantage of that and transplanted the Drunken Woman Frizzy Headed seedlings. They are just at one true leaf, but they were busting out of their pots! That took up about half the bed, so I'll plant the Buttercrunch in the back half. We had a lot of volunteer green mustard come up, so I transplanted some of them into that bed also. Then we prepared 3B to match, so it's ready to plant also. We're still pulling lots of peppers and tomatoes out of our tomato patch.

And in case I didn't have enough tomatoes, Dean brought me a huge basket full. I spent two days making sauce.

Our neighbor Linsey brought over some ripe peaches she had gleaned. Rumor has it they were delicious.

We had a lovely full moon at the end of the month. Here it is rising through the hawk tree. It's getting dark earlier now, so we are actually seeing the moon and stars again at the farm.