tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-286210152024-03-14T07:48:12.684-07:00Port Hudson Organics CSAThais and Will Perkins:
A Louisiana gardening adventure.basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.comBlogger279125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-30586677270460464452016-12-09T16:06:00.003-08:002016-12-09T16:08:58.824-08:00Coldest NightFirst freeze...actually last night but this night will be colder. Vegetable-gathering over here.....most of this would not freeze in any case (or, like lettuce, freeze and then magically UN-freeze! always amazes me) but we are into the late fall early harvest.<br />
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Romain is safe from a freeze, particularly a light one - but this is beautiful. We had bad germination, so there aren't many...happy to see this.<br />
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This is fun....we've had these banana trees and all of us who live here already know that, you may get this far, but they probably won't ripen. No, you will never, ever have bananas, even though you can always hope!<br />
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Big beautiful GREENS for tomorrow - we've been selling them on the weekends...Will is getting a head-start, as is Pretty Boy and the 'cat-rock'<br />
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house-spinach (not for selling - because Spinach); and tarragon which will all freeze but come back in the spring.......<br />
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and then we have the over-abundance of lemons....! and more lemons!<br />
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oh! and dill! lots of beautiful dill....a wonderful fall herb that will not kick the bucket in a freeze....<br />
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....we didn't really expect this abundance this fall - it's been a hard couple of farming years. The new greenhouse will go a long way towards maintaining part of the garden no matter the weather. For now, we're pretty content...<br />
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<br />basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-77943073331153120822016-12-01T20:00:00.003-08:002016-12-04T13:01:59.664-08:00Fall Veggies!!<br /><br />To local food enthusiasts and greens lovers,<br /><br />We are sending this notice out to ex-CSA members and new friends to let you know that Port Hudson Organics is back into limited operation with an abundance leafy green vegetables and the promise of a wide variety of everyone’s favorite winter vegetables in the coming weeks. For those of you who haven’t been out in a while or who haven’t checked our blog and Facebook posts, please note our latest addition – a 2,100 square foot greenhouse that will accommodate our tractor-mounted tiller. We have inaugurated this new asset by planting it chock-a-block with beets, lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and herbs – all on drip irrigation and all picture perfect.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDKYqR-XzGfGnvlfzKNRVAOCI-OWMiBUr_JmvWSIjjudSNLEKNK1S7MEs-zOWe6vUmR23fdoOJxWR2TR0r9DUrtUvfVDzrAoD4_nP-Oj721pysJWhZX_qR8ev_BibhsE6wQfS5BA/s1600/002.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDKYqR-XzGfGnvlfzKNRVAOCI-OWMiBUr_JmvWSIjjudSNLEKNK1S7MEs-zOWe6vUmR23fdoOJxWR2TR0r9DUrtUvfVDzrAoD4_nP-Oj721pysJWhZX_qR8ev_BibhsE6wQfS5BA/s320/002.JPG" /></a><br /><br />In the garden, we also have a wide assortment of greens, including mustard, collards, and turnip types (and they are digging the wet and cool weather). <br />We encourage you to come out this Saturday if you have a taste for succulent, unadulterated produce, picked to order. This Saturday we are offering the following:<br /><br />Mustard greens (a very mild, smooth-leaved Oriental variety) <br />Collard greens <br />Turnip greens <br />Kale <br />Beets (red and yellow) – currently in the small-bulb stage with beautiful greens<br /> <br />We also have an abundance of our exceptional farm honey (great for Christmas gifts).<br /><br />We would appreciate an email reply if you plan to come so we can anticipate some of the picking. It is not required, so feel free to just show up – we will manage. We also understand that the weather is a little iffy, but that will not dampen our spirits and the greenhouse is covered, so come out anyway.<br /><br />We will be sending periodic updates on the status of other vegetables which will be maturing in the coming weeks. The current plan is to be open each Saturday 8AM-4PM through Christmas. If you are unsure, or would like to make other arrangements, please feel free to email or call us at the following and we will accommodate where possible.<br /><br />Please feel free to forward this to friends and family!<br /><br />Email: <a href="mailto:drthais@cox.net">drthais@cox.net</a><br />Phone: (225) 658-8526 (please leave message if there is no answer as we are likely outside<br />We hope to see some of you on a regular basis and all of you at least once.<br />
<br />Best regards<br />
<br />Will and Thais Perkins<br />Port Hudson Organics<br />1340 E Plains Port Hudson, Zachary, Labasic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-19306145548599000402016-11-05T15:16:00.002-07:002016-11-05T15:31:18.144-07:00Satsuma Juice and Lemons Lemons Lemons!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After having frozen almost to the ground a few years ago, the Meyer Lemons and satsumas are having a slam-dunk year. The rains of the flood might have helped...and the dry spell we're having certainly does help in sweetening and preventing rot....altogether a good harvest! I keep picking and juicing satsumas....in ice trays to pop out into bags for the freezer...I was having great fun with this....and Will was thinking it was kind of a waste, I mean...'what are we going to do with that?'...and after making a couple of Satsuma reduction sauces while cooking has, of course, changed his mind. <br />
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But he did convince me to fill a constantly-refreshed pitcher of juice for the fridge. Better than anything you can buy in the orange-juice category for sure.<br />
This is just another of those things that are exciting at first but can become tedious if you don't push through. So I'm pushing....<br />
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PS: Satsuma ice cubes in your adult beverage isn't a shabby thing either....<br />
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Will has been working so hard in (and around) the garden...and it is heartwarming to see that, after a long stretch of very bad gardening weather (about a year and a half) that finally, FINALLY....the garden gods are smiling. Too bad I'm not a turnip fan, because the germination is so good and there will be so many turnips. Also cabbages!<br />
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AND, after several years of going without, we have put in strawberries...thank you Tri-Parish Co-op for having them to put aside for us, and thank you Ian for coming pout last week to help put down the plastic and put them in....<br />
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behind the strawberries we have very lovely Asian greens (very mild, very elegant).<br />
And then there's the on-going greenhouse experiment..<br />
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I'm a big, big fan of this....gardening in a more controlled space. These pictures don't do it justice - when the plants get big (broccoli, cauliflower and the like) all these plants will be touching each other. I predict a thing of beauty.<br />
And now for the randomness.....kershaws on the compost pile, a spider on the tractor - sweet potatoes in the middle of the field....<br />
...and random squash by the house - volunteering awesomness...and squash!<br />
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<br />basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-28531490913924181402016-10-18T09:25:00.001-07:002016-10-18T09:25:27.126-07:00SUCH a Long Time Now.....but we're emerging from our quiet....maybe2015 was the very worst farming year in this state in my memory. It rained from January to July. We raised the plants in flats - we had already decided to perhaps not to do a CSA last year - we were frankly tired and wanted to re-gear. But Will planted all the flats anyway - and I planted a ridiculous amount of herbs as well. And it would.not.stop.raining. We never got the tractor into the field, or the tiller into the herb beds. Sadly - so sadly- we wound up throwing out all of the plants we started/ There was nothing we could do.<br />
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Fast forward to 2016. We still just didn't have it in us to crank up the CSA> We needed a rest. Did that keep us from planting? Why, no! Of course not! It wasn't an easy year - but not as bad as last. We put up corn, we put up tomatoes....I stared at a 70ft row of beautiful Genovese basil that there wasn't anything to do with, really. Dry a bunch - use a bunch - give some away. Most went to waste, if you can call it that.<br />
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remember those hoop houses? The Michelle Obama inspired program through which one can acquire greenhouses and be paid back buy the government? and we have two. And they are long and have been productive off and on - but are difficult in their way. <br />
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Will said..." We could get one more. A big one." I said sure! So we did this:<br />
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And then we got a couple of chairs and glasses of wine and we sat in there....and then we said..."Now what?" And then we said...."I Don't Know!"<br />
And then I said...."<em>Dinner in the Greenhouse!"</em><br />
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Just imagine...rows of veggies down each side. Long tables down the middle. White tablecloths. Dinner made from the produce growing right behind your chair!<br />
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It is now planted for fall; broccoli - cauliflower, beets, brussel sprouts. Greens are planted elsewhere because you have to have greens.<br />
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So Will didn't leave quite enough room in the middle and part of me thinks he did this so I didn't get too antsy about this idea until spring, but mostly this is just the first go-round of the new project.<br />
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Well. How much rain can a garden take? Or, rather, how much rain until the garden just cannot,<br />
simply cannot be planted? The answer is all the rain we have had since January. We managed to get a couple of rows of tomatoes and peppers on rows pulled up high, and the potatoes got planted And (amazingly) did not rot...the garlic was put in in November of course, so we're good there. One greenhouse was a planted in flowers for an April wedding and the other in tomatoes...sounds like a lot doesn't it? Ha. No. Flats of squash, pots of eggplants, all kinds of herbs....the corn, the beans...none of it made it in because it rained and rained and rained....<br />
So we refunded all of the CSA money, and apologized for the sadness.<br />
And of course it hasn't rained now in at least a week. Nice joke, nature.<br />
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I'll post pictures as soon as I move from iPad to computer, being as this blog site just does not access photos from this device...but that's an update...basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-88376296784417515392014-02-16T16:27:00.002-08:002014-02-16T16:27:26.627-08:003 Minutes of BirdsFebruary and finally a deliciously warm day....and for those of you snowed in...this is your yard in the near future...<br />
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basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-13093600757342508742014-01-28T20:05:00.000-08:002014-01-28T20:05:00.574-08:00Adjust....Adapt!Wanting to begin this post with the positives, I have to say that<u> our CSA members really shined through perhaps our most difficult season last year</u>. <br />
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Every year presents different challenges and opportunities and I considered last year to be a learning event. Among lessons learned; <br />
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<li>high tunnel greenhouses, which in this environment offer great protection from heavy rains, can, and <u>do</u> flood and will smother plants (solution - raised beds of well-draining growing media); </li>
<li>a tractor-mounted tiller, while a miracle implement, must be used sparingly during exceedingly wet springs lest it overly compact the soil;</li>
<li> corn can be planted in flats and transplanted into the mud when all else fails, but,<em> don't ever underestimate the raccoons</em> (solution here was to buy electric netting, as the deer fence just won't keep them out);</li>
<li> and, I believe that winter oats can actually<em> rob</em> the soil of nitrogen early in the season as the woody stems break down. </li>
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We have our setbacks, make adjustments, and move on. <strong>Adjust...adapt.</strong><br />
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This is not to say that last year was a failure, but after such an awesome garden in years prior, we had very high expectations for 2013. For one thing, we completed installation of a drip irrigation system which, as it turns out, is not much use when it rains 2 inches every weekend for a month and a half (we never even turned it on).<br />
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<u>This year I am taking the unusually cold winter as an omen for a great spring.</u> </div>
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Last year was particularly mild, setting up for an unusually wet spring. This year's cold weather pattern, I believe, will yield to the type of spring we are accustomed to, and the hard freezes will knock back pests and weeds that are not usually perennial, but manage to live through our recent mild winters. The pear and fig trees will appreciate the dormancy. <br />
We are making a few changes this year - increasing the herb beds, changing our mulching methods, moving crops, and working hard to make the high tunnels produce the way they were expected to. <strong>This brings me to the $1 tomato seeds</strong>, and the trailer load of crushed pine bark parked in the driveway. One of the high tunnels is being geared to by-the-book (or Greenhouse Tomato Culture) tomato production. We will be building raised beds and utilizing high-quality greenhouse tomato stock and drip irrigation to attempt to duplicate the kind of results that can be achieved in this type of growing environment. It will mean a little more trouble and some additional equipment and new techniques. We will utilize integrated pest management and do this with no chemical pesticides. I consider tomatoes to be the bedrock of a successful garden. Last year's late, wet, spring caused damage to the tomatoes and this year I am determined to produce an abundance.<br />
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So as we finish ordering our seeds, start flats of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and early season vegetables and herbs, send out emails to our past and new CSA members, we renew our enthusiasm, raise our hopes, and make adjustments, fully expecting this season to be the best ever. <br />
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C'mon spring!<br />
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basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-10214640791894903092014-01-28T17:43:00.003-08:002014-01-28T17:43:22.139-08:00Getting Excited About Spring...EVEN as the sleet piles up outside, and we are destined to spend one more day housebound. Will wants to post about the upcoming season and hopefully will do so tonight; in the meantime, we've been talking about seed ordering....(ask Will about his $1 a seed tomato order -yikes) and we have made some changes out near the garden to put in more herb beds this year. All of this makes me think about Tulsi...I grew all 4 kinds of Tulsi for tea last year and had a special bed dedicated to it. But I made the grand mistake of not planning well, and running out of room before the Kapoor was ready...and it had to be relegated to the back of an herb row by the greenhouses. so sad. In a way, I feel like I am supposed to like them all equally -I have no idea why. But in fact, I love the Kapoor so very much. They all have their special traits, but the Kapoor (the only one that is African in origin) has the sweetest, most amazing smell and taste. There will be much, much tulsi basil in our future (and that includes all of the CSA members). I'll go about my business on this very cold night -=and dream of warm days and herb beds.....<br />
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Kapoor (wish you could smell this....)</div>
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basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-13969414404417370152013-10-27T14:30:00.001-07:002013-10-27T14:35:45.079-07:00ok. I dropped the ball, so to speak. An entire season comes and goes and almost nothing on this blog...and the season was over on the 4th of July....I can plead 'too busy' and that would be correct, but still, people like to know whats up with the garden, so really that's no excuse. Now it is late October. Will has manhandled the garden and managed to put in fall veggies - some will make it to the first frost and some will not, but its the effort that counts....as always.<br />
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The green and yellow beans are blooming, but not setting quickly. It's been hot-cold hot-cold so maybe they are confused. We hope to have beans. That, and the loofas (no chance but hey...)and the cucumbers (making a mighty good try and we've had a few) and the tomatoes (in the greenhouse so maybe we'll get some) are our effort to steal a little summer.<br />
The fall vegetables, on the other, hand, should be fine. Here are our round bales - not what we wanted, but they'll have to do, because nobody makes square bales anymore(!)<br />
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..the rest of them are in the barn, but Will has been rolling some of them out...and they make a very fine mat for protection...<br />
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and all along the front of this herb bed, teeny-tiny cauliflowers and broccoli. We never really worry about what on earth we'll do with this much broccoli and cauliflower.<br />
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The herb beds, along with all of the rest of the 2013 garden, were hard to handle and never produced the way we wished they would. But fall came, and little volunteers began to poke their heads up and the herb beds turned into this fabulous array of craziness - very healthy craziness. We're enjoying it while we can -if we were home every day and had all the time in the world, there would be pesto and basil drying and all sorts of things...hope the frost holds off for a while longer...<br />
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<br />basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-82479775789690483852013-06-01T11:08:00.001-07:002013-06-01T11:11:57.172-07:00First Weekand we managed to pull it out...three weeks later than usual, but everyone was happy...<br />
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Chinese Cabbage, lots of lettuce, squash, red potatoes and herbs...not bad for a beginning<br />
and, as usual, we had lots of help...<br />
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even Liam (who wants to be a 'gar-di-ner' but loves to play golf also) brought his watering can..last week, he forgot to bring it and was sad<br />
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here's to having survived a challenging planting season...<br />
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now we can have a nap. On this, our 39th anniversary...<br />
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<br />basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-21014657490100522522013-05-25T21:28:00.001-07:002013-05-25T21:28:48.292-07:00This season...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've decided that avoidance is not a good tactic...I haven't been here since April, and there's a reason for that. First, before i go any further, let me say this: we have, bar none, <b> </b><br />
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The weather, all spring, has been difficult. And I'm being polite here. Torrential rains, evenly spaced, have meant planting and re-planting. The ground has been saturated, the soil packed down. Veggies do not like this...I heard Will saying this morning to someone...'plants cannot grow in mud' and that is the truth. But that is what we have been battling since March. Case in point:</div>
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This looks like a perfectly respectable corn patch. yes. Tasseling, setting ears, all the right stuff. However, if you were standing in front of it, you'd be laughing (to keep from crying). because the corn is probably 5 ft. tall. or short.Or whatever you want to call it. It's doin' it's thing, but it's tiny. For corn.And this has been the season so far, in a nutshell. Things are stunted. The cucumbers were set out maybe 5 weeks ago. maybe 6, i cannot remember. and there they sat. And did not grow. Because it rained and rained. Yes, they have now 'busted a move'. as we like to say, as has the squash, which behaved the same way for weeks.<br />
I like to porch-sit in the evening and try to count our blessings in the garden. Let's see; The garlic will be good. the squash is finally 'making'. The field tomatoes are promising (but the hothouse tomatoes are trying so hard as the greenhouse gets flooded over and over). After replanting then finally plowing under the red beans, the field peas (replacement beans) look pretty good. We will have awesome flowers at some point.<br />
But it's just been hard. That's all there is to it. And our members come out every week and they work and smile...we love them.<br />
We have yet to start our CSA distribution for this season. That is amazing in itself. But we will begin next weekend, on the 1st, on our 39th wedding anniversary. We are DETERMINED to make a good season out of this, a year in which nature is NOT cooperating. But that is farming, right?<br />
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Well. Everybody went home today with lots of squash and rosemary. I'll be glad to get this show on the road next weekend. And I am also glad I have a place to go and say what I have to say (that would be right here). Not all seasons will result in the 'Disneyland Effect' we have perhaps become to used to these past years. But there will be plenty of good food. Will explains that the curve of the season will just be different his time around. From the looks of things, the beginning has been slow, and the production will all happen in a cluster in the middle somewhere, about the end of June,. beginning of July. The shape of the garden will just be different this time around. </div>
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<br />basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-84242133400633837592013-04-14T18:55:00.000-07:002013-04-14T18:55:30.872-07:00When Pigs FlySo it's January and February and you look out at the garden and the winter wheat cover crop is really tall (with a bunch of daikon radish flowers sticking out of the top because the radish seed got mixed in somehow). And you think....When Pigs Fly...that's when this is turning into a garden yet again. So my sister had gotten me this flying pig on a stick for Christmas, and although she seemed kind of embarrassed, I was tickled...because here we get that feeling all the time. The task is monumental - it seems not possible to turn a field into a garden wonderland. But you just do one thing at a time. Cut down the cover crop, plow up the dirt, plant your seedlings into flats...and on and on.<br />
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And then the CSA members start to come over to help...and three or four weekends later (with Will out there till dark after work all week too, mind you)...yeah...you can see it.<br />
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You can remember it. Watch out because it will sneak up on you - it does happen fast once the plants are all in. Well, right in the middle of this, my computer decided to quit 'recognizing' my device that reads my pictures....so more later.<br />
<br />basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-4903018746574913002013-03-24T18:22:00.000-07:002013-03-24T18:22:01.799-07:00Day 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...Getting ready for the Slow Food Tour tomorrow....pulling up winter veggies from the herb beds...washing and packing for people to have some goodness to bring home. In the back, CSA members constructing the first cucumber fence - because, as we know, veggies don't wait - and the cucumbers are in the greenhouse in the background...anxious to be put into the ground.<br />
You know, it is amazing what 12 people can do in a couple of hours! And we always are pleased to meet this year's new members - today, a couple of awesome families....a man and his daughters and grandsons - what a hard working crew! and Nhu and son and daughters - older sister watches younger sister and they are so sweet!<br />
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Today, Dinner in the Field after the Slow Food Tour. My goodness but we are very tired(!) The day was cool but there was sun...met lots of really nice folks many of whom want to be CSA members but, alas, we only have a couple of spots left...closed the gate at 1:00 p.m....then there was a lot of wind. Our tent went crawling and spiraling and punched holes in one of the greenhouses. no! but at least the tent wasn't very damaged. Then we went to Oakland Plantation for the dinner...good food - but cold cold night! Home and warm now.<br />
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<br />basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-44286451603720499932012-12-01T15:24:00.000-08:002012-12-01T15:24:29.018-08:00from the fall garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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first cauliflower...I think it weighs about 8 lbs...<br />
ok. now what goes with frog legs and cauliflower?<br />
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A few comments on our farm-scale composting effort; I have
been building compost piles for as long as we have had gardens…that is…decades,
and they have varied from small backyard piles to fenced bins consisting of a few
pickup loads of leaves, hay, debris and horse manure; all with varying degrees
of success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Probably my best composting
effort was during a period of my life when I had the time to do a lot of
fishing and composted a lot of fish waste…boy that stuff heats up fast.</div>
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On the farm in Zachary, not so much however…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to lack of raw materials and time (plus
an increasing disincentive to hand shovel manure into the pickup truck like I
used to), when I have the materials I typically practice “sheet composting”, which
is simply spreading materials in the field and eventually plowing them in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To build soil fertility, I mostly rely on
green manure cover crops and such items as processed chicken manure and crab
meal, plus a lot of mulching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It works,
and I will continue these practices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What has changed is that we now have these two high tunnel greenhouses
in our field, and green crops cannot be feasibly grown and plowed in under the
tunnels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, organic matter does not
readily decompose when not exposed to the elements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, pre-digested organic matter must
be brought in, and we need a lot of it (area under the tunnels is approximately
2,700 square feet).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just a 2-inch layer
of compost in the tunnels would require 16 yards of compost, about an
18-wheeler load, and that’s “finished” compost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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What you see in the pictures is my first attempt at large
scale composting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started with a large
pile of garden debris, including all of the bean plants, half of the corn crop
stalks, and all of the other vegetable matter left over from processing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Composted, this would have given me a couple
of square yards of material (a yard is a pile that is 3 foot square and 3 foot
tall).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, I was having trouble locating enough
horse or cow manure to build a big pile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My solution was to purchase a dump truck load of corn gluten from a
supplier in Baton Rouge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Corn gluten is
a by-product of corn starch manufacturing and is used widely as animal
feed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is about 9% nitrogen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still needed more dry material, and was
fortunate enough to have a 650-acre plot across the road, from which about 2500
round bales of hay is cut each year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was able to get 11 round bales of spoiled hay at no charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the equivalent of about 250 square
bales, about what we have cut from our 2.5 acre field (ours is used for
mulch).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The garden debris, gluten, and
hay is layered and wetted down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I added
about 300 gallons of fish emulsion to really get things going, as you can
see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My fear is that it is getting
perhaps too hot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a truckload of
sawdust coming that I plan to incorporate when I turn the pile, which should
slow things down a little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overall,
though, I could not be more pleased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Other than a mushroom farm I went to a long time ago, this is the most
composting I have seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(BTW, the effort
took me about 12 hours so far and could not have been done without the front
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I;'m not the scientist in this crowd, so no comment. But a picture and a film.<br />
All I know is 11 round bales of hay, all of last season's garden refuse, and a load of corn by-product.<br />
I promised to get the tripod and make a suitable film in the morning. But this is awesome.<br />
It got so hot so fast, it has been steaming visually for days and days.<br />
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...I wanted to get a picture of the tarragon blooming....so I went out and got wet shoes in the early morning grass...here is a snapshot of fall happenings...some of it doesn't look like much, but to finally have the energy and cooperative weather at the same time...and to get started on fall projects - all good.</div>
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teeny tiny fall lettuce...Will spread the last of the hay and got down there with the baby plants...a long long row, but no point in taking a picture of it...the plants are so small all you would see is a hay row...and then it rained that night - just enough to make them happy. </div>
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here is the ongoing retrieval of the herb beds...which will constitute our little fall garden. Fall is a dicey time for gardens here...seems like you always get a really good crop of one thing, and less success with other things - but you never know how it's going to pan out; unlike the spring, where you can pretty much count on a big beautiful garden. For this and other reasons, we keep it small this time of year.<br />
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Ah - the tarragon. I had a bucket of roots given to me by a friend, and have had tarragon for years. But this year, I dug it up and divided it and planted it into a new herb bed Will made for me...and it exploded! The reason for the bed in the first place was for a new round of rosemary...which has a life span of only about 4 years or so and indeed there is rosemary behind all of this. But this moment belongs to the tarragon. It will freeze back for the winter.<br />
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This is a very big deal. A water source next to the garden. yea~! one of many faucets, but i cannot tell you how happy this makes me...do you realize Will watered the lettuce without having to drag a hose across the yard? oh yes.<br />
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my little crazy fall flowers. I did start the zinnias, but the cosmos of course was voluntary.<br />
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and here we have Pretty Boy watching as Mousey Tongue digs aroud for the catnip that I cut back..I have more catnip and really should put it out, because for this cat it is a staple.<br />
Finally, a shaky yet still lovely little film of the pond in the morning, I'll do better next time...<br />
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basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-82735586017088280382012-09-28T08:51:00.003-07:002012-09-28T08:53:09.356-07:00Fall Farm Project...Irrigation!Not an exciting thing, you would think; trenches all over the place, from the front gate - to the bees - down the driveway - to the new greenhouse site - to the garden. But I must tell you, this is a long-awaited happy thing. It means Will can lay drip irrigation tape down every row in the garden next year. And we can just turn a valve and water whatever needs it...no more dragging hoses from the house, first of all! No more watering seedlings one by one. And no more going out to move the sprinkler every hour, sometimes through the night. Although we invested in new tripod sprinkler this year, the old one was actually better, but you had to put two bricks on the bottom to hold it in place, and when you needed to move it, you had to slog through what was now mud, and pick up the bricks and move them, then pull the sprinkle down...then get the bricks - you get the picture. And a terrible job it was when you had to go out every hour in the scorching heat. It's a big project, but here are some pictures of where we are at the moment. Of course the trencher we had borrowed just would not start, and the one<br />
Will rented conked out 2/3s of the way through the job AND it's going to pour down rain this weekend. But we'll get on the other side of this, like we do with everything else. And next season will be easier. Well, the watering part anyway!<br />
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<br />basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-4868061056977020242012-09-11T10:57:00.001-07:002012-09-11T10:57:01.687-07:00It must be fall..Satsumas, sweet potatoes and pecans.basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-48185100277301078882012-09-03T08:06:00.001-07:002012-09-03T08:06:21.761-07:00Good Riddance Isaac<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lots of scary wind lots of rain...got lucky this time...friends without power but only for a few days. It just wasn't our turn. But a lot of people got hit by unexpected flooding and many lost everything. Another year, another hurricane - no two are alike. Yard-trash everywhere but at least the beehives didn't tip over.<br />
<br />basic biographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718756914402216078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621015.post-49290849993132304462012-08-11T08:51:00.000-07:002012-08-11T08:51:05.923-07:00It's METEOR SHOWER TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!every year...August 10-12. It's been many years since the <b>Perseids</b> were on a Saturday night, when everybody can go ahead and lose some sleep over this...we'll be out there as usual - boiled peanuts and wine at hand. We've watched these showers for more than 30 years Don't miss it !<br />
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