OK- so farming isn’t really conducive to blogging…it’s a lot of daily work and not a lot of free time. Most time is spent keeping up with chores like weeding, cleaning, mowing and watching for pests and diseases. We have gone through an entire season and I have not had a chance to blog about it at all!
So, to sum up… we farmed a new plot this year and it was wonderful! We invested in a tractor, a Farmall C and a drip irrigation system. Turns out, we didn’t need the irrigation this year because we were hit with 400% more rain than was normal for our area- CRAZY! That rain caused us to have exponentially more problems with bugs- grasshoppers, hornworms, beetles of all sorts and with mildew and blight.
We planted hundreds more plants this year and had great luck with potatoes. The leafy greens did well early on and the carrots struggled a bit but the last crop came out pretty good. Squash was abundant as were the hot peppers again. I really wish the tomatoes had survived the rains better, we lost a ton of fruit to rot, grasshoppers and worms.
We are now in the planning stages for 2012 and are really getting a handle on higher production, better crop rotation and succession planning. We are going to have an awesome year, I just know it.
