Starting this week, we will be open by appointment only. Call 9373932174 a day ahead of when you want to pick. We have tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, summer squash, cucumbers, swiss chard, and strawberries. Give us a call to pick your own veggies for this week.
Strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, summer squash, cucumbers, swiss chard, and cabbage are all maturing now. Freshly picked food has the most nutrition for your body. Come out and enjoy the garden. 8am to noon unless it's raining or Sunday.
It has been heart breaking to see all the damage to the beautiful trees around the farm. It depresses me to drive home and see all the topless trunks along Ervin Rd and Holladay Road. Luckily, the garden did not have damage except for the fence. We were able to replace the seven metal posts and 100 feet of fence quickly so the deer didn't get a chance to dine on the veggies. Some of the electric repair trucks drove over my blackberries and raspberries. Should I complain. I think not. I am grateful that they were able to get repairs done so quickly. So come on out next week. We will be open 8am to noon each day.
This has been a surprise. Veggies should have been ripe sooner. Flowers should be blooming. For whatever reasons the season is slow. We are designed to provide fresh vegetables. We don't have enough produce to provide bushels of anything for canning, pickling, or freezing. Just so you know. Just for fresh eating...a week at a time. Come visit us to see what we mean.Mother Nature dictates our opening date. We have 32 varieties of tomatoes. When we have ripe ones available, we will open for picking. I am guessing that will be about the second week in July. This year we will be open every day except Sunday. Hours each day will be 8 am to noon. We will be happy to open the field by appointment as well. An email or phone call the day before you want to pick will usually work. I will blog our opening date as soon as we know when. Our design is to provide fresh food, so we will never have bushels of produce for canning or freezing. The idea is to come out and pick what you will eat for the week. We will help you learn how to recognize the ripest fruits and veggies. Come out for a fun time! Baby strawberries are small and green until they begin to ripen which is usually about 30 days after they bloom. These strawberries are special. They grow and get ripe in July and August which is just perfect for our gardens since we are only open during those times. The type of strawberry is called "day-neutral" and they don't ripen during June like all the berries most of us are used to picking. We contain these berries by planting them inside tires in April. Then we just keep them watered, weeded, and fed to get luscious berries for you to pick. In Amsterdam, water is managed so that there can be land. A series of low lying fields, canals, and locks work together to open acres of land for living and farming. Without these water management tools, the whole country would be under water. On our farm, we are seeking a solution to harvest rainwater so that we might have good water to irrigate with when drier weeks come along. Vegetables and fruits need one to two inches of water each week to mature to their full potential. In Ohio we get plenty of water from Mother Nature, but she doesn't gift it evenly. Some weeks we might get two to four, while other weeks we might get none. A rain harvesting system will allow us to keep the fruit and veggies happy. The babies are coming along. It always disturbs me to have to thin out the seedlings but it must be done. Only one seedling to a square. As it turns out we have 32 varieties of tomatoes this year. If we get a tomato tasting survey arranged during World Kitchen Garden Day, we will sure have lots of variety! I love finding out what varieties of a vegetable will grow here...on my farm, in Highland County. And then of course there is the taste test. What would be the point of growing something that tastes terrible? We always seek the best tasting variety that grows on our farm. |
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