2025 gardens

[CloverKnollFarms]

Do you sell off produce, or can?

We're drowning in beans with just 16 or so plants, and just planted some more where we pulled up the potatoes.

We sell produce and can. Biggest crops are sweet corn, beans and pumpkins.

Pumpkins are the largest cash crop we have.

It's a small operation right now. About 2000 ears of sweet corn. Maybe 200lbs of beans and 600 pumpkins

 

[Engineer42]

Interesting.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Some progress

Some corn is developing tassels.

Some beans are ready to pick.

Starting foliar feeding of the pumpkins starts today.

Buckwheat is covered in honey bees

 

[MossRoad]

Nice. We've got few to no flowers on our tomatoes or peppers. But fruits are doing great. So did the flowers. Strange year up here.

 

[JJT]

My tomatoes in raised beds are looking good, 4' high and lots of flowers. The tomatoes in the ground are looking poorly, less than 2' high and no blossoms yet.

We've had some lettuce, peas, onions and radishes so far. Cukes and tomatoes are weeks away.

 

[Engineer42]

Picked first string beans Friday, got a 1/4 of a 5 gal bucket full. Tassels have jumped on 1/4 of the sweet corn. Tomatoes look good, picked the first two over the weekend. Got two squash and one zucchini thurs. weird year for them. We are normally covered up by now. Pickles and limas coming. Hopeful for eggplant. Romaine and spinach are done.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

First beans. These were early, the bushes have a ton of small beans and blossoms.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

I had just hoed and tilled to break up the crust on the garden yesterday, Bd last night got about .7" of rain over about 7 hours. What could be more perfect.

The only downside I've seen to my 72" tiller is that it pulverizes the soil to the point that after a decent rain, those tiny particles coalesce into a solid crust. The plants don't grow well in that. Even a couple days after breaking it up, you can see a visible difference between areas that I have and have not tilled.

The small tiller leaves larger chunks of soil, that leave lots of cracks and crevices for water and oxygen to penetrate.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

The only downside I've seen to my 72" tiller is that it pulverizes the soil to the point that after a decent rain, those tiny particles coalesce into a solid crust. The plants don't grow well in that. Even a couple days after breaking it up, you can see a visible difference between areas that I have and have not tilled.

It's called "over tilling" in the first place, you've ruined your soil structure.

I said it on this forum MANY times, improper use of a tiller ruins the soil structure and it's NOT the tillers fault!

SR

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

The only downside I've seen to my 72" tiller is that it pulverizes the soil to the point that after a decent rain, those tiny particles coalesce into a solid crust. The plants don't grow well in that. Even a couple days after breaking it up, you can see a visible difference between areas that I have and have not tilled.

It's called "over tilling" in the first place, you've ruined your soil structure.

I said it on this forum MANY times, improper use of a tiller ruins the soil structure and it's NOT the tillers fault!

SR

Ok