We have Asian Beans. They flowered so early because it’s just too hot!
The Tomatoes are in.
We have two kinds of spinach growing. There are cukes planted. The lasagna garden in sown with Buttercrunch lettuce and kale. The parsley has been growing well (see it behind the lasagna bed). This bed is in the shade.
The Contender beans are in, but it may be too hot still for them to be happy!
End of Sept!! The summer cover crops are have come and almost all gone with the summer heat. We have harvested about 5 lbs of cowpeas, which now need to be shelled. Read about the community project invitation that went out to the public school…a Youth Voice Project.
Just about a year ago the big sand pine in the Tilly Garden at Blue Hen Farm got struck by lightning: see the post
The strike split the gate post and travelled underground into the main house where it took out some of the major electronics.
This past week we battened down the hatches as Hurricane Hermine came ashore just north of Citrus County in the wee hours of Sept 2nd. We lost power when a large tree branch came down on the wires just inside the main gate. The lightning also hit our Tilly Garden tree once again!
This time it blew the top of the tree off, which came down and took out the corner post of the South Woods fence behind the livestock pens. That tree really needs to come down…it’s a real lightning rod!
The top of the Lightning Rod tree in the Tilly Garden blew off and snapped off the corner post in the South Woods Pasture
All toll, the damage was minimal. We lost power and water for about 24 hours, more of an inconvenience than anything. What it adds up to is that we got all our rain for the summer (5 1/2 inches) in one shot!
The lasagna garden in sown with Buttercrunch lettuce and kale. The parsley has been growing well (see it behind the lasagna bed). This bed is in the shade.
