All in a day's Work!
Today we planted the first of the tomato babies. What does that entail?
- Creating rows/furrows (6 rows, each 60 feet long)
- Setting up the irrigation system
- Spreading 4 bags of powdered oyster shells carefully over the rows
- Turning the dirt over the irrigation tape and oyster shell
Going to the nursery (Harmony Farm) to buy more stuff for the irrigation- Putting green plastic over the tops of the rows
- Fixing us/the workers lunch
- Cutting through the plastic to make holes for the tomatoes
- Adding mushroom mulch to the holes
- Planting the tomatoes, all the while making a very detailed list of exactly
what was planted where. WHY? We did “library rows” at the Ruff Patch (the name of the farm where we are planting) with 2 plants of each variety of tomato and needed to keep track what was where. - Planted the tomatoes – 192!!!
- Added more mushroom mulch
What are we doing now, you might ask? I am writing the "load/packing list" for an event tomorrow at Stryker Sonoma Vineyard. Farmer Jeff is supposed to be writing recipes for the cookbook. I think he is wandering around the internet while I write my blog! We are both playing hooky!
All work and no play makes Jack a very dull boy. Right?
(Who remembers what movie that was in? It featured someone named Jack. Coincidence? We think not!)
I am leaving with you a hint to the question above. A hatchet actually had a part in that movie.
The guys found this hatchet head while cultivating the soil. Will someone please explain to me how in the world folks believed that burning glass and metal with their trash would get rid of it?
Labels: Harmony Farm, hatchet, Heirloom Tomatoes, mushroom mulch, Planting tomatoes, Ruff Patch, Stryker Sonoma, t-tape irrigation
posted by Chicken Mama at 9:20 PM
4 Comments:
The Fisher King.
:-)
Lydia, oh Lydia, Have you met Lydia? Lydia that Tattooed Lady...
Nope...not the Fisher King, although that is one of my favorite movies. For a sweet rendition of Lydia...see the Philadelphia Story with Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.
The planting looks as if it all went well, even with the hatchet head.
Good luck on all the tomato plants.
All 192 of them.
We expect frost here tonight. yes, way down in the middle of Georgia, but hopefully next week we will be ready for a major planting too.
Oooh, oooh, oooh...I know, I know... your quote is from "The Shining" with Jack Nicholson. :-)
I featured the external shot of the hotel used (Timberline Lodge) in that movie on one of my blog posts a while back!
Wow - I love all the info you give in your post. Why the oyster shell and why mushroom compost? Why not chicken??!!! How do you cut the holes in the plastic weed barrier? What a ton of work...but it all looks beautiful. You're going to laugh when you see my eensy garden. :) (I'm calling it my "test" garden, since this is my first year and it give me a really good excuse to plant just a little bit of hopefully a lot of things.
Here's to playing hooky!!!
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