Could it possibly rain anymore?

Well the last few weeks have been good and also really depressing. All it does is rain! This summer has been rough, it's not August 8th and i still have very little ready. Even the carrots are dragging their asses. The lack of sun has really put a damper on pepper production and the cold nights aren't helping. Being a farmer is sometimes really really depressing.

Enough of my misery and whining, here's a picture update!

Unfortunately we won't have peppers at Saturday's market, Soon though. 

Pepper plants and my dog's butt. 

This is the same basil I've been growing since March. 

We harvested the garlic! Sadly we're using it all as seed for next year. 

Little baby scallop squash.

Red Romaine. This will be at market on Saturday. 

Boston white! I love this lettuce. We made Asian lettuce wraps the other day with it and it was amazing. 

The lemon cucumbers! We will have some at market on Saturday. 

The carrot stocks are huge but the carrots are still pretty tiny. 

My onions!! Yes these are the ones i started from seed. There will be some at market on Saturday. 

Corn! The spears are coming out, the roots on most of them look really good. If the corn tastes good next year i will be growing a lot of it. 

So pretty!

More onions and arugula.

The beans are coming along, not there yet. A few more weeks. 

Cilantro!

Borage! A really pretty edible flower. 

Tomatoes.

Tomatillo's. 

The squash row. 

This watermelon isn't doing so shit hot, but it does have a fair amount of little melons on it. 

My favorite thing in the world is Choke cherry jelly and i haven't really had that much of it since my grandma passed away many years ago. Today i was driving around the property checking out the wild raspberries to see if would can harvest a fair amount to bring to market and i stumbled on not one but 5 big ass choke cherry trees that i have apparently never noticed in the last 23 years that my family has lived on the property. Most of them were ready to be harvested, the birds didn't get them yet. I honestly thought it was a lie, so my mom offered to eat one just in case they weren't choke cherries. Luckily i was right and they weren't weird poisonous berries. So we spent the afternoon harvesting choke cherries. I'm so pumped to make jelly!

We have been diligently working on the expansion for next year. We hauled probably 3 tandem loads of manure over the weekend. I have a guy coming to mulch and till all the trees and weeds for me. 

Things are going pretty well, now all we need is some nice warm sunny days!