We harvested snow peas from the closed tunnels & greenhouse. A real delicacy!
We have mowed the lawn everywhere to give a great experience to those who come to harvest.
The small playhouse for children is ready. They are super happy!
We continue to feed & care for the little ducklings that have joined us this year. Unfortunately, we have lost one to predators prowling the chicken coop at night. We have moved the remaining ducklings and the mama to a safer home outside the chicken coop.
We continue to work on a small construction to present our products on the street. Thanks Bram!
We scratched between the carrots & beetroot & potatoes & spinach & courgettes in the open tunnels.
We buried Arian, the rooster of the Food Forest. We had noticed on Wednesday that he was calmer than usual and the next day he was already dead. We feel very small before the laws of nature.
We scratched the sides of the closed tunnels to keep them weed free.
We placed the last tiles on the right side of the greenhouse for eventual future constructions.
In the closed tunnels:
We scratched & seeded summer purslane in all the center beds of the closed tunnels.
We harvested the small carrots in closed tunnel 1 left side for a small yield (compact soil?)
We continue to lightly prune the grapevines when they grow into the path & to increase quality of grapes instead of quantity.
We flooded closed tunnel 1 to be able to plant.
We planted white celery & celeriac in the center of tunnel 1 to the sides of the tomatoes & cucumbers.
We planted paprika’s on the right side of closed tunnel 1 between the garden cress & coriander after removing the salad that had gone to seed. (see Frank Gertrude system)
We planted watermelons in the backs of tunnels 1 & 3 so that they can climb on the ground & take over (cover) where we go the least.
We planted kohlrabi, broccolini & coriander in the center of closed tunnel 2 on the sides of the tomatoes.
We planted 2 rows of peppers on the right side of tunnel 2 between the mixed annuals going to seed (mustard, rucola, salad, etc).
We planted aubergines & tomatoes on the left side of tunnel 2 after harvesting the corn salad for seed (leaving the place quite weed free & easy to shuffle).
At Hei:
We scratched & weeded the low long collapsed bed filled with potatoes.
We scraped the carrot bed since the digging up of the beds after winter woke up so many weeds that our tiny slow growing carrots didn’t stand a chance. We try again, with some infused creativity & advice from farmers around. We seeded again with onions as markers, & covering it with plastic to be taken off in a week. Good luck carrots!
We weeded & scratched between the parsnip & beetroot.
We scraped the sunflower bed since none of them came up. Favorite snacks of rats?
We planted the back third of low long bed 1 & 2 at the Hei with Oca, a Peruvian sort of potato.
We removed the remainder of the plastic cover and planted more pumpkin & corn on the big field.
We took out some more winter purslane from the short beds & spread it around the beds.
We watered all the plants we planted by hand!
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