Boardtown Organics

It's been a while since our last blog but here's what going on at Boardtown.......

• Our Tamworths are ready to go to the processor!!! We are just waiting on the labels to get approved by the Ms Dept of Ag!
• Our young Red Star birds that we raised from chicks have started laying, so we now have a good supply of fresh eggs!
• We've disc the first field of the year to help it dry-out a little faster and hope to make our first plantings in a week or two.
• We have another batch of meat birds started and they should be available around the middle of May.

This past week's market was going very well until the thunderstorm came through!!!  We had our largest selection of crops available so far this year and sales were brisk.

This coming market, 6/20/09, we should have the following:

     Heirloom Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Little Finger Eggplant, Yellow Squash, Green Zucchini, Golden Zucchini, Pattypan Squash, Cayenne Peppers, Bell Peppers, Hot Wax Peppers and a few Jalapeno Peppers.

A storm came through last Friday that caused a lot of damage to the crops!  Several eggplant and pepper plants were broken or laying down. 

We look forward to seeing you at this weekend's market!!!!

  Well, for the first 17 days of May, it has rained 11 of 'em!!!!  Boy, it sure is wet!!!  The field crops either died or were stunted so I plan to replant as soon as it dries up.  With the weatherman is calling for rain this weekend, who knows when it will dry up!!! 

  The container vegetables are doing pretty good but they didn't like all the rain either!  The tomatoes are inbetween golfball and tennisball size.  All the peppers are blooming and even have small peppers on them.  The lettuces are growing like weeds, the squash and zucchini have small fruits on them, and the eggplants are forming blooms!  I just transplanted four varieties of cucumbers into containers and still have several varieties of peppers to transplant.  If not for the containers, we would still be scratching our heads wondering what to do!!!!  Greg

     Well, two days after the cold temps it turned warm....too warm!  On a mid-50's day - the greenhouse got up to 110 before I could vent the heat.......The heat took care of the cauliflower and broccoli.  I need to hurry up and learn how to regulate the temps or I'll be buying seedlings this year!

     The Rutger's tomatoes just started coming up along with some more broccoli an cauliflower.  No peppers, lettuce, eggplants or cabbage yet but we're having some really warm weather so things should start popping up everyday!

     Until next time........Greg

     Well, the first seeds of the year have germinated.....a few Beefsteak tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce mix, and Roma tomatoes.  The weather has been causing a lot of problems so far....very cold temps!  My small heaters can't keep up and the seeds are very slow to germinate.  Tonight's low is going to be 19 and 20 for tomorrow night.

     Today, the greenhouse had to endure 30 to 35 mile an hour gusts and it took a beating but made it through.  I'm glad I used the 1" pvc instead of 3/4! 

     Buy your fresh veggies from farmers that are Certified Naturally Grown!!!!.......Greg

     We finally started our first seeds of the year......just over 1000 seeds so far!  Here's a list of the seeds:

   Tomato - Beefsteak, Matt's Wild Cherry, and  Roma

   Peppers - Calif. Wonder, Purple Beauty, Golden Calif. Wonder, Cayenne, and Hungerian Hot Wax

     Broccoli, Cauliflower, and Eggplant       

     We still have a lot of other seeds to start but I will need to mix up some more organic potting mix.  We'll let you know how everything is progressing........Greg