Colvin Family Farm

This week we are pulling all of the carrots that successfully grew this Fall. We planted one-half of a bed in our garden (4 ft. by 100 ft.) early enough in September to make beautiful baby carrots from 2-4 inches long, but the 2 ½ more beds that we planted later in September didn’t grow enough root to overwinter (which was our original plan) so we made the decision to go ahead and clear the carrots out so that we could put a cover crop in their place. Although it is bothersome that that plan didn’t work out, it is yet another valuable lesson learned on our farm—next year we should be able to plant earlier so that we will have several beds of full sized carrots to overwinter, so that the following Spring we will have a lot of carrots starting on the first market day, rather then having to wait until the middle or last of June.

I keep thinking it will stop raining one of these days…we’ve had so much of it recently that it is turning the farm into a muddy mess. I wish that I could take a “rain check” on it and use it next Summer when we will invariably need it. The best amount for us would be 1 ½ to 2 inches each week—raining softly, and spread out over a few nights, but even though that rarely ever happens, if it isn’t too much, we usually have enough to pull the crops through.

It is a beautiful day, the sun (no it isn’t raining [whoopee!]) is up and starting to shine over the fields that are slowly turning green with our cover crop. It is going to be a beautiful day!

 
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Adam Colvin
Colvin Family Farm (CNG)
www.ColvinFamilyFarm.com

Knoxville CSA