First Beans and Huge Squash Plants

The first bean crop of the year is almost ready.  Unlike many other plants on the farm, slugs, flea beetles and aphids don’t have any interest in beans so the crop is largely unblemished.  Excited to bring them to market in a few weeks.

The row of summer squash grown in one of our true “no-till” beds that we didn’t shape this spring is almost double the size of any other bed of squash on the farm.  Maybe there is something to all of this “no-till” stuff after all...

— Robin Hackett, Farm Manager

No-Till Bed Termination and Thriving Hoop House Tomatoes

Experimenting with how to best terminate a bed of arugula without tilling it in.  We tried mowing it with a flail mower, but it came back quicker than expected.  After that we used the wheel-hoe to finish it off.  In the future mowing and then tarping could be a good combination.

Our few rows of cherry tomatoes in the hoop house are thriving.  They’re almost twice as tall as their colleagues outside, despite having been seeded and transplanted a month later.  It would undoubtedly be helpful to have additional high tunnels in the future.

— Robin Hackett, Farm Manager