Sunday Farm Update on Monday!

Saturday night found us celebrating a friend's 50th at Doe Doe's which is located in the middle

of nowhere. We were a bit goofy after waiting an eternity for our food...

Woke up early enough on Sunday to weed, harvest and water. HOT!





There are pumpkins all over the field! Flower Campers will have first pick of this year's"Orange Bulldog" pumps! The zinnias, sunflowers, celosia and broom corn are crazy right now...Perfect timing for FlowerCamp!


Here are more pics for today's report.








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ML

Week in Review

Home/Farm Wrap Up...

I have to keep the farm flowers picked and rows weeded in anticipation of FlowerCamp in Sept/October. The home garden has been neglected this week as my energy focuses on Burke County. If you've not signed up for FlowerCamp yet, it's time. Registration is in full swing, and a weekday session opened up.

Home

Pure neglect this week. Here is my list of things to do this week at home:

• pull grape toms from raised bed


• order seeds of lettuce, beets, chard and hollyhocks!


• check out Park Seed and Johnny's Selected Seeds online


• borrow a weed wacker for the "back 40" where Round Up didn't do the job


• pick peaches before squirrels do


• add to green bean trellis before they get out of hand

Farm

Here is what I did last week. Several email inquiries re: pumpkins. Yes, there are plenty of pumpkins, but not counting on them until they are in the truck!

• harvested buckets of zinnias, celosia, mexican sunflower


• planted 2 rows of sunflowers


• sprayed fungicide on zinnias


• fertilized & watered pumpkins/zinnias


• assessed pumps, they look beautiful!

That's it for last week, still much to do for FlowerCamp. Ordering "bib aprons" this week for everyone, and looking for decent clippers. Two years ago, Big Lots had an unbelievable deal on pink handled Fiskars clippers!

Blessings from the Garden,

ML