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Looking around the farm the last couple weeks

7/28/2024

A quick look around the farm. I took these pictures over the last couple of weeks or so. Click images for a closer view. Most of the images have captions with additional info.

With the cooler nights we have been having the tomatoes are being quite slow to ripen. We need a string of nights over 60 degrees to speed the process. I can't wait!

We are looking forward to starting pop-ups again once we have enough ripe produce to bring. I will announce that here.

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High Tunnel, Low Tunnel & Cattle Panel Green house Highlights

7/9/2024

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It's great to keep a photo record of plant performance each year. This post shares our farm's High Tunnel, Low Tunnel & Cattle Panel Greenhouse Highlights for the last few days: Tasmanian Chocolate Tomato, Sweet Scarlet Tomato, Dark Purple Opal Basil, Lisianthus buds, and Nasturtiums. Click individual images for more info.

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Happening NOW at SowThankful Farm

7/6/2024

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This is a Czech Bush Tomato Plant. We already harvested and eaten a couple tiny tomatoes from this plant before the end of June. While it is technically supposed to be a "determinate" variety that tops out anywhere from 20 - 30 inches tall, my experience the last 2 year growing it is that it keeps producing tomatoes like this ALL summer long. The are constantly clusters of tomatoes ranging from 1.5 - 2.5+ inches in circumference. Flavor is nice and we love the constant production. I've used them sliced on sandwiches, in salads, salsa and sauces. We will be growing this variety every year.

ALSO...Czech Bush makes a fantastic container tomato.

This tomato plant is called Manitoba.

It produced our very first ripe tomato in mid June this year. That was our earliest tomato ever but I had this plant under Wall of Waters AND inside the high tunnel since the first of March.

Manitoba produces lots of small to mid size slicers. They are quite tasty and a variety I will plant early every year as it performs well even when it's quite cool.

This is Cape White Daisy. It is a new flower variety for our farm this year and I'm just thrilled with it so far. The blooms just keep getting bigger and better as the days pass. I've planted several plants in various locations around the farm and they are all doing quite well.

This is an annual daisy, but well worth planting. As the plants mature, stems can be 24+ inches long and make great cut flowers.

Not picky about soil and relatively drought tolerant once established.

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Looking around the farm the last couple weeks

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