A Different Kind of Farm

Went up to the Wildhorse Wind Farm for a benefit funtion of Bridges "Roots of Hope".
They have a great visitor facility to tell you all about there some 200 turbines. These things are huge. One blade is over 100 ft long. They do make a wooshing sound as they rotate. Looking at the future here.

Here we have some dark green heirloom zucchini starts in the back and up front we have Emerald Oak Leaf, Salad Bowl, Simpson Elite Hybrid, Red Sails looseleaf lettuce, Ermosa butterhead lettuce. The is some chard sown in there to.
I then will transplant each lettuce plant in rows 6 inches between plants. Good soil, lotsa water and keep the deer and rabbits away. Should get large heads with any luck. Darn wasco we wabbit any who.

We had a nice turnout on this somewhat gloomy day, with a steady flow of folk most of the time. Slowed down around lunchtime, as usual.
I think mother nature smiles on our little market, cause it never really seems to rain until after we close up. People are chompin' at the bit to get the local produce
we provide, but it is still a bit early. Everyone seems is putting in a garden, which is great for us plant growers....There is nothin' better than homegrown.

Tomato starts

My plants are looking really nice this year as I move them outside every morning so the they can get used to the weather.
They'll stay in these 4 in. pots for another week or two. ...Michael

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Workin' hard to get this plant catalog together for Saturdays opening day sale.
Will have over 4o different kinds of tomato plants to offer. Of which 95% are heirlooms or heritage varieties. Lets see if I can post that list here. I will try to give each type a description when time allows.

Michael's Garden Tomato Plant List 2009

1. Amish Paste

2. Anna Banana Russian

3. Aunt Ruby's German Green

4. Be My Baby Gene Pool Cherry -cherry

5. Black Cherry -cherry

6. Black from Tula

7. Black Krim

8. Black Prince

9. Brandywine

10. Bush Beefsteak -determinate

11. Cherokee Purple

12. Chocolate Naneum

13. Copia

14. Cuban Yellow Grape -cherry

15. Early Girl F1

16. Giant Begium

17. Gold Medal

18. Golden Sweet F1 -cherry

19. Grape -cherry

20. Green Giant

21. Green Zebra

22. Hungarian Italian

23. Japanese Black Trifele

24. Jaune Flamme -salad

25. Kellogg's Breakfast

26. Lime Green Salad -salad

27. Marmande -determinate.

28. Martino's Roma -determinate

29. Momotaro F1

30. Neves Azorean

31. Orange Flesh Purple Smudge

32. Powers Heirloom

33. Red Brandywine

34. Red Ruffled

35. Reif's Red Heart

36. Royal Hillbilly

37. Santa -cherry

38. Seattle's Best of All

39. Stump of the World

40. Stupice -salad

41. Sun Gold F1 -cherry

42. Sweet Baby Girl F1 -cherry

43. Thessaloniki

44. Tommy Toe -cherry

45. True Black Brandywine

46. Yellow Pear -cherry

47. Valoff -salad