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RVP-Appologies for the market this week
This post expired on July 03, 2023.
Between two markets last week, helping my dad with his best wheat harvest ever and helping my brother bale straw and hay so he could attend a funeral out of state, the RVP market was not on my mind (even though it should have been).
We also finished up our first successful garlic harvest. It is all bunched and tied up in the shed drying. After we pick out our seed garlic for planting this fall, we will have it for sale. I am very happy with the harvest.
Tomatoes are starting to come on heavy, the plants are loaded. They are so loaded that one of the top strings snapped under the weight and they flopped over! The tomatoes are fine, it just will make harvest a nightmare!
Cherry tomatoes are being harvested. They aren’t as heavy as last year, I am not sure why, but they taste wonderful!
We finally hit it big with bell peppers again. It has been a few bad years with heat and bugs, but they are doing great!
Zucchini is blowing me away and the cucumbers are knocking on the door.
Our melons this year are slower, despite planting them on the exact same dates as last year, they are just behind. The like the heat, so last year they were very happy. We have cut back to our top sellers Red, yellow and orange watermelons and two cantaloupe varities including Tasty Bites, an unbelievable flavored little cantaloupe.
Our winter squash is growing nice, with lots of blooms.
Finally our sweet potatoes are looking very promising! They are vining out and almost covering their whole area.
We will be selling in Manhattan in a few hours today, from 4 til 7 at CICO, so if you can stop by it would be great!
We also will be selling in Manhattan an Clay Center on Saturday. At first I was only going to be in Clay Center, but Katie, our oldest, said “Dad, I can sell in Clay Center I did it all last week”. I guess we will turn her loose and see if she can. Mom will be near by and some helpful neighbors will be set up next to her if she needs any help.
Happy July 4th and I will be opening up the market next week for sure!
Thanks,
Jay