Mom and I got a lot of harvesting done on the farm yesterday. We spent about 3 hours digging potatoes, and then I spent one more hour tackling the squash and cucumber patch. Lots left to harvest still, but today is a recovery day.
While scything through the squash patch, I also went through the section where the tomatoes had been planted. Looks like they did come up, but they just weren’t aggressive enough to keep up with the living mulch method. Same with the carrots and basil. Good to know! I can still use the scatter-and-till planting technique for them, I just need to make sure I can keep the weeds down by hand.
Everything needs harvested all at once. I really need to get my house built so I can do a little every day instead of these once a week marathon workdays. I don’t have the stamina for this.
“Everything needs harvested all at once.”
I feel that way all season long! Glad you had a good day at your farm. The upcoming weather looks fantastic; this might be a nice, long, cool Fall. Perfection, IMHO.
I had a terrible potato crop this season, but all of the small ones so far have been delicious, steamed.
Scything is a lot of hard work! I am not much of a potato grower...no space here...but I do see youtubes of people who till , put down their potatoes, and cover them with hay or straw which makes work easier! I remember you talking about the scatter sowing method. Here, unless I do transplants of strong young plants, the sowbugs and pill bug destroy the seedlings.