ready to sell

On Saturday some of us came over to the farm and picked out peppers, ground cherry,potatoes and onion chives in a bunch, we picked them out so that we can start selling them at the farmers market on Sunday which means that every Saturday we pick the fruits and vegetables out and on Sunday we sell them out to people, if you farmers market buyers are reading this come on down to Park Street and buy something from us Madison farmers.

What's Ready And Not, Or Semi-ready

This week Shellie cracked opened one of our 1st ready, yellow watermelon and it was yellow alright and juicy and sweet enough to tasted like a watermelon. It was my first time eating an yellow watermelon.

Some of the tomatoes were ripening so 3 people went, search and than plucked them off. I learned from Shellie that if you let the red tomatoes unpicked than the mice would scramble towards the sweet smell and bite a big chunk of it.

Mr.R picked 3 cucumbers this Monday, I think, and they were long.

We check on how the carrots were doing yesterday, which the area needed hoeing and weeding. They were still small, maybe an inch long. Shellie said they were sweet and they were, kinda.

I thought the green beans were so cute. They were long, skinny, small and most of all they were pale green.

The pumpkins were beginning to grow their flowers.

Lots of peppers were dangling from their stem.

Weeding Weeding Hoeing Weeding Hoeing Weeding

These past weeks we have been mostly hoeing and weeding the onions, carrots, green beans, ground cherries, sunflowers, watermelons, peppers and tomatoes. I was more of a weeder than a hoer. I'm so thankful for the gardening/working gloves we have. If not I imaging our hands would have leave cuts instead of leaving paper like cuts and skin to bug that is like eww.

The Effects Of TLC

On Monday morning, we observed our plants instead of working because the dirt was being soft and muddy. I notice the watermelon plants that were dying became less wrinkly and decaying into a more lively and light green plant that you wouldn't even notice it was a plant that needed TLC. I thought to myself that with the simple ingredients of TLC any plant can grow and live on.

TLC tender loving care

We were all asssigned a plant that was not doing so well, and we showed the plant tender loving care by putting more compost on it and watering it so that the plant can grow well. When we are done with one we can move over to another plant that was close to dying and took care of it

I love working with the students from the P.E.A.T. program because they are always willing to learn new things, they work Great as a team, and they never complain about hard work. Like last week when we got a lot of rain, they never complained once about working in the rain. They we're actually excited to get down to business and work hard as a team. They have set the bar high for the students next year!

Rainy Days

With the help of the rain drops on Monday morning, we finally finished watering the plants from Thursday morning a lot faster. :D

Ruined Radishes

Ok, so on Tuesday and Wednesday we picked a whole lot of radishes that Daniel planted. So me and Leondray rinsed them off for the market then we put them in a bucket and SOMEBODY left them in a bucket of water no fingers pointed. So then the next day we had to put them in the compost and that whole area smelled really bad.

grow out peppers

This week we started to pick are first bunch of peppers. we where amazed of how red and green they were with a fresh smell of many types of peppers.

The Curious Case of the Ruined Radishes

One day we were picking the radishes I planted in the field and Robert gave us bucket to put them in he also told us to water them immediately after harvesting them. And I filled the bucket with water the next day i poured the water out and somebody filled it up with more water and left it in there and they got ruined so we put them in the compost.

smelly radishes

Left them in the water they got really bad. on monday rain we saw watermelons there was 16 of them. cucumbers was growing well.

The Watermelon

Our watermelons started growing this week. It's amazing how fast they grow each day. I'm calculating that within 3 to 4 weeks we will have full grown watermelons. I love the fact that all the plants we have been growing are chemical free.It's all hard labor, strength, and determination that's made these good looking, fresh smelling plants.

week of farming

P.E.A.T.- This past week we have found 16 watermelons we also have pick some of our vegetables that we have grown. We have pick peppers and radishes. we made a mistake and left the radishes in water wick we now know spoils the radishes. This past week we also celebrated a birthday.

Time for Harvesting

This week we began to harvest some of our crops. The crops we harvested this week were radishes and peppers. After harvesting our radishes, I for the first time in my life ate a radish and I thought that they were pretty good. I also enjoyed the hot peppers that we grew because I love spicy food. About a day or two after we harvested our radishes, they became ruined because S O M E O N E.....left them in water. Therefore as of right now we have no more radishes that are harvested. As for the peppers, we have plenty of them and they all are very nice sizes.