{"id":2442,"date":"2010-05-04T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/getting-ready-for-harvest\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:45:29","slug":"getting-ready-for-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/getting-ready-for-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The harvest season approaches here at the farm, and we are readying for the May 12 start to the CSA season. As is the case each Spring, there has been a lot of planting, growing, cleaning, painting, excitement and anxiety filling our days.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a photo of Emily, Matt and Rebecca planting the cherry tomatoes in one of our no-till beds. They grew well in the greenhouse and are now covered with a heavy layer of row cover to keep them warm. We are a bit concerned that the over 300 tomato plants we have in the field right now won&#8217;t like the predicted 36 degree overnight temperatures on Saturday. We will do what needs to be done to protect them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/S-ANHoWWOUI\/AAAAAAAAAlE\/Q9EYJ6s9yuM\/s1600\/cherry+tomato+042810.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467384372369176898\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/S-ANHoWWOUI\/AAAAAAAAAlE\/Q9EYJ6s9yuM\/s320\/cherry+tomato+042810.JPG\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/S-ANH-AYqoI\/AAAAAAAAAlM\/IEmo9T4rS_s\/s1600\/cherry+tomato+plant+042810.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467384378182642306\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/S-ANH-AYqoI\/AAAAAAAAAlM\/IEmo9T4rS_s\/s320\/cherry+tomato+plant+042810.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other crops are growing well. Rebecca took the electric G through the onions on Saturday, cultivating 5 beds in a matter of minutes. Rocky later conducted an inspection and luckily decided not to nap on them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/S-ARt_MTzqI\/AAAAAAAAAl0\/fTk-VSSD7bw\/s1600\/rocky+onions+0410.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467389429382631074\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/S-ARt_MTzqI\/AAAAAAAAAl0\/fTk-VSSD7bw\/s320\/rocky+onions+0410.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The strawberries are LOADED with flowers. Our virtually weed-free organic bed looks great. This is the third year for these plants, so we are hoping that the berries they produce aren&#8217;t too small (slows down the picking). Expect these delights at the end of May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/S-ARt_MTzqI\/AAAAAAAAAl0\/fTk-VSSD7bw\/s1600\/rocky+onions+0410.JPG\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/S-ASanY20JI\/AAAAAAAAAl8\/GaDczYq_1dI\/s1600\/strawberries+050310.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467390196086919314\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/S-ASanY20JI\/AAAAAAAAAl8\/GaDczYq_1dI\/s320\/strawberries+050310.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lettuce for the first week&#8217;s share is sizing up nicely. It has been covered for over a month, and will remain covered until the latest cold spell is over. On Monday we harvested the leeks for the first week&#8217;s shares. They have been in the ground since last May and about a third of them did not survive the bitter cold of last winter (but the rest did). As they are ready to form their flower\/seed head, we needed to dig them up now while they are edible. We have about a pound per share. See you next week!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/S-ANIaELsCI\/AAAAAAAAAlU\/0nt_b8cSw8c\/s1600\/lettuce+042810.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467384385714761762\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/S-ANIaELsCI\/AAAAAAAAAlU\/0nt_b8cSw8c\/s320\/lettuce+042810.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/S-ANI7YgYkI\/AAAAAAAAAlc\/UVOWfRV6Xws\/s1600\/leeks.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467384394658374210\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/S-ANI7YgYkI\/AAAAAAAAAlc\/UVOWfRV6Xws\/s320\/leeks.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The harvest season approaches here at the farm, and we are readying for the May 12 start to the CSA season. As is the case each Spring, there has been a lot of planting, growing, cleaning, painting, excitement and anxiety filling our days. Below is a photo of Emily, Matt and Rebecca planting the cherry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/getting-ready-for-harvest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting Ready for Harvest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69633,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/69633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}