We’ve been busy this last week trying to get caught up with maintenance on our tractors and trucks. It’s always a challenge at this time of year because the trucks are out on the road most days, and the tractors are out in the field. One of the big advantages in having our own shop, as humble as it is, is that, in addition to saving us a lot of money, it is simply quicker and easier to do routine maintenance ourselves rather than having to shuttle a truck to an outside shop and back. And I can have my feline helper with me.
We’ve also finally found time to repair many of the annoying problems that we have simply lived with for the last few months because we never had the time–like the broken step on our “big” John Deere, or the belly bar on our cultivating tractor that dropped at a crooked angle.
On the production front, we finished transplanting our second block of leeks the day
before yesterday. The leeks are initially planted from seed in high-density “seed-beds” with eight lines on a bedtop and up to thirty plants per foot in each line. When the plants are the diameter of a large pencil, we dig them up, trim their leaves and roots and replant them much farther apart so they will have room to grow large. This was the first time that we transplanted them using our new Italian transplanter and it worked beautifully.
Don’t forget you can come load up on strawberries at our end of summer U-Pick days. We’ll continue the Strawberry U-picks on weekends through August 31st.
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