Day 70

Burge pom poms

Today started out pretty rainy and then things went from bad to better, you thought I'd say worse didn't you? Shame on your Monday thinking. But really everything worked out because we needed to work in the hoophouses. We started out in Main House field picking okra (yay) only with the rain I actually sunk a foot into the ground (boo). After that fiasco we weeded the beans and peas, so long pigweed.

After

Next we ripped out the strawberries from the hoop house and the smell made me think about Erica's strawberry spaghetti, man I am always hungry around all these fruits and veggies! Then we ripped out the sunflowers (don't be sad, there are more planted) and pulled up the roots which is what you see us banging together to knock the dirt off before woods disposal. And then we's hungry so off to lunch.

Finally! Here's trellised tomatoes in lower field

When we got back Erica and I worked on replacing plastic row covers and planting cucumbers. Then we got an emergency tomato picking call from Cory. So off we go to lower field for harvesting 911. There were some not-so-hot looking tomatoes (tomatoes can get pretty gross kids) from bugs or blossom end rot. Then some interesting ones that were real lookers, I guess you have to take the good with the bad, like with people. In this case we throw the bad ones into the woods...come to think of it, there are some people I'd like to throw in there too.

Brains!!! (Our zombie tomatoes)