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  • From: "St. Joseph the Worker Farm" <jmmps AT rocketmail.com>
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  • Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Market-farming Digest, Vol 2, Issue 27
  • Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:15:54 -0800 (PST)

Yes, we are interested in the farm brochure too. We
were just talking about doing one... Thanks for taking
the time!

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Jackie
St. Joseph the Worker Farm
Northwestern Pa.

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Dear Leigh and List,

I think my driveway and yours must be having a race to see whose gravel gets
to the bottom first! Our driveway is 3/4 of a mile long and for the past 5
years it has done well and needed very little gravel. This year it all
pretty much disappeared at once. I have gotten my truck stuck several times
and had to pull it out with the tractor. A guy is supposed to bring me a few
loads of gravel this week- $200 for 16 tons-ouch.

I hate this feeling of being behind already with planting! Parts of my
garden are drying up enough to plant in soon. I planted some grass on about
1 acre yesterday, so Murphy's Law says that it shouldn't rain for a month
now! :-) Of course since I need to get into the field with the tractor, it
could rain for a week straight. Either way is good I guess.

One thing I am trying to do when stuck in the house in bad weather (besides
surfing the internet for farm stuff) is getting some things cooked/baked up
and putting them in the freezer for this summer when I won't have the
time/energy to cook. This is doubley important for me as like many of you, I
want my customers to eat more veggies and yet, in the summer, many times I'm
eating junk! Also my hubby drives a truck over the road a week or two at a
time to support the farm (for now) and he likes to take my homecooking with
him on the road.

I always figure out where I'm going to plant the earliest crops the fall
before, and prepare the soil and pull rows in early winter because if I had
to wait until spring to do it when it finally gets dry enough, it'd be a
month too late. Next fall I plan to pull my early rows again as usual, but I
will plant rye inbetween the rows. The soil gets a little crusty by the time
I plant in it, so I have to rake/hoe it to break it up before planting. This
year, I've got a cultivator to replace the rake/hoe, but I haven't tried it
yet as it is still too wet. I figure the crusting will diminish over time as
I get more organic matter built up in the soil.

The soil here is very tricky with it's high clay content. It stays wet for a
long time then can crust over and dry like concrete. There's just a small
window to work it in. It's especcially hard to figure out when to use a
friend's single shank subsoiler, the top 8 inches can be just about right,
but below that can still be sticky.

I'm still working on getting a hoophouse erected in the garden that I think
will be key to growing some early crops. I salvaged some homemade "hoops"
from a landscaping company and they need sanding and painting, but they were
FREE. I'll be setting up about half of it this week.

Anybody else have any thoughts on this late, wet, spring?

Amy K. Johnson
Johnson's Produce Patch
Long Island VA





  • [Market-farming] Re: Market-farming Digest, Vol 2, Issue 27, St. Joseph the Worker Farm, 03/11/2003

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