Today I finished up the main weed remediation and did not even take a photo of it. Was just too hot and tired. It was going over the area at the Ness farm where the onions had been planted with a STIHL weed wacker set up with blades. That is how bit the weeds were, and what I needed to lay them all down.
It was even a bit of work making sure we harvested all there was.
Nell had the camera, was in charge of photos and hauling flats of onions to the fan as Phoebe and I filled them up.
I am sure that the weeds did restrict how big the onions got, but the size of the ones we got was pretty good. Copra and Yellow Spanish did well. Red Zepplin sized up all right. The issue we had was mice, which I have never had as an issue in onions.
They ate the tops off of a lot of the onions.
Ate into some of the onions.
And just left little onions cups for the giant sweet Walla Walla, and most of the Alisa Craig onions.
Ended up with 10 flats of onions. Honestly, just a bit more than we got last year, and had thought we would have a lot more. Will be enough for us, and some to give away, but not near as much to gift as planned.
So that is all curing in the front yard before going into storage.
Saturday Nell and I took a trip out to Montrose to dig up the 129 hills of potatoes out there. Stopped at our friend Dan Gustafson’s guitar shop, Crow River Guitar & Sound, before heading to the field.
It was hot. We had to take a lot of water breaks. Dug up all of the hills. Averaged only about a pound of potatoes per hill. That was a little hard to take. We had problems with CPBs there, and they killed most of the plants before the spuds could size up. Really glad I have another 130 hills at the Ness farm. Still have to dig those, but had no insect issues there, so unless there is some other issue we discover, it should triple what we have, and again be more than we need.
There is still garlic to harvest, both here in my yard, and out at the Buffalo garden. Beans for canning should be getting going. On Tuesday I will check how that is coming. Have those plantings timed for August harvest. This coming weekend we plan on at least one day of blackberry picking down at my parent’s place. Things are in full swing.
