Early-September Update
What an interesting time late summer is. Sure, temperatures are leaning toward the cooler end of the dial and the days are noticeably shorter, but how the plants have reacted is nothing short of, well, interesting.
Moving over into the slow lane, the tomato plants seem to be getting ready to make an exit by month's end. Who can blame them? Outside since May 22, they've done an admirable job, surviving searing heat and several storms.
The lettuce and spinach are thriving, however. By mid-September, we'll be able to harvest some of the spinach, and, if it's anywhere near as frost-tolerant as folks say it is, we'll be enjoying fresh spinach easily through the end of October. After that, there probably won't be enough sunlight to sustain growth, what with all the trees around the grange. To help everything along, a fresh dose of Miracle-Gro was applied early this morning.
Pictured is a fairly typical daily harvest. While we no longer see daily yields like that (this was taken back in early August), we can still get a similar harvest every four or five days.
Moving over into the slow lane, the tomato plants seem to be getting ready to make an exit by month's end. Who can blame them? Outside since May 22, they've done an admirable job, surviving searing heat and several storms.
The lettuce and spinach are thriving, however. By mid-September, we'll be able to harvest some of the spinach, and, if it's anywhere near as frost-tolerant as folks say it is, we'll be enjoying fresh spinach easily through the end of October. After that, there probably won't be enough sunlight to sustain growth, what with all the trees around the grange. To help everything along, a fresh dose of Miracle-Gro was applied early this morning.
Pictured is a fairly typical daily harvest. While we no longer see daily yields like that (this was taken back in early August), we can still get a similar harvest every four or five days.
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