Re: Anyone out there?

Here in Arkansas (also zone 7) we are well into the early summer. 
Temperature today was 92 and humid.  We market garden and the local
Farmer's Market opened last Saturday.  We missed the opening due to illness
but made it on Tuesday.  We currently have multiple varieties of leaf
lettuce (we sell as a mixture), radishes, green onions, zucchini and yellow
squash, green and purple beans, sugar snap peas, and baby carrots.  Most of
the tomato plants I first transplanted have at least one tomato.
The English peas were gone before the market opened.  My broccoli didn't
make it.

Starting to see grasshoppers and this is a big worry as we lost four rows
of beans last year overnight when we got hit.  We have our chickens
free-ranging outside our fenced-in garden to keep the varmits down as much
as possible (unfortunately, in the garden, a full grown heavy chicken can
do a lot of damage chasing the bad bugs).

Tomorrow, after the Market, I will probably pull the last of the lettuce
and the onions that have bulbed and replace them with another variety of
green beans and multiple varieties of tomatoes.

Still looking for additional unusual varieties for the Market.  This is how
we compete with our intensively farmed 1 acre vs the larger 10-20 acre
Market Gardeners. We can't compete on the commodity market (just like
anyone who raises their own chickens for meat is going to lose vs Purdue or
Tyson pricing). 

We also raise sheep (the fleece in our name).  Any spinners out there
looking for fleeces?  Our Jacob sheep have beautiful brown and white mixed
fleeces.

Rich

Purrfleece Farms
purflece@alltel.net

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> From: Grem, Beth A <GremEA@navair.navy.mil>
> To: 'veggie-list@eskimo.com'
> Subject: RE: Anyone out there?
> Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 9:17 AM
> 
> Well, let me see if I can stir up a discussion.  So how's the garden
doing?

			(snip)

> Beth (MD zone 7)
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