We had another small harvest today! Submitted for your reading pleasure, our lovely story about pulling weeds, re-caging tomatoes and tying up limp peppers after a storm, and trying to figure out how exactly composting is supposed to work.

Saturday evening we had a little rain; from what I can tell via the internet, about four inches in two hours. This compounded with rather high winds and heavy green tomatoes proved that gravity is a force to be reckoned with.
We had our work cut out for us Sunday–well, it wasn’t too bad actually. There were perhaps seven plants that had fallen down with their cages. The bell pepper plants were all laying down (cage-less), and we had to put some steaks in the ground and tie them up.
After that we went ahead and did some regular maintenaince: pulled weeds, put down mulch, moved vines around, etc…
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Our compost barrels have finally arrived.  They look great.  Much better than I could have ever made them.  We have two plastic barrels modified to have a door in the side.  They sit about four feet off of the ground and have a two inch metal pole through the middle of them to help mix their contents.  One barrel is fully loaded and hopefully in three weeks or so we will have some ready to use compost-y goodness.   (more…)

We just had a huge day at City Farm.  Not feeling like jumping in feet first Derrick and I decided to go to the local farm store.  I had a few ideas bouncing around in my head about what to buy.  We purchased a ten foot garden hose so that we could move the reel into the garden fence, and a two foot piece of inch diameter hose to connect the rain barrels.  The big buy though was a propane torch.  We intended to use it to clean around the chain link fence and also try to finally get rid of some very belligerent mulberry bushes.   (more…)