Farm Pictures

 A row of potatoes, just starting to come up nice (there are 3 rows total).

 

Some very pretty Mountain Rose Potato plants. 

 

 Six and a half rows of heirloom tomatoes, all different colors of cherries, slicers, and paste tomatoes.

Valley City Farmers Market Beginning Soon!

Just wanted to let everyone know that the first Valley City Farmers Market of the year is going to be on Saturday June 9th, starting at 9a.m. to 12p.m.  It will be located at it's normal location at Liverpool Township Depot, 6615 Center Road in Valley City, Ohio.

I can not believe that market time is almost here, time just flies.  Anyhow for the first market I should have available a variety of my salad mixes, mustard green bunches, kale bunches, radishes, scallions, and maybe some beets, turnips, kohlrabi, peas and possibly some other things.  Of course I plan to have some kinds of bread available, not sure exactly what yet.  I also hope to make some dog treats, and maybe some other new surprises.  I will be sure to post here what exactly we will have available before the market starts.

Pictures - Cold Crops Planted

Here are a couple pictures of some of what I have planted so far.

To the far left (in the above picture) I have a bunch of stuff that I started by seed, including peas, turnips, beets, radishes, and carrots, there is also a row of onions.  The row that is almost in the middle of the picture are cabbage, broccoli and some cauliflower plants.  Under the row cover I have mustard greens and kale.  I covered them with the row cover to protect the plants from bugs and deer.  Then to the far right you can see some of my garlic.

What I planted from seed was kind of slow coming up for a while, since I planted it just before we had some cold weather.  Luckily it was cold but not wet if the ground would have been wet the seeds probably would have rotted, but they are coming up good now, so hopefully I should be alright.

I have all my lettuces planted elsewhere at home, once everything gets bigger and picture worthy I will post a picture of my lettuce area.

Grey Treefrog

So I did a little searching online and I believe the frog below that I posted a picture of is a grey treefrog.  I guess these guys are the largest treefrogs in Ohio.  They are also able to change colors to many different shades of  grey, brown, green and black.

Here is a good site with a bunch of info on these guys:
Cleveland Museum of Natural History Site - Grey Treefrogs

Cool Frog

So I was out planting onion sets about a week ago, and the neighbor from across the street came over saying he had something he wanted to show me.  He brought over a patio stool/table, or whatever you want to call it,  with this cute little guy on it.  He said he had just been sitting there for most of the day.  I think it may be some kind of tree frog, but to be honest with you I am not really sure if it is a frog or toad.  I did a little searching online and have not really found anything exactly like it just yet.  Anyhow I just thought he was really cool, and figured I would post the picture.  Unfortunately it is not exactly the best picture and does not really do the little guy justice, but it is still pretty cool.

Plant Pictures

I have been meaning to take some pictures, and finally did.  The picture below is of my plants that I have started under lights in my basement.  Some eggplant, celery, peppers hot and sweet, and lots of tomatoes.

This is a picture from in my hoop house outside of broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and brussels sprout plants.

Hopefully I will get a chance to get them in the ground soon, since they should have already been planted.

Some kale plants in the hoop house, waiting to go into the ground.

 

Some mustard green plants.

Some cute little Mexican Sour Gherkin Cucumber plants.  These guys have the cutest little cucumbers that are not even dime sized.  I need to transplant them into larger pots and start to train them up a trellis in my hoop house, hopefully I will be able to add them to some of my salad mixes.

Hoop House Complete At Last!

 

I have finally completed my hoop house!  It took me almost all day yesterday to finish it.  Being that it is so small I thought I could have it covered fairly quickly, so I did not think it was going to take me as long as it did, in fact after it was all done I was kind of exhausted.  At least it is done, now all I have to do is get the shelving and tables (old pallets on buckets:) together, and I am all ready to start some seeds in there.