I told Alx in the early spring I would send him some pictures of the farm where I work.
Well...being the day before New Year's Eve I am going through my list of 'things I said I'd do this year". So, here you go Alx.
I work at an organic farm on the Front Range of Colorado. We Farm about 18 acres in three different fields.
I took these pictures the first week or two of June.
On the forum here this summer there was talk about caging tomatoes and different ways that people here support their tomato plants.
We trellis our tomatoes at work. I do this at home too.
I can grow tomatoes 2 feet apart this way. CU did a study showing that you get higher yeilds when you trellis because of the extra sun exposure. IMO this is the way to grow tomatoes.
THese tomatoes were planted the first week of March and kept in Wall-o-Waters. That's why they are so big. When I took this picture we just took off the Wall-0-Waters and we have to trellis right away or the plants fall over.
We grew about 500 heirloom and cherry tomatoes in WOW. We like to give them a good start on the season.
In the above picture you can see the field tomatoes planted to the top of the picture. We planted about 4000 field tomatoes.
Just a picture looking at the other side of the field.
We are certified organic so we have very little defense against pests. We use remay/row cover to keep bugs off the plants. That's the blanket looking stuff you see. The brassicas get worms and catapillars if we don't cover them.
The first leeks this year
Parsnips and burdock
One of my main duties is taking care of the herbs for restauant orders.
Anyway, here is a piture of some horseradish. We sell a ton of hoseradish root! I think it is a beautiful plant.
Below here are our early potatoes. We grow them under plastic mulch. They grow so fast we don't have to weed them with the plastic.
Here are the late season potatoes after hilling them up.
More brassicas under row cover.
This is probably my favorite farm implement. It's called a "water wheel'.
That is our token vegan hippy sitting on the water wheel.
It's pretty self expainitory what it does right?
Two people sit on the back of the WW and the tractor slowly moves forward and the WW dibbles holes and deposits water in the dibbled hole and the 'passangers' stick the plant in the hole.
Close up of WW
Planted out. It takes about 20 minutes to do a 100 foot row.
So, there you go. A day at the farm with Mo.
Thanks for looking and staying with it if you got through this whole post.
Mo
Well...being the day before New Year's Eve I am going through my list of 'things I said I'd do this year". So, here you go Alx.
I work at an organic farm on the Front Range of Colorado. We Farm about 18 acres in three different fields.
I took these pictures the first week or two of June.
On the forum here this summer there was talk about caging tomatoes and different ways that people here support their tomato plants.
We trellis our tomatoes at work. I do this at home too.
I can grow tomatoes 2 feet apart this way. CU did a study showing that you get higher yeilds when you trellis because of the extra sun exposure. IMO this is the way to grow tomatoes.
THese tomatoes were planted the first week of March and kept in Wall-o-Waters. That's why they are so big. When I took this picture we just took off the Wall-0-Waters and we have to trellis right away or the plants fall over.
We grew about 500 heirloom and cherry tomatoes in WOW. We like to give them a good start on the season.
In the above picture you can see the field tomatoes planted to the top of the picture. We planted about 4000 field tomatoes.
Just a picture looking at the other side of the field.
We are certified organic so we have very little defense against pests. We use remay/row cover to keep bugs off the plants. That's the blanket looking stuff you see. The brassicas get worms and catapillars if we don't cover them.
The first leeks this year
Parsnips and burdock
One of my main duties is taking care of the herbs for restauant orders.
Anyway, here is a piture of some horseradish. We sell a ton of hoseradish root! I think it is a beautiful plant.
Below here are our early potatoes. We grow them under plastic mulch. They grow so fast we don't have to weed them with the plastic.
Here are the late season potatoes after hilling them up.
More brassicas under row cover.
This is probably my favorite farm implement. It's called a "water wheel'.
That is our token vegan hippy sitting on the water wheel.
It's pretty self expainitory what it does right?
Two people sit on the back of the WW and the tractor slowly moves forward and the WW dibbles holes and deposits water in the dibbled hole and the 'passangers' stick the plant in the hole.
Close up of WW
Planted out. It takes about 20 minutes to do a 100 foot row.
So, there you go. A day at the farm with Mo.
Thanks for looking and staying with it if you got through this whole post.
Mo
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