August 13 Farm Update

Rain gauge reading 3 inches all in less than one hour

Ghost Pepper plant

Cantaloupe

Red beets

Peppers

Tomatoes

 Cabbage and tomatoes on the right.

A few hours after the storm

Eggplant

Sunflowers

Newly exposed red beet stems stand out against the green

Elliot Russell Zamora, B-day 7/25 

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Tomorrow (8/14) is the first day for Wednesday pick up members, 8/15 for Thursdays and the first day for Sunday pick up members will be 8/18.

This week will be an assortment of sunflowers, zinnias, and a few other “fillers”.

There will be four weeks of flowers: 8/12, 8/26, 9/9 & 9/23.

The pick up day for members at DU is changing to Tuesday next week 8/20.

There are several other Wednesday afternoon pick up locations in Denver, so if changing to Tuesday will not work for you, please let us know and other arrangements will be made.

After a couple days passed and clean-up was well under way it was easier to assess the damage from last week’s hailstorm.  Tomatoes, eggplant, peppers and basil were hit hardest.  There is hope for some tomatoes to pull through, and you may see some damaged eggplant in upcoming shares.  While their foliage has been badly damaged, the root crops will survive.  Beets and carrots will be topped for a few weeks.  Fall planting has started, so more radishes and salad greens are coming in about a month.  Since we have several sweet corn patches spread over a few miles area, only the corn here on our farm got much hail, so good news for the sweet corn which you will continue to see over the next few weeks.  Pumpkins, squash, melons and cucumbers got hit pretty hard but we are hopeful to harvest something out of the patch.