Farm Weekly Update 6/9/2017

Well, we finally finished strawberries for the year. I almost want to put an exclamation point at the end of that statement because it’s been such a long and tiring season, but strawberries are one of our favorite crops, so I can’t be too excited.

Our strawberry season this year lasted over 11 weeks! We picked our first strawberries on March 17th and picked our last buckets on June 4th. That’s a long season! Hopefully everyone had a chance to come out and enjoy our delicious berries.

Now that the strawberry plants have stopped producing, we are in the process of replacing strawberries with pumpkins. Yes that’s right, we’re going to be growing some pumpkins this year! Strawberries end at the perfect time of year for pumpkins to be planted. That makes it easy on us as farmers. When the strawberries are done, we get them out of the field and plant some pumpkins in their place.

We also began harvesting some fresh cucumbers and squash out of the field. No more early greenhouse vegetables, we are in prime season now!

Tomatoes are on their way as well. Nothing is ripe yet, but there are some little green ones hanging off the plants. Shouldn’t be too much longer now. There are still a few more tomato plants to be planted so we should have a nice, long tomato season as well.

Keeping us the busiest are the onions. We planted some onions late in the season last year to let them overwinter and be ready in the spring. Then we planted some more in early spring to be ready later. Well, as luck would have it, all of the onions came ready at the same time. We have been very busy pulling onions, drying them and bagging them. If you want some fresh, local onions you don’t have to look much farther than Piedmont Produce. We have plenty!

We are definitely keeping busy over here on the farm. Don’t forget to connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to keep up with all the happenings.

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