Just a wee update on our summer farming skills. This is our second summer here on the Central Coast, where days can be sickeningly hot. So far, we've only had a week or so of plus 100 degree weather, but there's gotta be more coming. Last season our crops sucked ass. We had no idea what we were doing and pretty much dumped it all in and threw some water on it every now and again (we really did do more than that, but barely). The results were astounding: we cooked everything before we even got it out of the ground.
So this season we decided to check soil PH, add drip systems and pay attention. Below is the fruit of our labor. We built these raised beds about two months ago and planted them a week or so after that.
June, 2014
July, 2014 (Today, to be exact)
It's been at most six weeks and somehow we've grown a whole jungle. I've actually found a tiger hiding in there. And, you know, sometimes the plant's foliage will be all huge and braggadocio but it's fruit sucks and you'll get like three piece of crap tomatoes from it (which happened to us all last summer). Well, not this time. Below you can see our average-sized cucumber. The zucchini and tomatoes and squash are all equally as bulging. We have so much produce now that my dogs have decided to go vegetarian. Now that's a true farm dog.
(What in the hell do you do with sixteen of these?)
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