Rain Starting

We’ve planted out the first rounds of tomatoes and potatoes. We direct-seeded the bush beans, and we are erecting the netting trellises for the peas to grow up. This year, weather and farm variables permitting, we are going to have sugar snap peas, shelling peas, and snow peas. Snow peas are new this year: They have a flatter pod, and are typically used in stir fry, when you cook them. They’re also sweet enough to be eaten right off the vine.

As for the first pickup, we can’t of course, make any promises, but we are hoping for the first week of June. The plants are running a little late; they’re sulky right now because of the cool weather.

The heavy rain has not caused us any harm. We have been doing pretty well because we have good drainage except at the far back at the back edge of the field next to the forest. There’s a shady enclosed one-acre plot that juts out into the swamp there. It’s sheltered from the wind, and members wouldn’t typically go there because it’s not in the you-pick area, ever. We do have some crops back there already, but it seems to have weathered the soupy soil back there. We’ve picked things that don’t mind the water, like lettuce.