This is the same field which was just plowed in the early morning picture shown here.
That's 1500 feet of row space- 5 rows 300 feet long. Enough for about 800 tomato plants. We'll have another couple of sets over at Charlie's field along with about 20 more mixed melon rows, all that same length.
It's still a few weeks until the Grants Pass Irrigation district gets us water so there'll be a brief period where this field will have water hauled to it. The ultra good water news is that Charlie got the pump running over at his field so Hoorah! for Charlie. Now we can finish prepping the corn field, maybe get it planted by Monday.
Glorious day to you!
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I know you are, but what am I? Oh, wait a minute...
Hey Mike! You Rock! ( literally )
That's a bunch of tomatos and other stuff! It's really cool to 'know' someone who feeds the people, literally.
There's no way for me to get anything like an exact count of my customer base, it varies quite a bit from year to year. However, I'm pretty sure tens of thousands of people enjoy the fruits of my labor.
We used to grow a broader variety of products, some years up to 50 different items. And we do try new things every year. For instance we found a nice niche market for asian melons 3 varieties of which we found good enough to bring back this year. This year we've tried 4 varieties of eggplant from India and Thailand and 4 heirloom muskmelons from Europe and the middle east.
I can't say that we've been a blazing success, every year poses new challenges and some years major setbacks but we've struggled through 18 years now and we'll probably get by a few more.
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