It's hot!

Hopefully everyone is staying cool in this weather. I went out to run irrigation at 6 this morning and was surprised by how comfortable it was. I got inside to eat breakfast around 7 and got back outside at 7:30. Suddenly it was a lot warmer and you could really tell that it was going to be hot! Of course hot weather is great for a lot of our crops. We harvested carrots this week, which means that we had to wash carrots too. Not surprisingly, carrots come out nice and dirty and require a good amount of washing to get them clean. We pull the carrots and put them in buckets. Then we let them sit in water in the cooler until we wash them later that day.





At the end of the day we have dirty buckets and clean carrots!





















This week we've also been setting up irrigation. The tomato field got irrigation first.


You can see the black driptape lines running at the base of the plants. (Also notice that the tomato field has a lot less weeds than it had in the last picture that we took.)

Driptape drips out water literally one drop at a time. One advantage is that only the soil gets wet which helps our plants stay disease free (since most plant diseases flourish in a wet environment). The other advantage is that we can water a large squash field all at once using the least amount of water.



We've also started planting our fall crops. This morning we got cabbage and cauliflower planted. You can see our super high tech drip tape dispenser!