Frost is coming!
Greetings, friends.
We’ve had a productive and pleasant work week, complete with good weather. We managed to get our overwintered flowers direct seeded just before the rain came on Thursday. Our crew took advantage of the rainy day to work on preparing the high tunnels for tulips and ranunculus, while Elisa and I began our annual crop review! Throughout the week, we continued cutting out spent crops and planting cover crops in their place, harvested just about every flower we could cut, and made progress on cleaning the farm up in preparation for winter. Everything on the farm looks great, and we’re excited for a strong finish to the season!
Meg and Karen, using rakes to tamp down buckwheat cover crop before covering the beds with a silage tarp. These beds will be the first beds we direct seed into come March 1, so we’ll keep them covered over the winter. We try to have something planted in almost every bed on the farm over the winter, but we do reserve a few beds for this late winter planting.
It looks like next week will bring our first frost, and that will be the end of most of our cut flowers. After the frost, we should still have some high tunnel mums available, but this will likely be the end of most of our market bunches and bouquets! We’re sad to see them go (it feels particularly early this year), but we’re looking forward to cleaning up the farm and getting deep into planning for 2023! We’ve had an incredible season, and we feel so fortunate to have such supportive customers. Thank you all for coming out to the farmers markets, joining our CSA, and employing us as your wedding florists! We love what we do and we’re always thrilled to share it with you.
We’ll bring the first wreaths of the season to market on Sunday.
Market
We’re back at the JFX market on Sunday from 7:00-12:00.
This week’s market stand will feature bouquets, bunches of celosia, dahlias, eucalyptus, marigolds, mums, and hairy balls. The produce selection will feature edible flowers, ginger, pawpaws, and radishes.
Next week we expect frost, so our offerings are likely to change drastically at the market! This is probably going to be the last week for dahlias, bouquets, edible flowers, and pawpaws!
Thanks for reading!
Take care,
Amelia and the rest of the Two Boots crew
Elisa, direct seeding nigella. She says “this is the only time each year I feel like I’m actually doing farm work!”
Grey, lookin’ pretty.
Moonset over heirloom mums, early Tuesday morning.
Finn, showing off some persimmons. They sold out quickly last week! We don’t have any this week, but we’ll have a different variety ready to harvest soon.