Another week has flown by and the garden is all planted. Ken finished seeding the last of the melons on Tuesday and the last of the corn on Thursday; and Ben finished laying the last of the plastic mulch. “It is so nice to have time to do something else,” said Ben. The something else being more work in the garden. He has been laying the plastic just ahead of Ken seeding and planting for weeks. In fact this year Ken as been seeding in each layer of mulch as Ben rolls it out. I guess that would be called not letting the ground cool under your feet. Cassie has been weeding just as fast behind them; she is almost caught up. It takes at least one pass through everything to keep it weeded and then a quick second time to get the big weeds that are taking over the plants.
Corn on July 11th
Corn rows just 6 days later on July 17th
The garden this beautiful morning
We added a Farmers Market this week. Ben went to Liberty Lake Farmers Market while Cassie did the Colville Northeast Washington Farmers Market on Saturday. Ken and I both had to work at our ‘away from home’ jobs. We were up early, early to get off. It takes 2 ½ hours to drive to the Liberty Lake farmers market from our farm so Ben needed to leave by 5:30 in the morning. He did not get off until 6:00 and so arrived at 8:30. It is a market that everything has to be unloaded off the truck and then the truck is parked away from the site. The market manager likes the vendors to be there at least an hour early (8:00) so that there is not any danger to the customers and vendors walking in the area. They were sure glad to see him and the vegetables. It was very exciting and I guess he was still hipped coming home as in his words, “the Bobbies caught me.” He was trying to get around a slow car and when you exceed the speed limit in the passing lanes it is a “no, no” because there is not danger of oncoming traffic. Never mind the fact that they slow down when you can’t pass and it is legal to exceed the speed limit in an oncoming two-way traffic zone. The policeman ticketed him for $144. There went Ben’s profits for the day.
We are selling at four Farmer’s Markets this week including the Wednesday Colville market and Thursday at the South Perry Farmers Market.
The sun is shining and the veggies are growing, and we are taking the day off to praise the Lord and head for church. Have a great Lord’s day.
Sunday Morning
