Fiddle Creek Farm

Week 28, scenes from a midweek harvest day on the farm, produce and flowers for our Salad Club, Chad, Jill, and the Wolfhounds shop, Comox Valley Farmer Collab, Marc-André Dubois, GIGI’S OYSTERS, Tidal Café.

Fresh bed of mixed baby mustard greens for our salad mixes.

Broccolini and lots of herbs this week.

Zucchini is starting to produce well.

A total fail year for carrots over here, due to poor germ on a few early beds and total purslane takeover on some May and June plantings. The one beds of carrots we now have is becoming ever more precious goods. We’ve got some planted for fall now. but we have some serious rust fly pressure here so the success of those beds is very much tbd.

Some sweet peas and other fresh cut flowers for bouquets heading to Chad, Jill, and the Wolfhounds shop. I’m totally not keeping up with the sweet peas this year, so it looks like I’ll be collecting a lot of mixed sweet pea seed 😅

Flowers for drying. Pictured here is some larkspur, dahlia, snapdragons, strawflowers and more.

Week 24 update from the field. It’s hot hot hot. We’ve been trailing some new irrigation (sumi soaker) to help with even coverage and mid day misting to help cool down all the greens. So far, looking good! Will be switching over our wobblers to sumi lines soon. More than half the farm is on drip irrigation, some is on overhead (where we grow the greens) and a small section is an unirrigated dry plot.

Some real big bok choy coming out of the field. This is my first time growing it, and I’m loving it!

Peas are nearly there, hopefully just a week away.

Stock for bouquets and edible flowers. Sometimes I love the smell and sometimes I hate it.

So many lettuces right now. Swimming in lettuces!

Zucchini just around the corner too. Yay!

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