Last Update: September 01, 2010
This has been such a unique growing season! Beyond all else, it demonstrates to us nature’s great resilience. From the very late spring rains that inhibited us from getting early plantings into the fields, to the unusually cool June and July weather, crop productions were a bit slow in California. But then, after a few much needed August heat waves, everything was set into motion. Currently, we are heavy into the harvest of almost every single crop we grow from a wide range of peppers (bells, jalapenos, poblanos and chillies) squash, corn, string beans, raspberries and blackberries. Additionally, we are undergoing ground preparations and seed selections for next year’s garlic and strawberry crops, and we are also looking over field audits in order to make plans and projections for next year’s growing season. Although September is a busy month for us, we very much enjoy hearing from you, so please don’t hesitate to keep sending us your crop-related questions by selecting the email link below! – Tim Chiala PEPPERS We are heavy into this year’s pepper harvest, especially our green peppers including Poblanos, Jalapenos, Chillies, and Bell Peppers. The quality of the peppers is excellent this year because the temperate spring and summer helped the fruit form nice thick walls.
SQUASH The quality of the squash has also been really good this year due to the cooler weather, but the yields suffered until recently. Now recent heat waves have pushed yields up, and the plants are doing well.
BEANS Both our Organic and Conventional Bean crops have been doing very well. Harvest should continue on into November.
GARLIC We are currently working the ground and finishing up our seed selection process in preparation for our fall plantings. We will be growing both Organic and Conventional garlic next season.
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RASPBERRIES / BLACKBERRIES Organic Raspberries and Organic Blackberries are both doing well, though their fruit production is tapering off (which is typical this time of year). We anticipate more fruit production again in mid-October.
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