After the long weeks of rain departed and the sun started shining, our crops and garden took off with a bang!
Clay is happy to be soaking up the sun. Our short-haired dog did not approve of the rain and clouds.
The corn is close to head high and some is starting to tassel.
Over knee high on June 25
Over chest high on July 10
The barley is getting close to harvest. It won’t be too long before you can drink it from a Coors can.
The beans are really taking off.
The garden is growing like crazy. I’m picking zucchini and anxiously awaiting tomatoes and peppers.
Garden on July 2…
…and then on July 10!
The sweet corn is all tasseled. If all goes well, we’ll sell some at the Platte County Farmer’s Market this year.
Sweet corn on June 25
Sweet corn on July 13
Even my herb garden is providing abundant offerings.
A bouquet from my herb garden: mint, Shasta daises and lavender.
Tyler and our farm employee, Brian, have been chasing water like mad. Irrigation is a huge task in our arid climate.
They’ve been preparing pivots and cleaning out plugged nozzles, cleaning irrigation ditches, laying out gated pipe and plastic ditch and ditching rows and diking the ends of the flood fields to control the water and ensure it runs down the rows.
And that’s just to prepare for irrigating! Then they actually have to set flood water and manage pivots to irrigate the crops. It seems like this happens all at once. Two guys and 1400 acres makes for a lot of hard work and long days.
But Clay doesn’t mind. This is his favorite time of year.
God Bless You & American Agriculture,
Liz
Yet we hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work and meddling in other people’s business. We command such people and urge them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and work to earn their own living. As for the rest of you, dear brothers and sisters, never get tired of doing good. 2 Thessalonians 3:11-13 (NLT)
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