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Ottawa Area CSA Farm Blog: Common Ground » 2008 » June

Archive for June, 2008



Florida Weave

Published on June 27, 2008

Above is a picture of the garden as of today. Things are really taking off now with several vegetables just about to start production (notably cucumbers, zucchini and potatoes). As requested I am going to start predicting what will be in the weekly shares and letting people know a few days before. [...]


Weekly Share #2

Published on June 24, 2008

This week’s share still looks pretty green (they probably will for a few more weeks I guess). Included in the box are: several heads of lettuce (mix of ‘optima’ buttercrunch, ‘red sails’ leaf and ‘paris island’ romaine), bunch of preemie beets and greens, bunch of green onions and green garlic, bunch of mint, a [...]


All about me

Published on June 20, 2008

This is something my daughter did for me for father’s day (you may need to click on it to be able to read it). I think her teacher wrote down what she said. I guess the farm has been a big deal for her too this spring. That’s me in the red [...]


Weekly Share #1

Published on June 15, 2008

Well, it is a big day here at the farm. The very first pick-up of vegetables was today (photo credit goes to Don and his blackberry). In the picture you see mint, leaf lettuce, beet greens, green garlic, green onions, spinach, head lettuce and radishes. I guess the only ‘weird’ thing in [...]


Late Spring photo album

Published on June 9, 2008

First CSA box will be next weekend, I am pretty sure. I think it will include the following: radishes (shown above), spinach, green onions, green garlic, lettuce and whatever else I can scrounge up, probably some herbs. I really hope the spinach holds out until then. Here it is:

Here is what [...]


Egg-Mobile in the works

Published on June 3, 2008

Above is the beginnings of the egg-mobile I’m working on (click to enlarge). The weather over the last half week or so has been very wet. I can’t complain about the rain, but it is so wet I’m trying to stay out of the garden beds. I still have several flats of [...]