![]() ![]() ![]() Sunday morning we were back at it, finishing up around lunchtime. ![]() We managed to get through half of the plants before it was time to get them covered with row cover to keep cucumber beetles at bay and set-up the irrigation lines. Saturday afternoon, after finishing with the sweet potato planting it was time to get the half acre of winter squash plants in the ground. Winter squash plants ready to transplant (left) and winter squash plants in the field (right). Then I tagged in and stuck the sweet potato plants in the ground while Jeff moved on to finishing prepping beds for winter squash, another crop we’d moved the timing on this season. While Jeff hilled the beds and laid out the landscape fabric we use for weed control in sweet potatoes, I got through the week’s propagation duties of filling flats and sowing the next round of sweet corn seed. Once again it was time to shift focus and prepare the beds for sweet potato planting. Then the sweet potato slips arrived in the mail. We managed some of the cultivation, some of the trellising, some of the weeding. We attempted to get the work schedule back on track after operation save the potatoes. Now we wait to see if the effort to save the potato patch worked. We used the Stand ‘n Plant planter we’d purchased some years back to plug the new potato seed in the ground. instead of splitting up Thursday to tackle cultivation and trellising and weeding, we spent the first half of the day working together filling in gaps in the potato patch where the potato seed hadn’t sprouted. We had pushed our potato planting back a bit this year and it happened to coincide with the heatwave back in May, which wasn’t great for getting potatoes in the ground. Our plans got thrown off a bit this past week when we realized it was time to deal with our poor potato sprouting situation. Looking east from the sweet potato beds (left) and sweet potato slips straight from the mailbox (right). ![]()
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