2010 sweet corn sales schedule

The ceremonial washing of the tables can only mean one thing; sweet corn season is upon us.
We're going to start picking Weds July 21st.
The 2010 schedule is:

Weds - U of Mn market, Church Street, 11 am to 2pm
Thursday - Nicollet Mall, 8th and Nicollet 10 am to 5pm
Saturday - Minneapolis Farmers Mkt, 6am to 1pm
Saturday - Mill City Farmers Mkt, 8am to 1pm
Sunday - Minneapolis Farmers Mkt, 6am to 1pm

In our family we always take 4th of July corn photos. the corn is progressing nicely; not too weedy and plenty of silks showing so we are expecting to start harvest somewhere between the 17th and 20th.
Emily and Austin are good kids and not too grudgingly give in to this yearly ritual. It's getting pretty hard to call Austin "the boy"; we still manage to blame him for everything that goes wrong.

I got an excellent deal on a nice cultivator; it'll take some modification to fit my row width, however its in good condition and the discs on the ends will help hold a nice line on the hillsides.

Some of the corn is quite spectacular, some really suffered with all the rain and has yellowed. One can see a little of both in this photo. The last few days of sun and warmth has improved conditions in the field dramatically.

Today, finally, I was able to cultivate pumpkins. Normally I would have rotary hoed a comple times and cultivated by this point, however, the rains made that impossible. Vines don't normal do well with that amount of moisture. Fortunately these are on a nice fertile hillside on Karen C's farm. The weed pressure is managable and I see almost no bug damage. Quite lovely I think

in spite of my minimalist management, there is going to be buckets of strawberries soon