Vegetables
Jacob Springs Farm grows vegetables mainly for their own use aside from a few key crops per year. Additional stuff is grown in the greenhouse Whereas a vegetable CSA requires a great variety of veggies - Jacob Springs chooses instead to focus on a small number (less than half a dozen) of key crops per year – for 2016 that is garlic, salad greens, and herbs.
Contents
2017
planted as of March 1
- North side blocks
- (4 beds width)
- East end: winter wheat was planted but did not emerge very well and so it was tilled under to plant lettuce.
- Next Block west: winter barley "Scarlett"
- Next Block west: spring planted barley "Scarlett" (planted April 27)
- Next block west: South bed: planted April 27 Lentils (mixed 3 color), soaked and some sprouted (especially the orange and some of the black ones.
Garbanzos and beans in beds north (pinto, black, great northern mix)
- Next 2 row bed South: garlic
- Next bed south: sunflowers
- Next bed south: zinnias
- Next X2 Cukes
- Next Patty pan Squash
- Next Dill
June Planted
Row of sweet corn (3 varieties) with a second partial row of corn and carrots and chard. Immediately south of corn Partial row or corn Immediately south of that carrots (west) chard (just east of carrots) cantaloupe and Louffa (most of row) with small amount of yams. Mid-late June planted Popcorn - 1 row Mixed beans - 5 rows Mayocoba beans - 3 partial rows Anasazi beans - 3 partial rows
Notes: harvested potatoes Sept 13 Harvested 5 rows mixed beans Sept 25 - west end of the field is fully matured. East end is mixed Mayocobas not ready Anasazi beans ready
Baby Greens
- Next Russian Kale
- Next Spinach
- Next Red Amaranth
- Next Beet Greens
- Next Arugula
- Next Turnip
- Next X2 Cukes
- Next Patty pan Squash
- Next Dill
food plot
- 3 beds pinto beans
- 1 bed potato
- 1 bed onions
- 1 bed brassicas (2/3 cabbage and 1/3 broccoli, cauliflower etc...)
- +2 beds
2017 Planning brainstorm
- tomatillo
- Greens
- arugula
- mustard greens
- spinach
- kale
- cukes
- dill
(market in jars as pickles)
(root cellar)
- beets
- carrots
Recipe for sauce 2 tomatoes
Planting guide 2016:
Standard Beds are 2 rows, beds otherwise planted are noted Bed "1" is farthest south
- Bed 1 Garlic South Row: Aglio Rosso (East) - Chamisal Wild (West)
- Bed 1 Garlic North Row: Incelium Red (East) -Noootka Rose (West)
- Bed 2 Garlic South Row: Rose Du Lautrec - Silver White - Killarney Red
- Bed 2 Garlic North Row: Farm Variety Hardneck
- Bed 3 Garlic: Farm Variety Softneck in 3 rows
- Bed 4 Several varieties potatoes planted april 18-21
- Bed 5 South row: onions planted around may 1 , yellow, red, purple (order?)
- Bed 5 North row:
- East: Rutabagas planted May 13 using Jang Clean Seeder (JP-3) with wheel and 5" spacing (9 tooth gear, 14 tooth gear)
- West: double row South: various beets, North: various carrots planted May 13 using Jang Clean Seeder (JP-3) with wheel and 2" spacing (14 tooth gear, 9 tooth gear)
2016 goal:
For our needs:
- Trellis - 1/2 row peas followed by beans (direct seeded) - and cukes - 10 cuke starts
- Near Row - 75 Tomato 50 plants - 2/3 Roma, 75 peppers 2/3 pickling - 50 plants, eggplant start 25, tomatillos start 25
- 1 Row Cucuberts - winter squash - direct seeded 1 row. acorn, spaghetti, butternut, delicata
- 1/2. row Summer squash - yellow crook or straightneck - 8 plants, Melons - uzbeck and cantaloupe 15, watermelons 15
- 1/2 row - broccoli 20 - cauliflower starts 10 - kale - greens and beets
- 1 row Cabbage - 300' 250 starts
- Pinto beans - 2 rows
- Potatoes - 4 rows
- Onions - 1 row
Starts:
- 10 cukes
- 35 roma tomato
- 15 other tomato
- 20 pepperoncini
- 10 Serano/ancho
- 10 bell peppers
- 5 jalapeno
- 5 thai hot
- 25 eggplants
- 25 tomatillios
- 250 cabbage
- 20 broccoli
- 10 cauliflower