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+ | [[Jacob Springs Farm]] grows vegetables mainly for their own use aside from a few key crops per year. | ||
+ | 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. | ||
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Revision as of 18:46, 12 May 2016
Jacob Springs Farm grows vegetables mainly for their own use aside from a few key crops per year. 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.
Planting guide 2016:
Standard Beds are 2 rows, beds otherwise planted are noted Bed "1" is farthest south
- Beds, 1 & 2 several varieties of garlic (bed 2 has 3 rows)
- Bed 3 is several varieties potatoes planted april 18-21
- Bed 4 has 1 row onions planted around may 1 , 1 row carrots planted May 12 using Jang Clean Seeder (JP-3)
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