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Remay Day

7/15/2010

 
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Today was a nice day for farming, and once again we got a lot done!  In the morning, we started out with a little game of catch phrase to get everyone’s minds ready to start work.  We separated in our groups of three right away.  The tasks were weeding thistles over at the far end of the farm, staking tomatoes, and preparing lettuce, collards, and kale starts.After our usual twenty-minute break at 11:00, one group measured out remay and cut it into strips to cover the brasica plants.  Remay is a fabric-like sheet that covers some of the leafy vegetables.  This is an organic farming method used to reduce the chances of the crops being eaten by insects.  The other groups planted beets and strung up tomato twine.

Thursday is the day that we harvest for the Congo Square Market, since the market is held on Friday.  Today we were able to harvest kale, a bunch of zucchini and summer squash, plus collards and parsley.

Nancy Norton link
7/20/2010 02:28:50 pm

Is remay the same as floating row cover? Does it heat up the plants - I have worried about that and so I haven't used the floating row cover in my garden since the last late frost. It looks like I may have to do some research to learn something new and useful. We put out the transplants/seedlings this spring, I thought the black plastic would keep down the weeds. Is it too thin to accomplish that, or were the holes too big? I'll have to come out the the farm to check it out. Thanks for writing the blog and updating everyone about the progress being made.


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