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June 5, 2008
I can has sales!?
I've been trying to grow things and take care of animals. Yesterday, after digging up and rinsing off about 150 huge Walla Walla green onions, I made my first trip to the Farmer's Market of Leavenworth, Kansas, and sold out! Didn't make much money, because the weather has been odd and not conducive for growing a lot of things of late, however, it looks like we will have a bumper crop of wild blackberries and gooseberries. I know I can easily sell the blackberries - but the gooseberries, I'm not so sure about!
I have planted non-wild cultivars of blackberries and raspberries, but they will not produce much this year, as they are just getting established. I somehow killed all my grapevines, so I'll try them again next year. Or maybe sometime this summer, when I'm not too busy with other things.
The tomatoes are looking good, so are the potatoes and the various hot peppers and the basil looks wondrous.
My beans are not doing well - I must have put them in the wrong place - I think I'll still try them, only somewhere else, and start them in the ground rather than in the house.
I think I may need a greenhouse - Hmmmmm.
Posted by Beth at June 5, 2008 5:35 PM
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Cool! You may not have made much, but at least you know you have a market.
Posted by: Angela at June 5, 2008 9:55 PM
Mmmm, fresh Walla Walla's! Are they nice and sweet? My dad used to love Onion sandwiches and Tomato sandwiches. I like onions for cooking and such, but a whole sandwich ... no. Tomato sandwiches, though, are YummmmmmY!
Posted by: Barb at June 5, 2008 11:05 PM
YUMS!! Onions fresh out d earf. Nothing is more loverly.
As for tomatoes, we are so jonesed here in the Panhandle ~ gets so hot at night so quickly that the fruit won't set. major dad has been babying what was marked as some sort of large red beefsteaky 'mater in a patio container. The plant has grown larger, but spawned much smaller fruit...which are ripening an icy yellow. With two demonic tomato worms [I have a phobia...] picked off of it this very morning, it has proven to be a disappointment on top of a discouragement coupled with a distinct mis-representation.
Pooh. {8^P
Posted by: tree hugging sister at June 6, 2008 1:34 PM