Year of the weed but also year of the fruit tree

The trees have very much appreciated the long wet spring. Of course we have already gone around the entire Farm three times hacking weeds clearing tree holes and mowing the orchard and still the grass is waist-high. Garden beds are also blighted with weeds but there are some successes.

Storage Onions

Except for some gopher loss the onions are doing great and we plan on having sufficient storage for the entire year. We of course have been eating arugula and lettuce for quite some time in fact we're on our third crop. Brassicas such as broccoli cauliflower have too not done well largely because of gopher pressure probably caused by the long wet spring and super weed growth. 

Tomato Rows

Just yesterday we put in 200 feet of tomato row. The plants are small but in this warm-weather they should do well