Pumpkins & Squash

This year John & Curtis are expanding the crops we grow here at the farm with a side venture growing some festive fall vegetables.  The boys have planted a plot with white and orange pumpkins, butternut squash, pepper squash as well as decorative corn.  Their first challenge was figuring out how to plant the seeds using equipment we already owned.  So they modified the corn planter by cutting some of the fingers out of the finger assembly.  (The finger assemblies are the silver circles John is holding in the slideshow above.)  This enabled the new vegetables to be spaced out properly in the field rows. We are all eager to see how the new vegetables fare over the summer.  You can look forward to seeing all their items for sale at the farm door in the fall.  For a sneak peek of the bounty you can expect to see at the farm later this season you can visit “Tater Tales Aug 25th: #eatlocal”