PLANTING, WEEDING, WASHING, HARVESTING

We added shade cloth to the tops of our washing

tables.  This will be nice for washing vegetables in

the summer and provide a lot of shade on hot

summer days.

Missionaries demonstrating the shaded 

washing stations.

All the vegetables are washed and put in

these white crates to be transported to the

Bishop's Storehouse nightly to ensure the best

possible produce harvested.  Today we harvested

Broccoli.

Missionaries are sorting cauliflower prior to being

washed.  This is the earliest we have harvested 

in the two years prior.  We give credit to starting

the vegetables in the greenhouse before transplanting

to the grow boxes.

Another view of cauliflower being washed.  Note

everyone washing and handling the vegetables are

to wear "blue" gloves.

We are still weeding carrots.  We have two grow boxes

with carrots.  The boxes are 85' long and 5.5' wide

so we have a lot of carrots that need weeding.

We placed weed cloth on the other box of carrots

and when we plant carrots again in about 3 weeks

we will plant with the weed cloth to keep the weeds

from spreading and so the volunteers can help with

the field.

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The above volunteers are weeding the corn.  After the

corn is weeded a pre-emergent will be applied to

keep the weeds from growing.  This has to be

applied after the corn is about 3-4 inches tall.

Another view of our grow boxes with tomatoes planted in the

foreground with sawdust surrounding the plants to keep the

weeds from growing.  In the rear is another view of the

carrots and lots and lots of volunteers helping with the farm.

We are grateful for all the volunteers that come to help.

A closer view of volunteers weeding the corn.  We

have beautiful corn growing this year.

Missionaries planting in the greenhouse.  We

are constantly planting to ensure a bountiful harvest

at the right time.  These missionaries are planting

celery and pumpkins.  Planting pumpkins now will

ensure they are ready to be harvested in October.

The peppers are growing nicely.  They have been in the ground about 2 weeks.  This year we planted Green Bell and Anaheim peppers.

On Saturday we planted Butternut and Spaghetti squash in the field.  These plants were grown in our greenhouse.  In the field we irrigate the vegetables.  In our grow boxes we use a drip system.