Author: Wayne

We have held off saying anything about our tomatoes. We have been harvesting a few here and there for a few weeks, but the supply did not warrant getting all of you excited about it. The unusually cold April followed by an unusually warm May, combined with a particularly dry spring overall has been the cause for our tomatoes being late.

Well, tomatoes are officially for sale here at High-Fence Farm. We don’t know how long they will last, so you better get a move on. Pictured here are the slicing tomatoes, but we have salad and cherry tomatoes as well. If you are looking for a paste tomato, we didn’t grow any this year. Paste tomatoes have not done well for us in the past years, being susceptible to fungal diseases more than the other types we grow.

Don’t forget we also have:

• Okra
• Peppers of all kinds
• Yellow Squash
• Zucchini

Soon but not yet:

• Cowpeas
• Snap Beans
• Pickling Cucumbers
• Cantaloupe
• Cooking Pumpkins (not those silly, useless Jack-o-lanterns)
• Winter Squash- Butternut, Spaghetti, Baby Hubbard, Honeyboat Delicata (the little striped ones)

Come see us, but call ahead to make sure we have what you need and you find us here. Stay tuned.

Well, we slipped up earlier this year and failed to start a second round of summer squash and zucchini in a timely manner, so that when our first crop succumbed to squash bugs and vine borers, the new crop would be ready to step in and take over. The result has been a high-summer gap in the availability of these squashes. It could have been worse since we didn’t forget to start them at all.

Because of the madness of the sweet corn harvest we got way too busy to be timely. Corn is past and gone with the stalks chopped down and hauled off to the neighbor’s goats. That spot of ground is now clear for round two of beans and round three (maybe round four in a month) of summer squash and zucchini.

The point of this post is to announce that our summer squashes are soon to be available again. Probably by Monday we will be having a steady harvest of yellow and green. Give us a call to come out and get yours. Don’t forget, we have okra, peppers, and a few tomatoes too, which you can come out and get this weekend. The squashes won’t be available until later next week. Stay tuned.

Don’t let the date bother you. At High-Fence Farm we don’t believe in luck, good or bad. Look up the word providence. That’s the word here.

As crops come in and out, we thought an update would be in order about now.

• Corn is done. We had a wonderful sweet corn crop this year, but alas it has ceased.
• As the corn has been getting cleared away we have been sowing winter squash and pumpkins in that space. This year we will not offer the acorn squash or the classic Jack-O-Lanterns, only Butternut, Honeyboat, Baby Hubbard, Spaghetti, and Royal Prince squash; and Cinderella and Jarrahdale pumpkins.
• Squash, both yellow and zucchini, are about done. In fact the zucchini is gone completely. Don’t fret however, we planted a second (and third) planting that will begin to bear in a couple of weeks. We should have plenty by the first of August.
• Cucumbers are about in the same category as our squash. We are getting a couple of small picklers (Kirbies Mrs. Farmer calls them), but a new row has been started. The seed isn’t up yet but we are looking for it every day.
• We do have TONS of peppers, sweet and hot. We even have a few of the infamous Carolina Reapers.
• Green beans–we have a few.
• Eggplant–we have quite a few.
• Tomatoes are coming in slowly, but we have some.
• Okra has finally begun to put out like it is suppose to for this time of year.

Come see us. For best results call ahead, please.