With all the rain this past week, at least the temperatures have been held down. We are nearing the end of our black berry harvest with perhaps a week to go. Customers are stopping in who have been to other local farm stands, with bags of sweet corn, watermelons, peas, and butterbeans, so there is still plenty to enjoy. There are also plenty of red ripe tomatoes to be found and soon there will be okra for frying.
Okra does not like wet, cool, weather so this past week's rains will slow it down some, but the heat will return along with some drier days to allow it to catch up and start flowering soon. The cooler night time temps, in the lower 70's, have meant my tomatoes are blooming again to set on a new crop. Now if I can just keep the stink bugs off them till they redden up.
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