A rainy week nevertheless tomatoes seeded

After the start of January has been pretty sunny and dry the rain has finally come and kept us from working in the field much.

There are not any complaints for us as we get to focus more on the office work and take some additional time off.

Over the weekend the farm got 1.9 inches of rain and 2.4 inches in total over the last seven days.

That brought the total for the rain year on the farm to 9.5 inches. It is much less rain than last year but that was expected as that was an extraordinary rain year.

At this point last year we had gotten more than 20 inches of rain. We may not even reach that amount in total rain for the year.

Its going to take a few days for the soil to dry out enough for us to get in the field but fortunately we got a little weeding done before the rain started.

The cloudy and rainy weather makes it a fantastic reason to spend as much time as we can in the greenhouse seeding spring and summer veggies.

This week tomatoes were planted into trays. We are already imagining how amazing they are going be when we harvest them and can’t wait for that.

Being an early planting we are focusing on the varieties that can do better with slightly cooler temperatures they will experience early on in their growing.

The next two plantings of tomatoes are the biggest ones and have the most variety in them.

We also seeded some more broccoli and cauliflower. This is our second and last succession of cauliflower for the spring which will be ready to harvest in May before it gets too hot for the cauliflower.

In other exciting news it is almost time for us to be back at market. We will be back at the Saturday Davis Farmers Market February 3 with lots of greens, lettuce, carrots, turnips and more.

It has been nice for many of the veggies to have a little break from the market to grow more while not being harvested. The days are getting a little longer and especially after the recent rain combined with some sun they will be growing much faster than the previous few months.

There have been a few crops ready to harvest during this break from market that we could not hold in the field so we have been selling them to the Capay Valley Farm Shop and Spork Food Hub.