I try to enjoy the seasons, I try so hard not to be that guy who complains that it’s too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry. It doesn’t make much sense or do any good anyway.
New York has some seasons, sometimes you can have three in any given week. There is a lot of beauty as well. The first weeds on the Basha Kill start to peek up, the first green hues start to pop out of the brown and it says look I’m alive again.. the warm days of summer and light sheet weather, the snap in the air and the Shawangunk mountain slowly but then suddenly turning the autumn shades of orange yellow and reds. The way the pines get weighed down in our white snow and makes every shade of brown and evergreen vivid and striking.
North Carolina has seasons too, but it seems to be less drastic. It doesn’t get as cold, no months of snow, a summer that seem to last forever. Today is December and look at this picture. Sure it’s a Jamie Lee and Juliet and they both are pretty but look at the clovers still green on the ground.
It’s insane, we grew watermelons this year. Watermelons. We planted them pretty late too. You could easily do a spring and fall crop of certain vegetables Next year we have big plans above and beyond the hemp farming.
A short list.
Half acre of watermelons and some weird watermelon varieties too. Some yellow and orange fleshed melons, and a old heritage seed that is called stars and moon
Cucumbers for fermentation pickles radishes for pickling kimchi, some corn , tomatoes (if we can keep the goats away from them ) Jamie Lee wants to try pumpkins. I’m going to try cabbage in the fall.
I also have to figure out how to prep this area for my outdoor hemp crop. It’s off the road and kind of out of sight. I figure if I grow hemp to close to the road dumbass kids will see it and even if I put up a sign will either steal it or try to take selfies with it. Or every Dudley do right will call the cops.
This area has not had anything planted on it in some time. It’s all a bit over grown and it’s on the bottom of the farm, on the other side of the stream. So not only do I need to build at least a big enough bridge to cross the stream when it’s running good, but also would like to dam up an area to try to be able to pump water for irrigation.
I also still don’t have a farm tractor, no money in the budget for that anytime soon. My preliminary plan is to mow as much of it down late this winter, and try to aquire a good sized rototiller, I could even rent one for a weekend and abuse it like noone has ever abused a rental rototiller. I wonder how many acres you can rototill in a weekend?
Did I mention that I have a day job and a commute? Big plans and a lot of work in the next few months..
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