Going To The Market.

[Hickory]

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This has been a twice weekly event for me the last 3-4 weeks.
Only this is the first time I thought about taking a picture.
Probably keep me busy 'til October.

[Wayne Smith]

A classic truck farm, eh??

[Hickory]

A classic truck farm, eh??

Yea, I need to do something to keep myself busy or else I'll waste my days setting under the big cotton wood tree in the back yard watching the clouds pass by.

[MaryB]

cabbage has me thinking sauerkraut...

[Hickory]

My sweetcorn sales really well.
This is the third year growing it.
It is very sweet, and the ears fillout very good.

Within 30 minutes of arriving I sold 22 dozen ears.

I'd like to have more corn next year, but it's not a good idea to plant sweetcorn in the same place more than once every 3-4 years. Cabbage is a big saler too, which suprised me.

I don't grow much of the standard stuff, like tomatoes, peppers and onions, here the competition is too great. But, my sweetcorn now has a reputation and it sales very well.
I also have the edge on garlic sales, this may not last long, because others at the market are starting to grow it.

I like doing this and I like it when the season is over too. I get the winter off to rest and plan for next year.

[KAF]

At the Northtown Mall????

[Garyshome]

I hear the weather has been not so good up there this year. Good to see you've got some produce.

[Wayne Smith]

Frank, you can grow corn on the same ground year after year but you do have to fertilize correctly. You need to put back into the soil what the corn took out. My dad was a professional farmer. At one time he was the second largest producer of dry beans in the State. We had a truck garden in Maine that he grew sweet corn in year after year. That was long enough ago that I learned to count making change at the farm stand at the end of the driveway. We were on Rt. 100/11 in Central Maine, the primary north/south route through the state before I95.

[Hickory]

At the Northtown Mall????

Bryan square.
Keith come up and visit.
Tue. 7:00am til noon
Thurs 3:00pm til dusk

[KAF]

Before corn season I remembered my aunt in TN cookin for us when we visited, long ago.. fried corn. Last summer I told my wife we should try making it, that is how we fix it now, very tasty.
Maybe week after next will be shooting in middle IN nest week.

[monadnock#5]

That's some really good looking produce you have there. I love green peppers, cooked or raw.

[6bg6ga]

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This has been a twice weekly event for me the last 3-4 weeks.
Only this is the first time I thought about taking a picture.
Probably keep me busy 'til October.

Should be enough of that good looking produce to purchase a new gun with the profits.

[Hickory]

Should be enough of that good looking produce to purchase a new gun with the profits.

Actually I'm paying off a gun I bought over the winter with this produce.

[reloader28]

Awesome looking load.
I love those crates. Wooden crates are very classey.
I had the perfect scraps from a project in the wood shop and made similar ones to hold canning jars.

[WRideout]

I read in the Pittsburgh paper some time ago that a local guy who just wanted to adopt a slower pace of life started a business selling fresh chives to the local restaurants; just chives, nothing else, and he actually made an income off that.

Wayne

[Shiloh]

So,is this being taken or returning from market?? If returning, I see pikcles, aundried tomato, etc.

Shiloh

[DLCTEX]

Just curious what you get for the bell peppers? I'm paying $1 ea. for green and $2.50 for red or yellow. I will be planting my own next year.

[Hickory]

So,is this being taken or returning from market?? If returning, I see pikcles, aundried tomato, etc.

Shiloh

Shiloh, this is going to the market, only brought back a few tomatoes.

[Hickory]

Just curious what you get for the bell peppers? I'm paying $1 ea. for green and $2.50 for red or yellow. I will be planting my own next year.

Green bell peppers almost twice as big as your fist 3/$1.
Red bell peppers same size 2/$1.
Tomatoes 2/$1 as big as your palm.
Garlic size of hens eggs 3/$1.
Sweetcorn $3/doz.
Cucumbers 10+" 2/$1. Small 6-7", 5/$1.
Greenbeans $16 per bushel.

[MaryB]

Never to many tomatoes. I love tomato juice and could go through 30 quarts or more a year drinking it for breakfast