The Weblog
This page contains news, event information, and other items added by Ian and Adam, the resident farmers at Old 99. We send out a message every week, but most are set with a delete date about two weeks later. I archive some of the posts if they have content other than weekly availability of produce and meat.
You can send me questions too, which if they are of a general nature, I can post to this Old99 blog.
Old 99 Farm week of Jan 24 2022
The deep freeze is taking its toll, we’ve lost some of the more tender greens in the greehouse. We still have rainbow and green chard, collards and kale. And the root veg in the cold cellar back up the carrots still in the ground.
On the other side, we have 15 flats planted and a couple of rows directed seeded: arugula is doing the best, followed by mizuna. Yet to poke their heads up are lettuce mix, rapini, kale, purslane and spinach, corn salad, bunching onions, chives and pak choy.
As a side note, to the gardeners on this list, if you buy turnips, cut the top off about an inch below the crown, plant it in some soil, even sand, it will grow turnip greens for you in a couple weeks.
All things start to come alive again when we get 10 hrs or more daylight, which will happen here on my birthday! Nice coincidence: Feb 9.
Healthy eating, keep your immune system strong, we’re headed into the home stretch of covid omnicon and most of us will get it without even knowing it.
Ian and Cami