Last Outdoor Market of the Season
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Paul's Grains
Sep 8, 2014, 8:32:03 PM9/8/14
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Greetings to each of you!!
We just wanted to take a few minutes to let you all know that we will be at the Des Moines Downtown Farmer's Market this Saturday, September 13th. It will be our last market for the summer. It would be a good time to stock up on cereal and flour for the winter. Give us a call (641) 476-3373 or send us an email: sp...@heartofiowa.net. The sooner we receive your orders, the easier it is for us to fill them.
We aren't real excited about the summer coming to an end. It has been cool enough that we are wondering if we really had summer. The garden has done well. We canned tomato paste and pasta sauce last week. We just brought in a couple more lugs of tomatoes today, so we will have to decide what to do with them. The cucumber and summer squash vines served us well. The green beans are still setting on new beans. The shell beans--pintos, black-eyes, kidneys, etc. have nearly stopped. The eggplant still has some pretty fruit on it. We will need to dig our white potatoes as soon as the ground dries out. The sweet potatoes will probably keep growing for awhile as long as we don't have a frost to stop them. The peppers did wonderfully this summer as well as the carrots and beets. It will be nice to have everything tucked into the freezers or jars and no longer have to care for them, but we will miss the leisurely walks out to the garden to pick our lunches and suppers.
The field crops of corn and soybeans should be ready to harvest in a couple weeks. They look good at the moment. Some of the fields have been sown with their cover crops for the winter. Hay making has been an interesting experience this summer. We had a very difficult time finding a long enough dry spell for it to cure. We still have some that would be nice to make into small bales for the goats and sheep, but it doesn't look like that will happen anytime soon. The forecasters say that we could receive 1" to 4" of rain between tonight and Wednesday. It would be nice if it was on the lighter side of the prediction. It has been a blessing to have so much rain after a couple drought years, so we aren't complaining. We need to be thinking about getting some firewood into the furnace room before long, too.
Our son and daughters are looking forward to their cousins spending a couple weeks with us again this fall. They all work together so well. It is amazing how much they get done and also to see how much fun work can be! They will be cleaning out the goat barn and chicken house, making firewood, pulling out carpeting for wood flooring, combining soybeans and picking field corn for a start. Then there will be the annual making of a play to share with the rest of the cousins, Dutch Blitz, Monopoly, jam sessions with all their string instruments, and sitting around in the evenings just enjoying each other's company.
Here's hoping you are all enjoying the days the Lord has given you and we hope to see all of you who can make it to the market on Saturday!
Teresa (for the Paul family)
We just wanted to take a few minutes to let you all know that we will be at the Des Moines Downtown Farmer's Market this Saturday, September 13th. It will be our last market for the summer. It would be a good time to stock up on cereal and flour for the winter. Give us a call (641) 476-3373 or send us an email: sp...@heartofiowa.net. The sooner we receive your orders, the easier it is for us to fill them.
We aren't real excited about the summer coming to an end. It has been cool enough that we are wondering if we really had summer. The garden has done well. We canned tomato paste and pasta sauce last week. We just brought in a couple more lugs of tomatoes today, so we will have to decide what to do with them. The cucumber and summer squash vines served us well. The green beans are still setting on new beans. The shell beans--pintos, black-eyes, kidneys, etc. have nearly stopped. The eggplant still has some pretty fruit on it. We will need to dig our white potatoes as soon as the ground dries out. The sweet potatoes will probably keep growing for awhile as long as we don't have a frost to stop them. The peppers did wonderfully this summer as well as the carrots and beets. It will be nice to have everything tucked into the freezers or jars and no longer have to care for them, but we will miss the leisurely walks out to the garden to pick our lunches and suppers.
The field crops of corn and soybeans should be ready to harvest in a couple weeks. They look good at the moment. Some of the fields have been sown with their cover crops for the winter. Hay making has been an interesting experience this summer. We had a very difficult time finding a long enough dry spell for it to cure. We still have some that would be nice to make into small bales for the goats and sheep, but it doesn't look like that will happen anytime soon. The forecasters say that we could receive 1" to 4" of rain between tonight and Wednesday. It would be nice if it was on the lighter side of the prediction. It has been a blessing to have so much rain after a couple drought years, so we aren't complaining. We need to be thinking about getting some firewood into the furnace room before long, too.
Our son and daughters are looking forward to their cousins spending a couple weeks with us again this fall. They all work together so well. It is amazing how much they get done and also to see how much fun work can be! They will be cleaning out the goat barn and chicken house, making firewood, pulling out carpeting for wood flooring, combining soybeans and picking field corn for a start. Then there will be the annual making of a play to share with the rest of the cousins, Dutch Blitz, Monopoly, jam sessions with all their string instruments, and sitting around in the evenings just enjoying each other's company.
Here's hoping you are all enjoying the days the Lord has given you and we hope to see all of you who can make it to the market on Saturday!
Teresa (for the Paul family)
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