The Urban Farmer’s Almanac

This is an interesting post from the local wannabe-farmer message board this week:

We just enjoyed our last 2009 home-grown tomato this week! For the first time we tried hanging our tomatoes up to ripen indoors when the rains arrived last fall. Last November we cut the stems that had green tomatoes on them and hung them over our kitchen sink. We just cut 2-3 foot-long stems and strung them up in our kitchen window (which doesn’t actually get any sun). It was a big improvement over the previous year, when I pulled entire plants up and hung them in our garage — and then kept forgetting to check them.

I was amazed at how much time had passed between harvest and getting to enjoy the last of the tomatoes.

Leslie

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The Jersey Supreme asparagus that we planted last year is just starting to come up.

I keep checking the asparagus bed for signs of life, and finally today there were two tiny little asparagus spears poking out of the ground. Asparagus patches take a couple years to establish so we bought crowns that were supposed to be ready the next year and planted them last summer. Asparagus are kind of the divas of the vegetable world; I had to dig an 18 inch ditch to plant them in, let them grow some, then bury them up to their necks, so to speak, in more dirt. However, once they’re established, an asparagus patch will apparently last 10 years or more. With any luck, they’ll be our first edible crop this spring, and for many springs to come.

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