Anyone Need Tomatoes?

Tomatoes, tomatoes, and more tomatoes.  The tomatoes at the farm are producing fairly strong.  But with the weather turning coder and the days getting shorter, Andy things production will slow down.  The large pinkish tomato is a Heirloom tomato that has been handed down to Andy from  his parents, from their parents...I love them.  We agree that they are our favorites.  They have the best flavor of any tomato in the box this week for sure.  But you need to eat them quickly...like tonight...because they don't keep long no matter what you do.  The long skinny tomatoes are Italian heirlooms.  they are meaty like a  Roma.  The orange-red ones are hybrids called Mt. Fresh.  The other tomatoes have the best taste but the Mt. Fresh have the better yield and you can keep them longer than the other two.

 

 

 More About Growing Methods Used At Cedarmore.

 

How does Andy build up hi soil you ask?  First, Andy believes that animal manure is a very important part of the soil building process.  In the winter when the grass is not growing they keep all the animals in the barn and bed them down there.  Before adding the bedding they sprinkle a layer of corn.  They do this all winter to build up a layered effect.  Then in the spring the animals go back out.  Andy then turns the pigs loose in the stalls where the other animals have been all winter.  The pigs root and get to the corn in the layers.  They are actually mixing everything together.  This turns the nice bedded manure pack into rich compost.  All of the compost gets spread on the fields in the fall.  Then the plants benefit the next summer.