on the farm table

Friday, 11 July 2025
4:15 p.m.
Nothing on the farm table at this time.
Thank you to the person who returned egg cartons and left additional stock!

The few basil plants that are still growing in the greenhouse will be the last ones I will be offering for the spring/summer gardening season.

I don’t know yet if I will be offering any fall/winter garden plants. Depends on how soon I get the greenhouse refurbished, as many would need to be planted in July.

My Sunshine Gardenhouse greenhouse is about 30 years old and is in need of some maintenance, especially since I’ve used it so heavily the past few years.

I need to empty it out, clean the glazing, repair and refurbish the redwood frame, pour in a fresh gravel floor, clean all the light fixtures and reset the shelves so that they are not putting stress on the greenhouse structure.

Also, I’ve been using a lot of extension cords, so my husband Scott will help me by putting in more outlets. Scott has already helped A LOT by designing, building and installing automatic vent openers — much better than the chunks of 2x4 that I was using to keep the vents opened that depended on me being there.

All that is going to take me a while, so I don’t know yet if I will be producing any fall/winter gardening plants.

I hope you all are enjoying your plants this year so far, and I wish you a bountiful harvest!

• Sherry

This morning I harvested broccoli’Gemini’ and ‘Purple Magic’.