on the farm table

Thursday, 19 June 2025
4:13 p.m.
Nothing remaining on the farm table.

TBH, this makes me a bit sad. I really enjoy growing the little plants to put out on the farm table.

(The basil plants in the greenhouse are still too small to leave home. Basil tends to sit there seemingly doing nothing for quite a while before sending out much top growth.) I will put them out when ready and post here.

A 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’.