Certified organic produce
Days are getting shorter and nights are getting colder. High & Dry Farm is still producing terrific crops of tomatoes, but this will last for just a week or two more.
High & Dry Farm’s self-serve farmstand presently has these certified organic items for sale- Farmstand address: 32814 120th St. SE, Sultan, WA
We just finished transplanting the last row of our high tunnel with cucumbers. We have 270 tomato plants and 450 cucumber plants, and all them are growing by leaps and bounds now that the weather has finally warmed, after one of the coolest springs in recent history. It will be another couple weeks before we…
Large healthy certified organic tomato plants in “trade” gallon pots, are now available for purchase at High and Dry Farm. These are $9 each, including tax. This is slightly cheaper than the big box stores charge for plants that are not certified organic. Plants can be picked up at our self-serve farmstand at 32814 120th…
If cherry tomatoes tasted nasty we would still grow them because they are so beautiful. It’s just a bonus that they are delicious.
We spent late June in Spain. We visited Bilbao, Salamanca, and Madrid. In each city we ate Salmorejo. Each recipe was subtly different, but all were amazing. Comparisons to gazpacho are unavoidable, but Salmorejo is, hands down, the best cold soup on earth. It is simplicity itself as the only ingredients are tomatoes, bread, olive…
The hoophouse is now producing prodigious amounts of tomatoes and cucumbers, much appreciated by our customers at the Snohomish Farmer’s Market.
Today I harvested the first cucumbers, and the first tomatoes from the hoophouse. Tomatoes included , Alicante, Flamme, Aunt Lucy Italian Paste, Coyote, Earl of Edgecombe, Baselbieter Rotelli, Beams Yellow Pear, Sebastopol, Indische fleiche, Slava, Bloody Butcher, Kimberly, Tigerella, Buckbees New 50 day, Amy’s Apricot, Amy’s Sugar Gem, Washington Cherry, Aurora and Debarao.
Our high tunnel is now fully planted with tomatoes, cucumbers and melons and plants are already sporting tiny fruit.