We are harvesting again this week. It is a relief to see the vegetables are not too damaged. The leafy greens seemed to take the most damage, so there will be some slightly damaged vegetables in this weeks delivery.  Even with a weeks rest we did loose some of our younger lettuce beds so we will saddly have a lull in lettuce in the coming weeks. We are busy replanting lettuce seeds and seedlings to make up for the loss but we will still be a little bit behind.
Each time we harvest we clean beds right out and this leves us opportunities to reuse the beds.  With vegetables like head lettuce the remaining bottom leaves are gathered up and fed to the pigs (which they love) and we then work the soil. Dad often puts more composted dirt onto the bed to replace any of the nutrition that the previous crop used up. There are certain crops that will have composted manure added later.  Once the soil is worked and the bed prepped dad picks a vegetable that will grow well, because certain plants do better following each type of vegetable.  In this particular case there was head lettuce and we choose bunching onions to go into the harvested bed. We start all our vegetables in soil blocks so we do not use plastic pots and transplanting is easier. Dad uses a cake spatula to pull the onion blocks out of the trays and set them into the holes dug for each one. The spacing is precise to make harvesting and weeding as
effortless as possible. It is nice to utilizes the space in our garden to its optimum amount