Crop Updates
GREETINGS FROM WHEELER BROOK FARM:
SPRING: Our busiest time of the year has awakened us and our farm from the winter’s dormancy. We hope this message finds you well and working in your yard and gardens. For many of us this year, spring cleanup was a huge effort after the later winter storms. We required two weeks of raking, sawing and carting away limbs, trees and branches to clean our fields and paths.
So now after several beautiful weeks, some hot weather and a little less than enough rainfall, we already find ourselves at the beginning of the harvest season. We will begin picking strawberries for the stand tomorrow, Memorial Day as well as rhubarb and tender tasty lettuce. Barb is arranging her flower bouquets and we have an assortment of colored geraniums for sale. More vegetables and flowers will be available as the season progresses. Our small flock of New Hampshire Red chickens are supplying us with a limited number of fresh brown eggs which we also keep in the stand refrigerator.
All of the seedlings started in the greenhouse are now planted and appear to be establishing themselves for summer production. Late blight which decimated much of the potato and tomato crops of farmers and gardeners everywhere has already been verified in several states. The blight spores travel in the air so if conditions are cools and wet, infections can be anticipated. You can learn more about the fungal disease and prevention practices by visiting state university agricultural web sites.
One last
note: WE ARE NOT PLANNING TO OPEN FOR PICK
YOUR OWN STRAWBERRIES
THIS YEAR!
I made that decision
last year after raising a good crop and experiencing days of rainfall which
resulted in few pickers and spoilage of the crop. Disgusted, I plowed most of them up and
decided not to grow strawberries any more.
I guess it was a hasty decision but we now have only enough berries to
supply the farm stand. We did plant
more strawberries this spring so we anticipate doing pick your own again next
year. Please accept my apologies.as we know many of the original and first, and
second generation of pickers look forward to the strawberry season. Maybe after forty years of PYO berries,
we deserve a break. In any
case, we will have pick your own blueberries and
raspberries probably beginning mid-July.
Best regards,
Farmers Bob and Barb
SEASONALLY AVAILABLE CROPS
PYO Small Fruits
Strawberries mid June - early July 7:30am - 6:00pm
Blueberries mid July - late August 7:30am - 6:00pm
Raspberries early Sept. - hard frost 7:30am - dusk
Vegetables
Beans, Beets, Brussel Sprouts, Broccoli, Cabbage, Canteloupe,
Carrots, Cauliflower, Cucumbers, Corn, Eggplant, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Endive,
Kale, Mesculun, Onions, Okra, Bok
Choi, Radish, Turnip, Peas (Shell and Edible pod),
Peppers, Pumkins, Rutabaga, Spinach, Tomatoes, Squash
(summer and winter), Swiss Chard, Watermelon, Herbs, Parsnip
Barbs Blossoms 
We also sell and arrange fabulous cut flower arrangements at our farmstand.
