Harvest Visit to UW Farm

Bright Lights chard, in a glorious field.

Tomatoes growing the Italian style, trained along a single cord coming from overhead. Productive!

The tomatoes are pruned to two main stems, which are then trained and tied (if necessary) to line that comes down from overhead. It’s a very efficient way to grow.

This strawberry tower is a great design — just needs a few more plants.

A high tunnel, with door decoration by Garden Works youth.

Seattle Youth Garden Works created a wonderful mural on the end of this high tunnel hoop house. I was tempted to pull down the weeds in front of the mural, but then I saw birds flitting in and out, eating the seed heads. Best to let nature take its course.

A beautiful striped pumpkin is getting ripe in the patch.

Black plastic is laid between the rows of peppers and tomatoes, increasing the heat for these hot-season crops and reducing the need to weed.

A “compost fence” creates a wall for the UW Farm food processing area, and a chalkboard announces the current crops.