September 25 2014

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September 25, 2014

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Kiwi berry is a species within the Actinidia family and is as such a small variety of the well known larger kiwifruit. It grows wild in parts of China and is also found in north-eastern Siberia, Korea and Japan. It is a natural berry (about the size of a grape) with a smooth hairless edible skin. naturespride.eu

P ro du ce & Sourc es Apples Bartlett Pears Cantaloupe Grapes Kiwi Berries Plums Pomegranate  Beets Cilantro Dill Eggplant Kale Lettuce Onions Peppers Potatoes Spinach Tomatoes Turnips

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Farmer John Kruger Circle Brook Farm, Andover, NJ

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Hi Folks, Still no rain here on the farm; and none in the forecast for a t least another week! It looks like we’ll be spending a lot of time moving the sprinklers around. It’s fortunate that we have a lot of crops planted on plastic mulched beds with drip irrigation. With drip irrigation we can keep a lot more crops growing with less water. Lettuce is a good example. Crops for early fall are planted on white plastic to keep the soil cool and later plantings are put on black plastic to maintain soil warmth as we head into late fall. We are back into lettuce production this week and will have it now for the rest of the season. There are still not as many other greens as I would like to see. I hope this will change as we get farther into the fall. We are waiting on a final planting of summer squash to begin to yield. I expect by next week we should have enough. We have a tremendous crop of butternut squash. We also have a beet crop coming on, but they are a bit small and a bit crowded in the rows. We need to thin them so they can continue to enlarge. We also have a lot of nice salad turnips as well as a red skinned turnip. Enjoy!

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