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Seattle's numbers of hours at or above 70 F through May 29th over the past few years:

2015: 77
2016: 144
2017: 85
2018: 107
2019: 103
2020: 85
2021: 80

and, (drum roll), 2022: 5#wawx

— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) May 30, 2022

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Incorporate amendments and create a smooth seedbed with a Tilther.

Sow salad turnip and radish seeds with a Jang seeder.

No, not certified insane. Certified by the Real Organic Project.

Although High & Dry Farm has been certified organic for several years now, we, like many farmers, have been disturbed that the USDA allows organic certification of farming practices such as hydroponic farming, and raising livestock on barren lots deceptively designated as “pasture”. Certification by the Real Organic Project means that farming practices conform to what any reasonable person would identify as organic, i.e, crops grown in soil, without use of artificial chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, and livestock raised under humane conditions including access to real pasture. So there is organic, and there is real organic. We are both.

80 tomato varieties, 800 plants, are thriving and will soon need to be potted up in gallon containers for sales.

The last few days I have been busy sowing my ~120 different tomato varieties, as well as eggplant and tomatillo.  The very first tomato variety to germinate was Amy’s Apricot.

Our great weather this summer yielded a beautiful crop of about 20 lbs of Thompson Seedless grapes, from which I produced 3 lbs of raisins.