At the Farm is located on Highway 5 in Carver County, Minnesota - 2.5 m. East of Waconia - 4.5 m. West of Victoria - 10 m. West of Chanhassen
Donna Frantz, Proprietor - 8880 East Highway 5, Waconia MN 55387 - imthefarmer@earthlink.net - 952-442-4816

At the Farm Newsletter

Sent October 8, 2008 Deck your house with our Fall colors! Fa la la la la la la la la! Shopping local will save gas dollars! Fa la la la la la la la la! Pumpkins, squash and mums and gourds! Fa la la la la la la la la! Broom Corn, Mini Corn, and Indian Corn! Fa la la la la la la la la! (Sing to the tune of 'Deck the Halls") At the Farm has Fall color! PUMPKINS Jack-o'-lantern Wee-be-little Pie Pumpkins Poke-ke-mon Mini Orange Lumina (white) Cinderella Long Island Cheese Jarrahdale One Too Many (marbled) Red Warty GOURDS - winged and warted MUMS - Rust, Red, Purple, Yellow Hello, I'm still picking organic . . . Beets, Carrots Onions - yellow, red, cippolini Organic Yellow Popcorn Fill your Willow Basket with . . . MINNESOTA Sweet Corn Potatoes - red, yellow, russets, baby red Winter Squash - acorn, butternut, buttercup, amber, carnival, sweet dumpling, delicata, spaghetti, hubbard Minnesota grown apples from Timberlake Orchard - Eric Luetgers, grower Honeycrisp, Zestar, Regent, Haralson, Cortland, McIntosh Enjoy the Harvest! Donna

Its Garden Clean up Time! Spade over gardens and flower beds. The soil will break up better when frozen and the texture of it will work up better in the spring next year. Dump all soil from flower and vegetable pots and containers. Start with FRESH soil in the spring. If you save plants over winter, cut them back. Do not over water during winter. Winter is not a natural time for the plants to grow. sometimes just to keep them alive is a great success. Cover perennials with hay after plants die back. Do not use straw for winter cover. I have bales of covering hay for sale. Spring bulbs can be planted now. A little bone meal is good for them. Put bone meal in the bottom of the hole, put a little soil on top of the bone meal, plant the bulb and cover with soil. Hints for storing your harvest! If your onion tops bent over in that awful wind in July, the onions might not keep in storage. The onions had probably not fully matured as the tops did not dry naturally. Keep onions as cool and dry as you can. Before they freeze, pick green tomatoes and wrap in paper towels. They will ripen but the flavor is not like the tomatoes ripened on the vine in the summer. Winter squash is an excellent keeper and should keep to Christmas.