Thanks! Incredibly busy this time of year. Production has been really good. Picking 1200-1400lbs of tomatoes each week from just under 1000 plants. 200-300 English cukes still coming off the plants each week even with them being so old. I had thought about doing some interplanting on them but they have roared back to life with all the hot weather we are having. Amazingly, even with the really high temps, I am not having any loss of fruit or production. Battling some stink bugs and found a few really strange looking larvae that were eating some tomatoes this week. I have no idea what they were but they are dead and I have not seen any more of them. The damn stink bugs even though only a few of them here and there are really aggravating since they have not developed a predatory insect for them yet. Other than that this has been one of the best years I have had controlling other insects. I went with a new cucumeris product and placed a lot more of smaller bags at more frequent applications(and much lower cost!) and have not seen any thrip issues at all this year. Seeing lots of aphids outside but none have made it inside. Only about 8-9 weeks left before this crop will be pulled and the cleaning will commence.
I have been approached by an I-502 tier 2 license holder and asked to be the lead grower for their project so that might take precedence over the tomatoes for a while. They are just waiting for their financing to come through on a building they are buying. If they get the building, it's going to get rather crazy in the next few weeks as they want to start the build out immediately. I would love to take on the project though so it's pretty exciting.
