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2020 Raj Farm Update# 8 – Bountiful Harvest 👍

It’s harvest time at Raj Farm, folks, and it’s been bountiful harvest this year! 👏 This news must come as music to your ears as y’all have been waiting anxiously to hear this good news all year. It’s been cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, onion bunches, basil, strawberries and roses all the way! 👌 Yes, we have had to deal with rapacious rabbits but the hardy plants of Raj Farm have weathered the most ferocious attacks and still stand strong and tall 👏 We here at the farm shored up the defense of the most vulnerable plants by standing them up on smooth and sheer plastic face i.e. inverted buckets, to make it harder for the rabbits to get a grip on this situation. So far it appears to be working 👍
For more information let the picture speak to all patrons of this farm.

Always remember one thing:
At Raj Farm we don’t produce produce, we harvest love 🙏

2020 Raj Farm Update# 6 – Harvesting: Are we there yet?

Folks, much awaited update from Raj Farm! I know all the followers of the farm have been waiting with bated breath to devour the latest from the farm 😉 Rest assured we have been doing the same here, literally 😄 Today’s update is packed with superstars. In the next update we will cover in detail today’s rising stars shaping up to be tomorrow’s superstars! 👍
1) Superstar# 1 – Cucumber: Prolific and super fast growth. Gracing morning salads and vegetable sandwiches at the farm daily 👏
2) Superstar# 2 – Sweet Bell Pepper: Flavorful and tasty, farm thankful from the bottom of the belly 👌
3) Superstar# 3 – San Marzano Tomato: Breakout moment awaited when they change color for the better 👍
4) Superstar# 4 – Yellow Roses: They express themselves better than words can describe them 🥰
5) Superstar# 5 – Walla Walla Onion: Delights await below the soil. State of Washington put on notice! 👍
6) Superstar# 6 – White Lisbon Bunching Onion: Slender and tender, waiting to add flavor to farm cuisine 👍
7) Superstar# 7 – Pink Roses: Charming and pretty, nice and friendly 🥰

Summary: For the question in everyone’s mind, “Harvesting: Are we there yet?”, the answer is “We are pretty much there with some, getting there with the tomatoes, watermelon, strawberry, habanero and jalapeno peppers” 😊
Many thanks from Raj Farm to the patrons and loyal followers for their support of this produce and floral heaven 🙏

2020 Raj Farm Update# 4

Time for Raj Farm update! It’s been a period of hectic growth and lot of activity at Raj Farm. Let’s cover this week by each plant category
1) Cucumber: 2 set of seeds were planted this season (Top right picture). One set has grown large enough to warrant moving to own container, the other set can for now remain in the container and probably will grow faster without the shadow of bigger cucumber plant looming large
2) Jalapeno Pepper: Growing in same container as the cucumbers. Will have more room to grow when bigger cucumber moves out
3) Habanero Pepper: Growth acceleration seen after moving to own container
4) Roma Tomato: 2 set of seeds planted this season. Top right in separate pot and bottom left co-located in a bigger container with basil. Bottom left Roma tomato outgrowing container, will to be moved out
5) San Marzano Tomato: Bottom left picture. Growing in separate pot, first sign of tomato observed with yellow flowers making appearance. Outgrowing the container. Will be moved out
6) Sweet Bell Pepper: Growing in separate container (bottom left picture). Some buds seen
7) Basil: 2 set of seeds (bottom left picture). Co-located with Roma tomato in bigger container. Growing well, more space need will be met when Roma tomato co-tenant moves out
8) Roses: All growing in their own separate container/pot (bottom left an bottom right). Seeing them flower brings a smile always
9) Strawberry: Growing in separate small pot (bottom right). Newcomer to the farm. Showing signs of early promise
10) Onion: Onion seeds planted this week (top right corner of big container in top right picture). Right now only black patch visible as we allow onions to settle in
11) Watermelon: Waiting in the wings, not planted yet. They will soon be in action!

Next update will feature “The Great American Transplant” 🙂

2020 Raj Farm Update# 3

You thought we would have taken it easy last week? Nope, Raj Farm has been humming with activity 🙂 The growing needs of this season’s batch has been recognized along with the need to still maintain social distancing. Major activity at the farm the past week has been transplanting and moving the plants around. Leftmost top and bottom pictures are the plants in their dorm before the move. It was obvious the dorm was getting crowded and space was getting tight if the plants wanted to spread their wings and explore growth opportunities. Some of the plants, like the roses (middle 2 bottom pictures), wanted to move to new digs hoping to blossom on their own like their friend in bottom rightmost picture. Their wishes have become real. Hey, we are all about making budding dreams come true and letting those beauties flower even more feeling free to express their colorful personalities. Sweet bell pepper was feeling a bit of a misfit with the roses and expressed a desire to move to own place preferring solitude. That was accomplished too. The cucumber plants wanted a break in sharing space with the tomatoes and were hoping to share room with the pepper plants (jalapeno and habanero). Their desire has been fulfilled too and they appear to be liking the newer dorm with bigger room to grow (top rightmost picture)! Promises to be a busy summer here at Raj Farm. We wouldn’t want it any other way 🙂