trellis time

I can’t believe it’s June!

After a manic few weeks, I have all the first rotations in the ground, both at the bakehouse and the glassworks. Harvesting has yet to kick into full gear, and there’s a little bit of quiet before the storm, to bake cookies, weed the beets, clean up the greenhouse, stay out at the bar later than I should.

Or, of course, trellis the tomatoes.

It’s time. Unfortunately, the tomato haus has no purlins. A purlin is a pipe that runs down the length of the greenhouse, parallel to the ridgeline. After this spring’s construction marathon, I had no interest in running around town buying pipe and connectors and u-bolts and making a professional expensive purlin. So I took some leftover fencing wire and a big handful of zip ties and made do instead. So far, so good.