Finish tomatoes before touching anything else

Ghost House comes back again with another record week. 327 pounds of slicers harvested in a single week! That’s more than 1/2  lbs/sq.ft. Their last record was 227 lbs. A massive difference.

Congrats, friends!

What to prioritize when there is too much to do

Right now, Ghost House is seeing uneven fruit set in their tomatoes.

July is chaos for every grower. It’s easy to skip tasks when we’re buried in work. In their case, they overlooked the pollination a bit. In ours, it was pruning..

Though it is hard to prioritize when, ultimately, everything should be done, I wanted to tell you a simple rule I shared with my crew that helps prioritize tasks.

Here what I told them:

“We don’t touch another crop until tomato work is done. No planting, no weeding, no spraying. Tomatoes first. (Okay, except for harvesting. We still have to harvest.)”

Why?

A single bed of tomatoes can bring in $10,000 to $15,000. That’s the same as 20 to 30 beds of beets or peas.

And don’t forget: 30% of the season’s yield comes in the fall. That’s $5,000 per bed still on the line! And the work to secure fall harvest starts now.

It is mandatory to remember that, if we miss the window, we can’t catch up later

July’ non-negotiables:

• Pollination: skip it, and you won't have enough fruits set.
• Pruning: skip it, and plants waste energy on leaves.
• Keeping plants healthy: skip detection, treatment, or removing sick tissue, and you'll lose the fall harvest.

When the farm gets busy, tomatoes come first. Sacrificing other crops is tough, but a low tomato harvest can hit your wallet harder than being late with broccoli.

Ghost House just hit a new harvest record. Now the goal is to keep the pace and finish strong. We’ll be following along and sharing the next steps.

Don’t give up, you’re doing great! I'm Looking forward to see your next week's harvest!

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