We’re good. Another heavy week of weeding and managing the crops. The garden has loved the rain and steamy temperatures. Many crops seem to double in size. The bean plants are flowering and we see little threads of beans forming. Several rotations are in the garden now and 1 more will go in. A steady supply of beans all season long and bulk canning boxes will be available for purchase if interested. Cucumber and tomato plants are loaded and the cauliflower is heading up. We laugh as Scott always says we are finally heading into “real food”. This is the point in the season where we often rise with the sun to beat the heat and harvest early in the cooler morning temperatures and then guiltily take a quick nap in the heat of the day and return out at dinner time until dark. It is a schedule that works for us. I lost the battle with the “carrot pillow” weeding. 7 hours and Scott helping for an additional 4 with little progress…. to me it was not worth the huge amount of time with perhaps low yield. I asked Scott to till it in. 3 other carrot rotations are in now and another HUGE one going in this week of the larger Fall/Winter storage carrots so we are not concerned just really disappointed that this area got away from us. The raspberry patch looks great and this will be a treat to look forward to in the near future. We are hoping to start are early potato harvest next week. The test plants we dug (and ate) were delicious and abundant. AND! the tomatoes are ripening! REALLY! Soon cherries in the shares and the others not too far behind. We get pretty excited about tomato season around here as we plant many different heirloom varieties.
First tomato of the season!
Sungold on the vine.
Cherry tomato plants loaded with blossoms.
We are going to experiment. We ran out of space early season to plant popcorn. Something I hope we can get in every year and never do. A cool heirloom variety called Bear Paw. Well, space freed up this week and we pondered if we should try it or not. We are on the cusp of having enough time before frost. 70 days to maturity. After supper one night we went to the greenhouse and seeded in almost 1000 little cups each with a kernel of corn. We hope for better germination with me keeping an eye on it and also not worrying about weed pressure early on. Wish us luck as we are cutting it close!
Prepping popcorn pots.
WHAT IS IN YOUR SHARE
314 pounds of produce this week. WOW! A great week! Enjoy……
Scott with all the produce in the cooler washed, weighed and ready to be portioned out.
SNACK PACK
Lettuce-Nice big bag of juicy assorted leaf lettuce.
Salad Turnips-A favorite in our house. SWEET! and tender. Maeve eats them like apples. A wonderful addition to salad, greens can be braised too.
1 of the turnip patches before harvest.
Peas- The end of the season.
Snow Peas- The flat skinny guys. Eat pod and all.
Sugar Snap Peas-Pull the string and eat pod and all.
Chinese Cabbage-Fluffy heads that hold forever in the refrigerator in air tight storage. Eat fresh or stir fry.
Garlic Scapes-The top of the garlic plants. Taste just like garlic.
Garlic scapes in the plant.
Kohlrabi-A few for everyone. Crunchy and sweet.
Strawberries-REMAINING BARABOO SNACK PACK MEMBERS ONLY.
FULL SHARE
Spinach-The end of the summer season of this fantastic crop. We noticed it was thinking about bolting and expected it to happen the week. We harvested 11 pounds and pulled the plants.
Salad Turnips-A favorite in our house. SWEET! and tender. Maeve eats them like apples. A wonderful addition to salad, greens can be braised too.
Peas- The end of the season.
Snow Peas- The flat skinny guys. Eat pod and all.
Sugar Snap Peas-Pull the string and eat pod and all.
Shelling Peas-Shell and eat peas ONLY.
Chinese Cabbage-Fluffy heads that hold forever in the refrigerator in air tight storage. Eat fresh or stir fry.
Beautiful Beets!-A big goal of ours this year is to grow primo beets. A struggle in the past for some reason. We are on our way. Several crops in the garden. Enjoy greens too.
BEETS!
Fennel-Perfect! and right on time for a beet fennel salad. Also wonderful with apples, a potato gratin, or grilled.
Fennel in the garden ready to harvest.
Eggplant OR summer squash-An early start to both of these wonders…..either will appear in full share boxes only.
Eggplant in the field.
Summer Squash plants loaded!
Garlic Scapes-The top of the garlic plants. Taste just like garlic.
Sour Cherries-Surprise!!!! We cut each and every one of these little beauties off the neighbor’s unsprayed tree with a snippers. 2+cups each. Enough for a batch of scones, muffins, or a small crisp.
Cherries on the tree.
The harvest.
BEST GUESS FOR NEXT WEEK-baby kale, cabbage, potatoes!!!!, zucchini, cauliflower?, sweet thai basil, + more……..
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