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Monday November 10th 1st Winter Storage Share

Posted in Garden Update, Weekly Boxes on November 10, 2014| 1 Comment »

The main garden is put to bed.

Tomato, melon and leek patch all cleaned up.

Hoop House in the morning. Still chugging along.

It is a whole new world around here. The final crops are being pulled from the garden and hoop house and we LOVE! the fact that we are eating wonderful greens harvested in November! Delicious. We have been very busy with autumn clean up and getting the last of the crops out and final winter over crops in. It is a lot of work and time to pull down all the tomato vines and clean up the space. The trellis all need to be removed and stored, plastic mulch removed and irrigation pulled before the soil is tilled and prepped for Spring. And then we repeat the process with the cucumber area and then focus on other areas of the garden with tidy, tidy, tidy. Having things all set before the snow flies and ground turns solid makes life so much easier in the Spring. We are in great shape with a few tiny “want to” duties to tackle but the BIG “have to” duties have been checked off the list. We are grateful the weather has been comfortable and mild for finishing up the season.

Winter over spinach well established out in the garden all set for Spring.

Garlic Beds.

We spent a long day planting 2400+ cloves of garlic by hand! Scott had the leaf mulch on by dark and we were happy the job was complete in one day. Our favorites-Music and German Red were planted. The garlic harvest this year was abundant and strong and we were able to save and replant our own supply. A first for us not having to buy in organic seed garlic.

We are already catching ourselves planning out next year. Fun to do and dream about next year’s garden…..Seed catalogs will arrive and our potato order will go in soon. We are already excited about 2015 season.

With the garden clean up well under control, tools properly stored away, and the greenhouse and hoop house ready for winter we felt there was time to work on another favorite job again. We are even taking orders this year for Thanksgiving Bouquets.

Jennifer working on floral pieces for a special event.

WHAT IS IN YOUR SHARE

We have had a fantastic finish to the season and thrilled to share the bounty with all of you. An amazing pick up this week with lots of wonderful surprises. A BIG! box and a Foxline tote of goodies for everyone to take home for Thanksgiving cooking. 33 pounds!!! WOW! Enjoy.

Get ready for the long DELICIOUS list………

Arugula-A snappy bunch for fresh eating or braising.

Mazuna Mix-Lime green and purple-A mild mustard flavored green. Delicious fresh or braised.

Lettuce!-REALLY Lettuce….Juicy heads of romaine.

Spinach-A huge HUGE! bag of delicious green leaves and another bag of the beautiful Red Kitten.

Scott harvesting Red Kitten Spinach.

Jennifer harvesting the big juicy Space Spinach.

Scott double rinsing the spinach.

Pac Choi-A mix of 2 varieties. Win Win and White Flash.

Mini Pac Choi- A bag of tiny pac choi.

Radish- Nice big bag of the mild French Breakfast.

Maeve said they look like peppermints or candy canes.

Kale-A mixed bunch of young kale leaves.

Brussels Sprouts-FINALLY! They are smaller this year but they are here. We were worried there for awhile that there was going to be nothing. Enjoy the bounty!