Monday August 10th Summer Share #11

August 10, 2015 by foxlinecityfarm

We liked this past week. The tomato harvest was bountiful, we had time to weed and tidy up and once again it seems like we planted a whole new garden. The strong transition to Autumn crops and organization is in full swing. Scott spent a a lot of time with our compost piles sifting and adding the fresh compost to prepared beds for replanting.

Scott sifting our 3 year old compost before it goes into the garden.

Adding compost to a new bed. Ready for Autumn turnips.

A new bed of turnips was planted where the leeks came out and a long row of Swiss Chard went in where the summer onions were pulled. Radishes went in and again more carrots. Late Fall seeds were started in the greenhouse for transplanting in a few weeks.

Fall plantings germinatiing in the greenhouse.

The new zucchini patch went in where the garlic use to live and we should be mibbling on summer squash from this patch in a few weeks.

New Zucchini patch.

We peeked in on the watermelon and cantalope and feel we are still 2 weeks out on this harvest so we check and wait.

A very special treat this week. Our wonderful neighbors Dick and Caryl Pfaff gifted us delicious plums. Dick was given the tree as a Father’s Day gift from his daughter 7 years ago and this is the first year it has produced. The tree was loaded with fruit and so beautiful.

Dick Pfaff with his plum tree.

Look at those plums!

We had a great time picking the plums and enough to make jam, can and fruit leather.

Harvesting the last of the plums at the top of the tree.

WOW! What a harvest! Thank You Dick and Caryl…..

SUMMER SHARE #11

Please remember to return all share bags and reusable packaging material.

Another great harvest and a few treats tucked in….enjoy all of it. 980 pounds of garden goodness. WOW!

SNACK PACK

Lettuce-A great head of romaine this week. Deep green crunchy and delicious. The variety is called Sparx.

This week’s lettuce at harvest.

Potatoes-Beautiful Carola. Mash, smash, fry, roast or steam.

Carolas drying before we package.

A heart shaped surpise tucked into someone’s share this week.

Sweet Summer Onions-Store in the crisper drawer of the refrigerator. These are not storage onions.

Cutting Celery-Amazing flavor! Add leaves to salads, or use leaves and stalks to flavor soups, sauces or stir fry. This is what celery is suppose to taste like.

Kohlrabi-Peel outer skin and eat raw with salads or with dips.

Sweet Yellow Pepper-A delicious sweet beauty.

Peppers in the garden.

Corn-Conventional corn grown for us by Scott’s Uncle.

Basil Plant-A wonderful Thai basil plant! Great flavor.

Thai Basil ready for this week’s share.

Cherry Tomatoes-A 1/2 pint mix of these little gems.

Sungold on the vine.

Slice Tomatoes-Choice of Heirlooms.

Plums!-A special treat! Leave on the counter a few days to ripen.

Maeve picking plums.

Eggplant-BARABOO SNACK PACK ONLY THIS WEEK.

Bringing up some eggplant.

Raspberry-ERDMAN SNACK PACK ONLY THIS WEEK. THIS IS THE END OF THE RASPBERRY ROTATION.

FULL SHARE

Lettuce-A great head of romaine this week. Deep green crunchy and delicious. The variety is called Sparx.

Harvesting lettuce in the hoop house.

Potatoes-Beautiful Carola. Mash, smash, fry, roast or steam.

Scott portioning out the potatoes.

Sweet Summer Onions-Store in the crisper drawer of the refrigerator. These are not storage onions.

Cutting Celery-Amazing flavor! Add leaves to salads, or use leaves and stalks to flavor soups, sauces or stir fry. This is what celery is suppose to taste like.

Peppers-Sweet bell and long yellow bananna.