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A steamy wet week here but we powered through with a rain suit and outfit changes…  There is nothing like rain water, a good lightning storm or 2 and heat to make your garden grow.  Plants doubled in size and filled out at an almost unbelievable pace.

We transplanted out more baby cabbage, weeded through the brussels sprouts and still walk the cucumber lines daily to guide those vines up. A second loooooong planting of carrots went in the hoop house and the existing outside carrot patch thinned and weeded.  Believe it or not fall crops are being seeded into cells in the greenhouse.  We are chugging along and it feels great.

SUMMER SHARE #3

253 pounds of garden goodness went home with CSA members today.

FULL SHARE

garlic scapes, butterhead lettuce, leaf lettuce, asian greens mix, broccoli, broccoli side shoots, zucchini, fennel, snow peas, swiss chard, african kale

SNACK PACK

Garlic scapes, butterhead lettuce, leaf lettuce, asian greens mix, broccoli, fennel sugar snap peas and swiss chard

Garlic Scapes-A harvest we always look forward to!  Great garlic flavor.  Use as you would garlic cloves.

Cutting the garlic scapes on a hot morning.

Hauling the harvest from the field.

Cleaned garlic scapes ready to bundle for the shares.

The Garlic Scape bundling factory.

Butterhead Lettuce-A tricky lettuce to grow in heat and we did it.  Sweet juicy and perfect.  Enjoy!

Perfect butterhead lettuce….

Butter head lettuce soaking in the dunk tank.

Leaf Lettuce-This is the end of the leaf lettuce until cooler temperatures return.

Leaf Lettuce harvest at 5:30 a.m. before the heat of the day sets in.

Asian greens mix-A slightly spicy mix.  Enjoy fresh or saute.

Also an early morning harvest before the heat sets in for the day.  

Broccoli!!-We are thrilled with the harvest.  AND blown away that it is so early and abundant after the cold late Spring.

Broccoli Harvest.

Another Day of Broccoli harvest in a light rain.

Perfect early Broccoli-a small beaded variety called Blue Wind.

Broccoli Side Shoots-(Full Share ONLY)-The first time we grew this early variety.  Small heads and abundant side shoots and extra early.

Zucchini-(Full Share ONLY)-1st pick of the season and the patch is ready to go….

1st zucchini harvest of the season.

Fennel-A great harvest of this delicious treat- Shave bulb in fresh salads or use the wispy fronds in your fresh salads this week.  The bulbs are fantastic grilled or roasted.  The fronds make a fun pesto for pasta too.

Fennel ready to harvest.

Cut fennel ready to go to the washing station.

Snow Peas-(Full Share ONLY)-The 1st pick of the season and the plants are loaded.  Looks to be a great pea year for us this year.

Snow Peas for the Full Share.

Sugar Snap Peas-(Snack Pack Share ONLY)-1st pick here too and 4 long rows loaded.

Sugar Snap Peas ready for snack Pack shares.

Swiss Chard-A HUGE! Harvest right after the brief hail storm.  Slight Hail damage to leaves.

Swiss Chard Harvest in the rain.

Beautiful!

Even more beautiful!!

African Kale- (Full Share ONLY) A new crop we grew in the hoop house to see what we thought…delicious and a lighter flavor than “normal” kale.  We like it!  AND I forgot to take a picture…darn.

BEST GUESS FOR NEXT WEEK-PEA!!!! BONANZA FOR SURE…SNOW, SUGAR SNAP AND SHELLING, ROMAINE HEAD LETTUCE, BETA MIX (BABY SWISS CHARD AND BEET TOPS), ZUCCHINI, COLLARD GREENS, GARLIC SCAPES AND MORE…..