A much needed soaking rain last night and this morning. Just under an inch. We have been running irrigation day and night in the gardens the past week to keep up with the high heat and wind. The plants are loving this weather-we are wilting a bit but chugging on. Our days start extra early and a break mid day and then back out until dark. A good routine to try and stay out of the worst of the heat. Beans, cucumbers and summer squash have to be picked daily. We transplanted out more broccoli and chinese cabbage and seeded in lettuce rotations and started Fall Spinach. Beets were thinned and the carrots too. We are staying on top of things so far. The key to it all is just let the garden carry you and float through the day of work. We are happy and just thrilled with the gardens this year. Potato digging next week and giant sweet summer onions will come out of the ground. Baby watermelon are forming and the cherry tomatoes are really starting to color up.
SUMMER SHARE #6
What is in your share. 418 pound of amazing produce going home with members this week. A bounty.
Full
Snack
head lettuce, pointy mini cabbage, green beans, cucumber mix, english slicing cucumber, summer squash mix, pink celery, garlic, mini kale mix, pac choi and pepper (full only)
Head lettuce-A fantastic lettuce harvest this week in the early morning light. Tricky to grow flavorful lettuce in high heat. We did it and it is a great summer crisp.
This week’s lettuce harvest chilling in the dunk tank.
Pointy cabbage-We love growing mini heads. Perfect size for the CSA. Maeve helped with the harvest and we blasted through the job.
Morning cabbage harvest.
Green beans-We picked every day! Over night they would double in size. We were amazed but zipped down the rows.
Scott weighing out the beans.
Cucumber mix-An assortment of the varieties we grew in every share-including the favorite salt and pepper.
Salt and pepper cucumbers at harvest.
European slice cucumber-1st big pick. 1 for everyone.
Mix Summer Squash-A bounty harvest this week. EVERY morning we made the rounds and 40+ were cut. AND our second patch is starting to produce too!
Summer Squash ready to pack in shares.
PINK Celery-We wanted to try this just for fun. It is beautiful and the flavor strong. Great in cucumber dishes, soups and added to salads.
Pink Celery at harvest.
Triple rinse before bundling.
Garlic-Just dug fresh garlic! A treat.
Garlic sorting.
Mini Kale Mix- Snipped from the hoop house. makes a great salad or saute side.
Triple rinsed and ready to be packaged off for the shares.
Pac choi-I am on a huge pac choi kick. I LOVE it. Raw my favorite in fresh salads for a juicy crunch but saute with garlic or scapes and it is a treat.
Mini green pac choi at harvest.
Mini Green Summer Pac choi.
Peppers-(Full only) just picked this morning. A bit of a surprise. A sweet pepper.
Picked in the rain this morning.
BEST GUESS FOR NEXT WEEK-Potatoes!, onions, parsley, cucumbers, dill, summer squash purple beans and more….
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