Another powerhouse week! This season is blowing us away with the abundance coming from the gardens. We are more blown away that we are on top of garden duties. So good. Slice tomatoes are hitting their stride. A good start to “tomato time” after a few ho hum seasons of the past. Cherry tomato vines have topped the trellis and dancing high above. It will soon be a jungle of colorful tomatoes. We have had perfect soaking rains and no severe weather damage. Fall crops are coming on strong our 3rd rotation of broccoli is heading up, another harvest of kohlrabi next week and we will pull storage onions next week too. We harvested a great bounty of spaghetti squash and it is curing in the shed for next week (and future) shares.
Spaghetti Squash harvest from the garden.
The last of the red norland potatoes have been harvested. A fantastic yield of perfect gems.
Last of the red norland crop.
We started in on the next variety as the vines are declining and did a test dig on all varieties in the ground. All looks great except a new variety to us this year that we wanted to trail. WELL, disappointment-very scabby skin BUT delicious flavor and texture. When we were picking them up after the potato digger went through Scott joked that he was picking up pine cones! HA!!! Still makes me chuckle. So these tasty ugly guys will be available in coming weeks on the “extra table”.
A heart find in the “scabby potato harvest”.
This may be the last week of cucumbers from our 1st planting. Our 2nd “Hail Mary” crop is chugging along and we hope to have cucumbers return in a few weeks. All depends on daylight. Fingers crossed.
Our 1st summer squash patch is just about done and the second rotation in full swing.
Summer Squash patch #2.
Final crops are all in now except radish and lettuce rotations which will continue on a weekly basis. We continue to seed in Fall and overwintered Spinach. Edge “shagginess” and beautification is on for next week as we are sensing an easing up of daily duties and “have to” tasks.
CSA SHARE #9
Full Share
Snack Pack
WHAT IS IN YOUR SHARE-romaine head lettuce, garlic, baby kale mix (full only), sweet summer onions, cippolini onions (full only), summer squash, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, slice tomatoes bell peppers, banana peppers (snack only), carrots!!!!, chinese cabbage, corn
Romaine head lettuce- Sweet and delicious heads. A late summer treat for sure.
Morning Romaine harvest from the hoop house.
Just cut and ready for the triple rinse.
Baby Kale Mix-(Full only) A nice big bag of assorted baby kale from the hoop house. Saute is best with fresh garlic.
Rinsed baby kale air drying before bagging.
Garlic-A good garlic season for us an nothing better than fresh garlic in veggie stir fry.
Scott cleaning the garlic before it goes in the shares.
Sweet Summer onions-A bounty harvest for us this season and we are passing them along.
Cleaned summer onions.
Cucumbers-Final harvest this week from our 1st rotation.
Cherry Tomatoes-The tomato patch has this feel of “well here we go!” The volume is amazing.
Cherry tomato harvest washed and ready to be packaged.
Slice Tomatoes-Choose up to 3 for Snack Pack and up to 6 for full share.
A HUGE! tomato harvest this week.
Bell Peppers-The last of the the bell pepper harvest and next week we start in on the Italian Fry Peppers.
Yellow Banana Peppers-(Snack Only)-A variety called goddess.
Carrots!-We had a great summer carrot harvest from our “carrot trough”. Crunchy and sweet. Enjoy!
After cutting the tops off we wash and chill for the shares.
Chinese Cabbage-A great harvest of the mini heads. A perfect slaw or adds great loft to salads.
Corn-Another morning pick from Scott’s relatives farm. Raupp Family Farm. We are grateful they provide the corn for our CSA. Delicious.
BEST GUESS FOR NEXT WEEK-kohlrabi, head lettuce, spaghetti squash, broccoli???, cherry tomatoes, slice tomatoes, green beans, onions, sunflower bouquets and more…..
We will be selling at the Baraboo Farmers’ Market again this Saturday. Produce, HUGE! Basil Plants, and pretty flower bouquets….
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