CSA Share #12 August 29th

August 29, 2019 by foxlinecityfarm

Transitioning to Autumn in the garden is always fun. Daily routines ease a bit and the pressure to get the final plantings in the ground is over. Scott was able to tend to a bit of our shagginess angst around the edges and we sure feel better about that. A huge carrot crop came out of the hoop house this week and we quickly prepped the soil and transplanted early Fall spinach. This carrot crop we are holding for later shares.

Ready to harvest the carrot crop.

Maeve did the official taste test and we were ready to roll.

Carrots after we cut the tops off before washing.

600 spinach starts all settled in.

Final lettuce rotations were seeded into cells in the greenhouse. Peppers are in full swing and so pretty-always fun to harvest the colorful beauty.

Love the color.

more color…

and more…

Slice Tomatoes are nearing the end but the cherry tomatoes are chugging along….

We will start with garden clean up this week-summer squash is ready to be pulled out along with the cucumber vines, spaghetti squash and watermelon. And a surprise…another hoop house is going up!

CSA SUMMER SHARE #12

Full Share.

Snack Pack.

WHAT IS IN YOUR SHARE.

beets!, dark romaine lettuce, kohlrabi, backyard honey!!!, cherry tomatoes, slice tomatoes, mini green bells, Italian Fry Peppers, Mini Chinese cabbage, green beans (full only)

Beets-Finally! We stink at growing beets. No sure why….we try but they take forever and tend to not size up. So we are thrilled with this harvest and hopefully another harvest to come…

Beets at harvest.

Beets washed and air drying before we weigh out for shares.

Dark romaine head lettuce-Mini romaine heads. Beautiful dark color.

hoop house dark romaine at harvest.

Kohlrabi-Nice big crunchy heads. A garden favorite.

Kohlrabi at harvest.

All perfect.

Backyard Honey-Sweet and a bit of citrus taste to it too. This is early season honey. Lighter in color. We were so happy to have a great yield after a few ho hum years.