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Well, we just keep rolling….a fantastic Spring for us in the gardens and we did a fast hustle the week break between last Spring Share and 1st Summer Share.  650 pounds of seed potatoes went in….1800 leeks-triple that number for onions, 350 pepper plants, 100 eggplant and seeded in the hoop houses with carrots and leafy greens.  The cutting celery and parsley went in as an “end of day job” and we put a long row of tomatillos in just for fun.

Onion planting….2 per hole forever……

A second wave of broccoli and cabbage was seeded in and Maeve helped upgrade all the basil to larger containers.   Scott got the tomato trellis up and tomato planting will be our last big job.

Tomato trellis going up.

Our tomato plants hanging out until the go in the garden.

We are loving the new hoop house!  Early carrots and beets seeded in and the spinach is the best we have ever grown.  We are looking forward to a happy STRONG summer with bountiful, delicious produce.

SUMMER SHARE #1

Full Share

Snack Pack

WHAT IS IN YOUR SHARE-Spinach, head lettuce, beta mix (beet/swiss chard greens), pac choi, tokyo bekana, turnips, and kohlrabi

Spinach-delicious thick walled sweet spinach from our new hoop house.  We are thrilled.  Nice big bags for the Snack pack share and even more for Full.  We love it wilted as a side with dinner and make tons of spinach balls and patties.  Enjoy!

Morning Spinach harvest.

Juicy sweet spinach leaves….

Head lettuce-Amazing lettuce harvest this week.  Encino is the variety in all shares-Spring and Full. AND Full shares have an additional butter head.

This week’s lettuce harvest.

Headed to the dunk tanks for a triple rinse.

 Full Share Butterheads air drying.

Beta mix-A favorite!  Great flavor chopped and added to salads raw-the skinny stems are delicious.  Or slightly wilt/steam.  Amazing.

Beta mix at harvest.

And rinsing in the dunk tank.

Pac Choi-Hoop 1 was loaded with assorted pac choi for 1st share.  We eat it raw as a snack and love it added to broth.  Full share also received a bag of cut mini itty bitty pac choi too…

Green choi getting a chilling rinse.

Tokyo Bekana-Full Share only-Adds loft to fresh salads.  Tastes like a fluffy chinese cabbage.

Morning Tokyo Bekana harvest.

Turnips!-1st turnips from the new hoop house.  A great harvest and a favorite Spring crop.

Spring Turnips!

Kohlrabi-Surprise!  We were hopeful we could pull this off for the 1st share.  Enjoy.  Raw with a little salt-nothing better.

Look at those little gems!

BEST GUESS FOR NEXT WEEK-HEAD LETTUCE, RADISHES, FENNEL, BASIL PLANT, PEA SHOOTS, SPINACH AND………FINGERS CROSSED-CARROTS!