An amazing week of big harvests in the garden, early morning to beat the heat and a very odd rhythm with the storms that popped up quickly-even in the sunshine! Over 3 inches total for the week here with no severe damaging weather and we are grateful. Somehow the days flew past with many outfit changes out of wet clothes. The tomato patch is amazing we pull over 400+ pounds out of there every other day. The tomatoes are beautiful but we see decline crawling in with this high humidity and heat and storms. Glad to say several weeks of harvesting to go. The potato harvest is fantastic and we believe it may be a “best ever” potato season for us. We will be eating a lot of potatoes! Hoop 2 was cleared of 3 great carrot rotations for future shares and we are preparing the space for Fall spinach.
The season are changing. And we grabbed 2 more pumpkins from the patch this week again just for fun.
Daily melon checks in both the watermelon and cantaloupe patches….next week these beauties will be in the shares…..
CSA #10
Head lettuce, leeks, red norland potatoes, zucchini, corn, cherry tomatoes, slice tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers.
Head Lettuce-A favorite here. Juicy mini heads. A variety called Newham.
Leeks-These are an early summer variety.
Potatoes-Red norland. These are a waxier variety and great fried or boiled. Delicious with the leeks pan fried or frittatas… They hold their shape well and do not break down. IF you want to make potato leek soup-hold those leeks until next week…..next week’s variety great for soup.
Zucchini-Patch 1 almost “retired”…#2 chugging along….daily harvests to keep them small and great texture. We add zucchini to EVERYTHING!. Maeve is the stirfry gal.
Corn!-More delicious sweet corn from Raupp Family Farm-Scott’s relatives grow amazing sweet corn and we are thankful they share the harvest with us. This corn is conventionally grown.
Cherry tomatoes-Several varieties and Maeve handles the washing and packaging all on her own. Great harvest this year. We have cherry tomatoes on the extra table too this week as the harvest was HUGE!
Slice tomatoes-A bounty! Such a great year.
Peppers-Baby bells for all shares….and sweet mini picnic peppers in Full share only. And tons of hot peppers on the extra table this week.
Cucumbers-this is the official end to the cucumbers. I picked what I could find and 2-3 in every share.
Cilantro-on the extra table. I planted flats of cilantro and will have it out with snippers for those that love it. Feel free to snip away….
BEST GUESS FOR NEXT WEEK-LETTUCE, PEPPERS, KALE, TOMATOES, CHERRY TOMATOES, MELONS!!!, ZUCCHINI, ONIONS AND MORE….
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