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All I can say is tomatoes!!!!….best tomato season ever for us. We harvest 400+ pounds 1 day and over 600+ 2 days later. How does that even happen! And will pick again tonight….a bit overwhelming and fun all rolled together. We are out of space and we are busy making our own sauce to enjoy during the winter months.

When we were not harvesting tomatoes we transplanted spinach into hoop 2 for Autumn harvest.

Scott seeded in long rows of Fall radishes in hoop 2 and we irrigated like crazy even after all that rain. The next rotation of beans is flowering and the edamame is just about ready.

We had a weather casualty. All that Fall broccoli we planted was just heading up when the heat and rain hit and those perfect little heads baked in the hot wet sun. We walked down the rows and cut the heads with hopes we get some jumbo side shoots. We have a late season broccoli crop out there too so hopefully we will all eat a bit more broccoli at the finish of the season.

The spaghetti squash is harvested and curing in the greenhouse and we had a great watermelon harvest this week.

CSA #11

Head Lettuce, Kale, Superior Potatoes, Italian Fry Peppers, Lunchbox peppers (snack only), Cherry tomatoes, Slice Tomatoes, Sweet Summer Onions, Zucchini, Watermelon, Cantaloupe (snack only)

Head Lettuce-A pretty bicolored mini oakleaf. Sweet flavor

Kale-We harvested the smaller tender leaves. This year we only grew Lacinato varieties as we think they taste best!

Potatoes-Superior is the variety….fluffy and delicious. I think we might be having the best potato year too….there is something to say for sure for 100% weed free and perfect growing conditions.

Italian Fry Peppers-We had to go down the rows and pick some green ones to thin them out. The plants are loaded-the peppers are crowding each other out and also tipping the plants over with weight.

Lunchbox peppers-snack only-delicious sweet peppers and so pretty too.

Cherry tomatoes…..The bounty continues.

Slice tomatoes-Great selection this week….4 again for Snack and 6 again for Full.

Sweet Onions-This is the end of the sweet onion harvest. We will move on to storage onions next.

Zucchini-Happy to say patches are slowing down.

Watermelon-2 or 3 in all Full Shares 1 in Snack Pack. Enjoy!

Cantaloupe-snack only-Sweet cantaloupe has returned to the CSA. More for Full Share next week…

BEST GUESS FOR NEXT WEEK-HEAD LETTUCE, CORN, CARROTS, EDAMAME, TOMATOES, PEPPERS CANTALOUPE AND MORE….