Week 10

Looking around the garden I can see the decline beginning to happen.  Each week there is a little less green as we till in crops that we have finished picking.  I love watching the season unfold.

I ordered seed garlic last week and hopefully next year's garlic will be a success.  I wasn't able to get our favorite variety but am looking forward to trying a couple new ones.  At 20 bucks a pound it would have been cheaper to try to find some local seed from friends but everyone I talked to had some disease issues in their garlic this year and I wanted to take as few chances as possible even if it means it will take a few years of saving seed before we are up to the 300 pounds we planted last fall.  We will be more careful about culling plants that don't look good and about what garlic we save for planting.

 Last week some of you had a Sun Jewel Melon in your box and the remainder of you will receive one over the next couple weeks.  It is a Korean melon with a crisp flesh.  I just learned that some people eat the seeds.  They are the sweetest part of the melon.

 You received our first picking of corn last week and may receive the last picking off the planting today.  It is tough to say just how much is out there and I am not sure if you will have it in your boxes today.  We have two more plantings behind the current one so you will receive more corn at some point regardless of whether you have some in your box today.

Carrots
Cherry Tomatoes
Slicing Tomato
Summer Squash
Walla Walla Onions
Basil
Asian Cucumber - Large Only
Lemon Cucumber - Small Only
Wax Bean/Green Bean
Corn - Maybe
Sun Jewel Melon - Rotating Item 
Lettuce - Large Only