Week 11

When I was ordering seeds last winter I was thinking of you all.  For the past few years we have given you the same varieties of winter squash each year.  We grow a few other varieties but the farm share always gets our favorites and the ones that seem the most popular.  In an effort to make things a bit more interesting for you and me I went looking for a new winter squash for this year.  We planted two new varieties that are growing next to the sun jewel melons and the whole place is a mess of foliage that I have resisted looking in because I would have move some vines around to try to find a place to step.  On Friday when we harvested some melons for the stand my curiosity got the best of me.  The first one is called sweet fall and it is described as a 4 pound squash.  Well,  I can't seem to find one that looks smaller than 12 pounds!  The other squash is suppose to do well in short season climates (we have a long growing period due to the temperate climate but the lack of heat still means all heat loving crops need to be short season varieties) but I could only find lots of really small immature squash.  Darn it.  Looks like we might be sticking with the old favorites again this year.

I know it probably seems a bit early to be talking of fall but as we pull the onions out to dry down and watch the squash leaves start to yellow a little bit it is hard not to think about it.   Even your boxes have a touch of fall in them.  Our first round of fall cabbages and broccoli are beginning to mature and they look great.  Summer isn't usually a time of year people think of as good broccoli growing weather but we always get some of our nicest crops this time of year.  There is plenty of summer in your boxes today as well and we have more of it to come next week.

Lettuce
Carrots
Cherry Tomatoes
Slicing Tomatoes
Cabbage
Broccoli
Yellow or Orange Bell Pepper - Large Only
Cilantro - Large Only
Swiss Chard - Large Only