Did everyone eat all their veggies? I know at least a few of you did because I saw you at the stand on Saturday. We hope you enjoyed the produce you received last week.
Two years ago we started growing early cucumbers in a unheated greenhouse and we were hooked on the process immediately.
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It is a little time consuming to trellis and prune them but we have found a very early variety that we really like as well as a longer, thin skinned Asian cucumber that does well trellised. We use orange bailing twine, some nifty clips we found online and black ground cloth to control weeds. This year, we ate our first cucumber in the middle of May. For those of you who aren't familiar with growing cucumbers in the Pacific Northwest, we are happy when we are harvesting field cucumbers before July. Perhaps we are motivated because we don't buy things like cucumbers in the store, or because it gives us a longer season to sell cucumbers but mostly we just find it fun. We didn't include cucumbers in your box this week because there is so much good stuff more typical of this time of year coming out of the fields. You can look forward to them next week.
Carrots
Snap Peas
Rainbow Chard
Head Lettuce
Bok Choy - I included a recipe below for bok choy but you can include it in many things - fried rice, chicken soup or you can chop it up and use it in salads.
Dill - We were at Wobbly Cart Farm for a pot luck last night and our friend Teva made a yummy dish using orzo, roasted carrots and dill. I don't often eat cooked carrots but I really enjoyed it. I think it would be great with beets added (if you don't mind hot pink orzo) or you could just roast carrots and beets together and toss with a bit of dill right before serving - no orzo needed.
Beets
Scallions
Broccoli
See you soon.
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