Week 11

We pulled all the onions we were able to last week before the rains came.  The ones that got left in the field will be out by tomorrow.  It will feel great to have them all out.  We were having some fungal issues (downy mildew) and the rain wasn't helpful in that regard but everything else in the garden loved it as did Kelly who had a break from worrying about water.  Once the onions are out we will start to think about potatoes and winter squash.  Normally we pull squash out of the field right around the time we finish cleaning and bagging onions but the squash looks to be a bit ahead of schedule this year.  Also ahead of schedule this year are melons.  We had every intention of trying to get home at a reasonable hour on Friday.  We left melon harvest for the last chore of the day.  I pulled up to the field with a knife for sampling and three crates.  We started cutting and eating melons and I quickly realized that we needed way more than the three crates I had grabbed.  We piled the truck high with Korean melons, piel de sapo melons, three kinds of watermelon and galia melons.  In the garden, there are few things more joyful than standing in the field tasting melon after melon.  It feels like summer and this year it actually happened during summer!  Typically we harvest watermelons September.

We love our field tasting of melon, covered in juice with sticky fingers and cheeks and we hope you enjoy your melon even if you choose to eat it in a more civilized fashion!

Happy summer, it is fading fast.

Carrots
Lettuce
Bell Pepper - green or purple
Melon - most likely watermelon
Cucumber
Potatoes - purple skin and flesh or red skin and pink flesh
Slicing Tomato
Corn
Eggplant - Small Only, some this week and some next week
Kale - Large Only
Broccoli - Large Only