Week 2

A couple of you came by the stand this weekend and bought some potatoes from an early experimental planting.  It was a small planting and we sold the last of them on Saturday.  I expected a gap between them and our main planting of potatoes but it looks like you should have some potatoes in your boxes in a couple weeks.  Kelly hilled them for the third and maybe the final time today.  The plants are starting to flower.  I dug around under one of the early varieties and pulled out a couple small potatoes.  I knew they wouldn't be big enough to justify harvesting them but I couldn't resist checking.  This year the potatoes are at our South Bay Road fields at Thunder Mountain Farm.  We are very unoriginal when it comes to names.  For example with our chickens we have a Golden Laced Wyndotte named Goldie, a Buff Orpington named Buffy and a Welsummer named Welsie.  We used similar naming methods on our tractors.  The Farmall 100 we use to hill the potatoes is called The Hundy.  The Hundy is a great tractor and up until this year we used it for other stuff as well.  This year we have been able to leave the hilling disks and shoes on it so it is ready to go with some minor adjustments whenever we want to hill the potatoes.

Kelly checking to see if there are any adjustments to be made

Shoes in the back and disks on the belly - both help push soil towards the row

The current planting of broccoli is also at South Bay.  It looks and tastes great.  We are having some on our pizza tonight for dinner(as soon as I hit post I am headed for the kitchen).  I have been thinking about making it for at least a week and can't wait.

Hope you all find some yummy ways to use your veggies this week.

Carrots
Lettuce
Snap Peas
Snow Peas - not a ton but plenty for a stir fry or sautéed with some carrots.
Cucumbers - out of the high tunnel
Dill - We have been using a lot of dill this spring.  It is great with carrots, snap peas and of course also with cucumbers.
Broccoli
Strawberries
Radishes - Large Only