Week 13

Last week we were surprised to find that we had more watermelons on Monday than Korean melons.  As a result Monday received watermelons and everyone else Korean melons.  Melons are so tricky.  They never pick the same year to year.  Watermelons in particular are tough.  We look for three things, a yellow spot where it sits on the ground, leaf dye down at the junction of the stem and the plant and tendril dye down in the same spot.  We also thump them.  Not a single one of those things is a guarantee and on every variety it is a different combo of how brown the leaf and the tendril need to be. On top of that there are always watermelons that refuse to follow the rules.  We sample a lot of them each year trying to figure out each variety.  I frequently get asked at market how to pick out a good watermelon and there isn't really a good answer.  Once a watermelon is off the plant it is hard to tell if it will be good. 

Everyone will get some sort of melon in their boxes this week and hopefully next week as well.  At this point we have only picked Korean melons and watermelons.  There are several more varieties we are waiting on. 

Carrots
Lettuce
Kale or Chard 
Persian Cucumber
Tomato 
Melon/Watermelon
Cauliflower - Large Only
Parsley - Large Only