Week 10

Anyone wondering where the cherry tomatoes are?  Me too.  I am hoping we have enough to put them in boxes next week.  We have been harvesting them for a couple weeks now, but they just haven't taken off enough to give enough to fill all the shares.  The corn is looking good - probably two weeks out!

Potatoes 

Rainbow Chard  

Sweet Onions

Head Lettuce

Carrots

Broccoli or Kale - Last Monday when we went to harvest we realized that with some of the issues we have had following the heat dome, it might be best to spit the broccoli up over a couple weeks.  As a result some of you got broccoli last week.  If you did you will get kale this week.  If you got kale last week, you can expect broccoli this week.  

Zucchini - Large Only

Week 9

Kale 

Salad - I thought the salad of baby lettuces tasted great last week so we are going to do it again!

Persian Cucumbers -  Here is a short piece in the LA Times about the rise of this style of cucumber from 2011.  It was very interesting to me and probably somewhat interesting to those who garden and like to grow cucumbers.  The rest of you might want to skip it :).  We grew these for the first time probably about 10 years ago.  The seed was given to us by a friend's dad who is from Iran.  They didn't really catch on with us though and we didn't grow them again until about three years ago.  They are great.  They are excellent in smashed cucumber salads which I am a big fan of - the New York Times has a good recipe but there are many out there.  

Beets

Carrots

Head Lettuce - Large Only

Have a great week!

Week 8

We discovered more things this week that took a little hit from the heat.  Hopefully that is the last of the surprises.  The weeds, on the other hand, seem to be thriving.  We have enough crew to get almost everything planted and harvested, but we are going on year two of not being able to manage the weeds the way we should because we are short on labor.  

Last week's big projects were getting all the garlic out of the ground and getting the weeds under control in the winter squash.  It is always such a relief to have all the garlic pulled and in the barn.  This week we have a big round of fall crops to get transplanted and need to seed our final round of carrots.  

Salad Mix

Zucchini/Summer Squash

Garlic

Potatoes - gold skin, gold flesh this week.  

Herb - Dealer's Choice

Snap Peas if they are available and if not Carrots

Cherry Toms - Large Only 

Week 7

There was lots of talk of last week's heat at market this week.  Pretty much every farm took some sort of hit, from shellfish to berries.  In retrospect I made a poor decision to transplant out some cabbages, kale and broccoli mid week, about 1200 plants.  They were in small plug flats, 128 to a tray.  The greenhouse that we keep our seedlings in has no climate control, poor ventilation and even with the shade cloth on it is stuffy and hot.  At a little over three weeks from seeding they were more than ready to go out.  I doubted hanging onto them for another week would do them any favors.  The cauliflower, which seems to be the most sensitive to transplant, we held on to and didn't transplant.  I thought if we just watered the heck out of them they would do better in the ground than the start house.  I was wrong.  The cauliflower, while a little long in the tooth was fine, but we lost a lot of the stuff we transplanted, probably more than half.  We won't feel that loss until the very end of August and September.  We have another planting seeded three weeks after that one that typically would overlap slightly so we should be able to weather it okay.  

On the happy side of things I ate my first Sungold cherry tomato this week.  

Carrots

Lettuce 

Collards

Cucumbers 

Potatoes - True new potatoes with super thin skins and creamy flesh.  They won't keep long, refrigerate if you aren't going to eat them ASAP.  

Scallions - Small Only

Cauliflower - Large Only

Mystery Item - Large Only