September is …

• wet mornings.

The dew is often heavy & lingering, which means a slower start to picking – for our sake, but mostly for the vegetables. Picking vegetables wet can lead to disease on the plants (eg. beans get rust), or mold & spoilage issues with the fruit (eg. blackberries).

But the morning dew & the bright sunshine are also beautiful!

• the end of the summer vegetables … and blackberries.

Tomatoes – almost over.

Many blackberry plants are almost picked clean, while others still have quite a few berries.

• Lots more vegetables – fall vegetables …

 

like lettuce, spinach, arugula,

cabbage, bok choy, radicchio ( a new one for us!)

carrots

several kinds of cabbages

and peppers.

• the end of seeding & planting.

This week we will seed our final crops – lettuce, spinach, arugula, and kale and transplant the last of the cabbages & other lettuces.

What’s in the box?

Chinese cabbage, beets, peppers, beans or zucchini, blackberries, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, garlic.

• Chinese cabbage is different from our regular cabbage. It is tender, mild & sweet. Enjoy it raw in salads, or in stir-fries or steamed. Because it is so tender it cooks quickly & can turn to mush if overdone!
• Our new patch of beets includes red beets, yellow beets & candy cane – red & white striped – beets. They are all delicious & sweet!
• When we go through the pepper patch now, we can finally see lots of colour – and lots of peppers. The forecasted warmth this week should bring them on faster. They are both beautiful & delicious!
• Beans & zucchini – we have both, but not a lot of either. Choose one or the other this week.
• Enjoy the blackberries this week – perhaps the final week for them!
• Lettuce, tomatoes, onions & garlic – part of your CSA share again this week.

This is week 15 of our CSA – 3 more weeks to go!