We disappointed a lot of our customers at market on Saturday. (Never a good idea!)
The cause of their disappointment was our tomato display – or lack thereof.
Instead of our usual display …
… we had only a few pints of cherry tomatoes. And these sold out quickly.
This week, we will disappoint our CSA members. No tomatoes in the box!
We have about reached the end of our tomato season. For tomato lovers this is a sad time. For us it is bittersweet.
Tomatoes are one of our biggest crops – both in terms of income, and also time invested.
Amy seeded the first tomatoes more than 6 months ago. Since then she has transplanted them into pots, and then planted them into the field. They have been mulched, posted, tied & pruned (several times), and then harvested – usually 3 times each week – for more than 10 weeks. We sort them, pack them, display them and then finally sell them.
It has been a good tomato season. We picked an abundance of delicious & beautiful fruit. But now the plants are tired and diseased and the tomatoes lack flavour. We might scour the patch again this week to try and find those last few tomatoes worth picking & eating. Or, we might not.
We enjoy everything about growing tomatoes – including the end of the season!
What’s in the box?
Edamame, kohlrabi, lettuce, carrots, green onions, shishito peppers, sweet peppers, garlic.
Extras – hot peppers, eggplant, beets.
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Around the farm this week …
Today’s planting – lettuce, spinach, arugula, baby kale …
Under the white insect cover are radishes & salad turnips for our fall CSA.
Mini romaine lettuce, more salad greens and cauliflower & cabbage.
We hope to have some winter squash in the box next week (our last week). Weather conditions were not favourable for squash this summer so the crop is smaller & later.
But our nut crop is great! Walnuts, hazelnuts and heartnuts – usually the squirrels harvest them all, but there appears to be lots for us this year. So far …
Someone loves blackberries!
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