The 2023 season is quickly coming to an end.

We picked the last of the eggplant, peppers, cabbage and beans last week and then mowed the big vegetable field clean.

Saturday was our final farmers’ market in Georgetown. Despite a forecast calling for showers we had nice weather – cold & breezy but no precipitation. As usual the good people of Georgetown came out & supported their market and the closing day was a success – a great way to end our 30th year there!

Thank you Georgetown!

There are only 2 weeks remaining in our fall CSA – this week and next.

Growing conditions have been favourable – some sun, enough rain and most importantly, no frost – so we have been able to keep the CSA boxes full each week.

Here is last week’s CSA table ready for pick up.

What’s in the box?

Squash, salad turnips, salad greens, sweet peppers, green onions, beets.

Extras – cabbage, hot peppers, kohlrabi.

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Around the farm this week …

How about that!

Finally we got some coloured peppers & even some red shepherd peppers – at the last, clean-up pick! Too little, too late, but we’ll take them anyway!

And continuing that thought …

Here are the last sunflowers finally beginning to bloom – the patch that was supposed to be harvested for the Thanksgiving market!

But in anticipation of this possibly happening, I did plant them close to the house, so at least we can see them & enjoy them daily.

Under this white, insect cover is the fall cauliflower crop. Big, beautiful, healthy plants – but no heads yet!

The baby broccoli is coming. Will it mature in time for CSA next week?

There is lots of salad greens though – spinach, lettuce, mini-romaine, arugula …

Because we have not had a frost, the dahlias are still blooming and giving us pleasure.