What’s in the box?
Green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, garlic, eggplant, kohlrabi, salad green.
fruit share – peaches.
The CSA box for week 9 is a great mix of produce, with 2 new vegetables, beans & cucumbers. However the lack of rain is evident – in the quantity & also in the quality of the vegetables we are harvesting.
- Green beans – finally! They seem to take forever! The variety we grow is supposed to take 60 days to mature and we seeded them in the field on June 4 – so they are right on time. Guess I’m just impatient! We have seeded beans every week since then. 9 times so far. Some plantings germinated well, others not so much – especially lately in the heat & drought. The earlier ones also struggled with weeds (as usual). But if things go according to plan, we should have green beans (and some yellow beans) in the box regularly.
- We picked some lovely cucumbers from our new row this morning – not a lot but enough to enhance your salad.
- Our tomatoes are getting more colourful each week as new kinds are harvested. They are tasting great too!
- The garlic is curing quickly in this warm weather. Keep it dry & at room temperature for maximum storage life.
- Eggplant, kohlrabi & a salad green complete the box this week.
Last week’s CSA pick up.
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Around the farm this week …
We received a very welcome half inch of rain last week. As dry as it is, a half inch doesn’t soak in very far – but it freshened things up, almost filled the cisterns, gave me a 1 day break from watering, and made a brief puddle or two! But what we really need now is an all night rain to soak in and saturate the ground.
Today’s plantings. They will need to be watered several times a day to get established and take root in this dry soil.
Georgetown farmers’ market on Saturday.
Helping Aunt Amy sort tomatoes.
Apparently garlic makes a comfortable bed ??
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