We’ll have choices from the following veggies for CSA this week:
Lettuce, spinach, melons, chard, kale, bok choi, onion, potato, carrots, beets, zucchini, cucumber, tomato, pepper, leeks, beans, dill, cilantro, parsley, basil
On the farm this week:
The season is changing and the mornings are getting dark and hard to see! Here’s Sarah harvesting bok choi in the morning. We starting harvesting bok choi a little early this fall because we found ourselves short on lettuce last week. We plant lettuce once a week starting the first week of May until the 3rd week of August. Even though we plant once a week; as the days get longer though, the time it takes for a head of lettuce to grow gets shorter; so inevitably at some point we end up having too much lettuce when the days are long. Then as the days start getting shorter the time it takes for lettuce to grow gets longer until we get to a point when we don’t have any lettuce ready – and that was last week. But if all goes well soon we will be harvesting our last planting of lettuce – which was a big one!
We are also back to having beans again as our last planting of beans is now ready. Here’s Alyssa in the newest beans. Usually I just seed the pathways to a cover crop, but this time I decided to overcast rye and clover over the whole bean crop. What I did not consider was that people would not like trying to spot the green beans among green blades of similar sized grass. Hopefully you don’t end up with a bag of grass. On the far left of this picture is sorghum sudangrass which I tried for the first time this year as a cover crop and It is tall!
And new this week are leeks! This is the perfect fall vegetable and if you don’t know what to do with it try potato leek soup with kale. And if you don’t know what to do with kale, try potato leek soup with kale! Here’s Sandra in the cooler
And people tell me they want ripe peppers; so we have been holding off on peppers to try to get some ripe pepers and they are turning colour! Now hopefully we don’t get some frost and lose them after waiting this long. Did you know that peppers just like tomatoes will continue to ripen once they’re picked? We pick them once they get a bit of colour but if you want them completely ripe they usually only take another few days. If you can guess who’s arm this is – you win a pepper!
That’s it for this week. See you soon!
Jonathan, Sarah, Sandra, Morgan, Alyssa, Shola, Barb,