This Week’s Harvest
- Watermelon Radish
- Carrots
- Oakleaf Head Lettuce
- Arugula
- Braising Mix
- Salad Mix
- Spinach
- Dill
- Kale
Farm News
You may have noticed your share is full of greens. This is greens season! Greens like the cooler weather of spring and early summer so we grow lots of them this time of year. Several greens are then absent during the warm months of July and August, but return to the harvest list in the fall. This will likely be the last week for arugula, spinach and braising greens until the fall. While we have several more plantings of head lettuce to enjoy, it is unlikely the heads will be as glorious as they are in the month of June and then again in October.
We do try to have a consistent supply of salad mix all season long. To do this we start a round every 2 to 3 weeks for about 20 weeks! One day last week I took a picture of all the plantings of salad mix we had going at once.
The third round of salad is giving us a run for our money. We planted it last Wednesday since the forecast was calling for a 90 % chance of rain on Thursday. Well after it rained everywhere else but on us, we dragged 4 hoses out to water it by hand on Thursday. I then decided to water it by hand again on Saturday night. We are using the overhead sprinkler to water everything else on the farm, field by field, and these 2 beds of salad have to wait in line for the sprinkler. They were looking really sad in the 90 degree heat and their turn for the overhead sprinkler isn’t until Tuesday night. So I gave them a little more water to hold them over. The things we do for fresh salad mix!!
Recipes
Watermelon Radish and Arugula Salad (you can use any nuts. My go to salad “nuts” are toasted sunflower seeds)
Carrot soup with collard greens (use kale or braising greens place of collards)
Coming Up Next Week (our best guess…….) Kale, Salad Mix, Radishes, Snap Peas, Beets, Scallions, Red Butter Lettuce, Leaf Broccoli