This Week’s Harvest
- Swiss Chard
- Celery
- Potatoes
- Japanese Eggplant
- Melon or Broccoli
- Red Onions
- Bell Peppers or Sweet Italian Peppers
- Salad Mix
- Tomatoes
- Garlic
- Honeynut Squash
- Escarole
Farm News
We find ourselves in a similar situation as in recent years where is doesn’t rain in August and September! To add to our irrigation woes one of our sprinklers is broken. During the rainy period when we didn’t need to water, a mouse decided to take up residence in the sprinkler and ruined the wires. Ben cleaned out the nest and spliced the wires but when we flipped the switch it still wouldn’t work. So that’s a problem that will eventually be solved but we are saving it for another day. In the meantime, we are using our shorter sprinkler.
Fortunately we have less and less to water as we clear out crops and aren’t planting any more. One thing we do need to do as soon as significant rain enters the forecast is seed our fall cover crops. We could be sowing oats and winter rye any time now…..so fingers crossed a good system with accumulation enters the forecast soon so we get cover crops established. We will not irrigate cover crop seed. It’s absurd enough that we have to irrigate our potato crop just to harvest it!
Recipes
Coming Up Next Week (our best guess…) Broccoli, Salad Mix, Fennel, Kale, Tomatoes, Cauliflower, Honeynut Squash, Red Potatoes, Sweet Onions, Sweet Corn