In this week’s box: Tomatoes Heirloom tomatoes Sungold Cherry Tomatoes Eggplant Garlic Bulbs Yukon gold or Nicola Potatoes (both potatoes are yellow-fleshed potatoes) Scallions Red Leaf Lettuce… Read more “8/7 CSA week 12”
Category: CSA: Farm Notes
7/31 CSA week 11
In this week’s box: Kale Heirloom tomatoes Slicer tomatoes Sungold cherry tomatoes Sweet corn Red and green leaf lettuce Candy onions Basil Sweet Italian red peppers Bell… Read more “7/31 CSA week 11”
7/24 CSA week 10
In this week’s box: Candy Onions Scallions Celery Red potatoes Basil Italian globe and fairy tale eggplant Jalapeño and Hugarian hot wax peppers (jalapeños are green and… Read more “7/24 CSA week 10”
7/17 CSA week 9
In this week’s box: Tomatoes Cucumber Summer squash and zucchini Scallions Red Potatoes Red leaf lettuce Candy onions Bell peppers Fruit share: blackberries and blueberries (probably the… Read more “7/17 CSA week 9”
7/10 CSA week 8
In this week’s box: Scallions Summer squash and zucchini Fairy tale eggplant or Okra Basil Sweet corn Fennel Kale Cucumber Tomatoes Red and green leaf lettuce Fruit… Read more “7/10 CSA week 8”
7/3 CSA week 7
In this week’s box: Summer Squash and Zucchini Cucumber (first of the season…more to come!) Tomato (first of the season…lots more to come!) Candy Onions Scallions Garlic… Read more “7/3 CSA week 7”
6/26 CSA week 6
In this week’s box: Summer Squash and Zucchini Fennel or Chiogga Beets Sweet Onions Broccoli Swiss Chard Cabbage (Grown by Hungry Toad Farm in Centerville) Basil Fruit… Read more “6/26 CSA week 6”
6/24 CSA week 5
In this week’s box: Broccoli Kale Red Leaf Lettuce Raspberries Fennel Bulbs Hakurei Salad Turnips Summer Squash and Zucchini Flat Leaf Parsley 1. Fruit share: blueberries from… Read more “6/24 CSA week 5”
6/12 CSA week 4
Fresh Garlic Snap Peas Snow Peas Broccoli Head Lettuce Basil Raspberries Swiss Chard FYI: 1. The fruit share will resume next week with blueberries! 2. We are… Read more “6/12 CSA week 4”
6/5 farm notes
While every growing season is rewarding and challenging at different points throughout the season, this year we just keep marveling at how divergent from every previous year this season has been. The most recent example of the unexpected becoming necessary happened yesterday evening as I was heading out to set up irrigation. I walked past the garlic and noticed that a few plants were starting to send up secondary scapes. This happens every year with a handful of plants, but we like to harvest the crop before this becomes widespread because the garlic sends up a secondary scape when a clove starts to split off of the main head.
After digging up a couple of heads I determined that the garlic is essentially ready to harvest. To put this in perspective the rule of thumb in this part of the Midwest is that garlic is ready early in July. Now we have found that our garlic has always been ready about a week or two before that. In fact I had decided to dig our garlic at the summer solstice. So June 4 is very, very early, but it seems to follow the trend of everything being around two weeks ahead of where things have been in previous years.
So, after getting the water running Emily and I sat down and tried to figure out how we were going to get all the garlic harvested and tied up in the barn this week when we already were planning to setup the tomato trellis, plant out more flowers and vegetables, hill the potatoes, cultivate everything that needs it, and harvest for market! We don’t know how, but we do know that it will get done so check back for pictures of this year’s garlic harvest.