This week the CSA is getting the last of the storage carrots. The fall crop of carrots will be ready in a few weeks. The small shares are getting komatsuna. It has gotten a little bug nibbled in the intervening week, but it is still just as delicious. The yellow margined leaf beetles love it as much as we do! It can be used similar to bok choi, or the leaves can be used as a substitute for spinach in most recipes.
We are taking advantage of the dry weather to clean out the summer garden and get it ready for fall. Almost all the summer crops have been mowed down and disk harrowed into the soil. Just one little island of green remains with the pole beans, the last of the tomatoes and squash. The okra has been allowed to stand since it as still been producing well. As soon as we see wet weather in the forecast it will be coming down! Leaving okra debris in the field is a guarantee for pest problems the following year.
Now that Randy has disk harrowed the summer beds, once the debris breaks down a little bit, we will be able to plant it all with a pea, oat, and clover cover crop mix. It’s hot and dry now, and it feels like it will last forever, but we never know when the persistent wet weather of fall will begin. Best to get everything buttoned up for fall while we have the chance.
I love getting the field ready for winter. Mowing everything down, returning it to a clean slate, full of potential. I love seeing the end of all the hard work of spring and summer. Some crops I look on fondly, some I am eager to see gone so I’m not reminded of them. The pumpkin patch has been completely erased. I love that the work of every season is different. And I get to pass the year accordingly.
Small Shares
- Sweet potatoes
- Green beans
- Carrots
- Juliets
- Collard greens
- Komatsuna
Full Shares
- Sweet potatoes
- Green beans
- Carrots
- Juliets
- Collard greens
- Curly kale
- Napa cabbage
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