It rained! It rained A LOT! We got nearly four inches last Tuesday night. The gardens and pastures got a good drink. The pond is full again and the baby frogs and salamanders are not vulture food. What a relief.
The radishes, kohlrabi and arugula are all doing amazing this year, so there has been rather a lot of it in your shares. Radishes don’t have to be eaten raw, and while I love them as a crunchy topping to tacos and creamy soups, for example, my favorite way to eat them is roasted. They are also great sauteed or in stir fry.
More things are on the way, too. We might have cabbage as early as next week, and broccoli is only a week or two away. It is just starting to make heads. Squash and zucchini are two to three weeks out. Ditto the onions. I pulled up a head of garlic today to prove to myself that they are in fact doing something down there, but it’s been so long since we’ve grown garlic I have no idea when it’ll be ready. The carrots wont be ready until mid-June, about the same time the green beans will be coming in. I’m expecting the carrots a little later this year because we had to reseed them after that 17 degree night in March that wiped them out when they were just tiny babies.
But we are still planting! Today more tomatoes went in the field and the high tunnel. We’ve planted out eggplants and okra. Watermelon and cantaloupe has been seeded in the greenhouse, and soon we’ll be adding winter squash. We don’t stop planting until October, when we finally get to coast into the end of the season. But until then, we will be planting something or other every week.
Small Shares
- Kohlrabi
- Radish
- Arugula
- Chard
- Bibb Romaine lettuce
Full Shares
- Kohlrabi
- Beets
- Radish
- Arugula
- Lacinato Kale
- Bibb Romaine Lettuce
- Red and Green Butter Lettuce
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