FULL SHARES:
2 lbs new potatoes
2 bulbs garlic
1-3 summer squash (size dependent)
3-4 sweet onions
1-2 heads radicchio
bunch chard
small bunch salad turnips*
green sweet peppers or broccoli
bunch herbs**
cutting garden
SMALL SHARES:
1 lb new potatoes
1 bulb garlic
1-2 summer squash or cabbage
2 sweet onions
2-3 heads baby lettuce
bunch beet greens w/ baby beets+
bunch herbs**
*The purple top salad turnips will need some trimming due to worm damage. In most cases this will mean cutting away a bit of the turnip. But if you get a turnip that is mostly not usable, let us know.
**The sage, marjoram, and oregano really needed cutting so we did it for you. You'll have one or another these herbs in your share this week.
+Beet greens are edible raw or cooked. Small baby beets can be prepared and used like a full grown beet. These are in your share because we thinned a beet bed. The beets that remain in the ground can now grow larger.
CUTTING GARDEN: The flower and herb garden is filling out very nicely. You may cut several small bunches of herbs or one large one. You may pick a large bouquet of flowers.
CROP UPDATE: We are transitioning from spring and early summer crops to mid and late-summer crops. The summer squashes are really starting to yield, and you can expect a lot more over the next several weeks. Cucumbers are in full bloom and many small cucs have set. You can expect to see the first cucumbers next week, and then increased yields after that. Green and wax beans are starting to form. You should see the first harvest next week. Tomatoes are growing on the plants and blossoms abound. We should start seeing our first ripe tomatoes in ten days to two weeks. The peppers are looking good. You'll be seeing green ones initially, and then more colorful ones in August. The eggplants are a bit behind as the plants have been under attack by potato beetles. We have been diligently combating the beetles, and the eggplants will be coming a little later this year. Midsummer carrots and beets should be ready for harvest in the next few weeks.
The peas and fava beans are done for the year.
The kale and collards strained in the heat, and suffered an apocalyptic and unusual mid-summer flea-beetle attack. We'll be babying the plants over the next few weeks to get them ready for later harvests. By way of contrast, the chard is doing very well.
Earlier in July we sowed our fall carrots and beets, and are now prepping beds for other fall crops.
In the greenhouses we are growing lettuce, choi, and napa cabbage for planting later in August.
