today's harvest

BAG RETURN: is getting worse every week again! Please remember to bring your bags back so we have something to put vegetables in. We're very close to changing the system so that you have to bring your own bag and transfer your veg from one to the other. We don't want to institute the new system, but if bag return does not improve, we will have to.

FULL SHARES:

2-4 summer squash

3-5 cucumbers

2 lb potatoes

bunch chard

bunch onions

bunch sweet frying peppers

bunch turnip*

beans**

cabbage, broccoli, tomatoes, or hot peppers+

cutting garden

SMALL SHARES:

2-3 cucumbers

2-3 summer squash or 1-3 eggplant

bunch carrots

bunch onions

beans**

cutting garden

*The turnips this week are good for boiling, grating or roasting. There's a bit of superficial damage to some of them, but we can't see how deep it goes without cutting the root. So if you get any turnips w/ extensive damage, let us know and we'll make it up to you.

**We're still sorting out the beans at the time of this post, so are not sure how much everyone is getting yet. This week we have green beans, french filet beans, purple beans, and yellow wax.

+The hot peppers are about 3-4 inches long and pale yellow in color (Hungarian hot wax). We have a few heirloom slicing tomatoes in some of your shares this week. We pick them a little under-ripe so that they transport better. A day or two in a paper bag should see them ready for slicing.

CUTTING GARDEN: The flower and herb garden is looking great. You may cut several small bunches of herbs or one large one. You may pick a large bouquet of flowers. NEW THIS WEEK: A few sunflowers have begun to bloom. If you get here soon enough, you may take a cut or two for your bouquet. They will be more abundant over the next few weeks. Please cut down to the next small bud on the stalk.

CROP UPDATE: Tomatoes — they seem to be taking a long time to ripen for us this year. But there's a lot of fruit on the plants, and we should get greater and greater numbers now that the first have begun to ripen.