today's harvest

BAG RETURN: Good job last week! Please keep it up!

FULL SHARES:

maybe a melon*

4-6 cucumbers**

1-4 summer squash+

bunch chard

beans++

3-5 slicing tomatoes#

pint cherry or salad tomatoes#

1-3 eggplant or 2-3 sweet bell peppers

bunch broccoli, head cabbage, bunch onions, or bunch sweet frying peppers

cutting garden

SMALL SHARES:

2-3 summer squash or 1-3 eggplant

4-6 cucumbers**

head cabbage

2-4 slicing tomatoes#

beans++

cutting garden

*We are starting to harvest our melons as they ripen. Some of you will be getting musk melons, and some will be getting watermelons. The musk melons may need a little more time to ripen up. You can tell when they are ripe when the end is a bit soft and the melon is fragrant. Watermelons will not ripen off the vine, so if we accidentally gave you an unripe one, please let us know and we'll get you another next week.

We harvest the musk melons a little under-ripe because once they start to smell, they become very attractive to all manner of bug and beast.

You can all expect to receive melons over the next few weeks.

**Our cucumbers are really producing this year! If you're having trouble keeping up, look up how to make quick pickles on the internet. It's quick, and they'll last a good deal longer.

+Some of the zucchini will be of a size ideal for stuffing, parmesan, or zucchini bread.

++At the time of this post, we are still picking beans. You will be getting a lot of beans again. If you are having trouble keeping up with them, we'd recommend freezing them. Again, there are instructions for this all over the internet.

#Some of the slicing tomatoes may need a few days to ripen up. Also, some of them split a little in all the rain. Be sure to protect them from fruit flies. The cherry tomatoes are either black or orange. The salad tomatoes (Jaune Flamme) are meant to be orange — some of them may need a bit of ripening. They are a great size for salads, but you can do anything with them!

CUTTING GARDEN: NEW THIS WEEK: In addition to the sunflowers and hot peppers that are now available, you may now pick HUSK CHERRIES! Husk cherries are like little tomatillos, but very sweet. They grow in a paper lantern, and are ripe when both the paper and fruit are golden. They are just starting to ripen, so you may only find a handful this week. The ripe ones tend to fall off the bush, and usually remain in good shape as they wait on the ground for you to swoop them up. Feel free to carefully pick up the branches of the plant to look for fruit underneath. The bushes are the sprawling creatures that are threatening to overcome the rest of the pyo garden.