ONIONS (F/P) Spicy red and yellow storage onions out of the barn.
TOMATOES (F/P) The tomatoes are getting slim, but everyone might get a pint tomorrow.
HAKUREI TURNIPS (F) Welcome back our fine white roots. See Tom’s post for a lemon pickle.
SWEET PEPPERS (F) Mostly our purple peppers.
CARROTS (P) the last of the storage carrots from the summer harvest.
OKRA OR EGGPLANT (F) We hear that the okra is popular down at the Bad Seed distribution. We wish it was producing better but it has stayed short this year and there isn’t a lot of fruit.
RATTLESNAKE BEANS (F) We are hoping for another week of harvest off of the pole beans. The new fruit looks nice but there may be small bags for only the full shares.
HERB CHOICE (F/P) hot peppers, parsley, thyme, basil or a dried herb.
GARLIC (F/P) Seems everyone we talk to had a bad garlic harvest this summer. We’ll have at least one head for all this week.
ALSO THIS WEEK: Parker Farms CSA shares
NEXT WEEK: More peppers, eggplant, turnips and tomatoes. Cauliflower and cabbage. Arugula and lettuce.
FARM REPORT:
On Monday we pulled the plastic on the high tunnel, which turned out to be a bigger job than we expected. Tom started the day by ascending to the tippy top and attaching the channel that would hold the plastic on the structure.
After spreading out two 40 x 100 ft. pieces on the ground we all climbed under the plastic and began attaching the plastic to the first side.
Then, we attached ropes to the plastic and attempted to pull it across the top. After much tugging and shouting and little progress we realized that we were a bit under-staffed for the job. With the plastic half on we had no choice but to continue. We added more rope, tugged and shouted some more and by about 1 pm we had managed to finish the job.
With the blower fan installed the two layers of plastic make a firmly inflated roof. Today we formed the beds, added compost and rock powders and then ceremoniously planted the first seed, a spinach seed to be exact.
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