Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has lettuce, spinach, salad and braising greens, Napa cabbage, green onions, radishes, herbs, and asparagus.
Field Notes. Ken has been juggling tasks around rain. After a couple days of dry weather he gets out and cultivates the garden, field, and around the mobile high tunnel.
Once we got the last of the perennial flowers out of the loop on the drive, Ken moved the hens down near the mobile high tunnel and expanded the pigs’ area,. When he feeds the pigs, Ken picks rocks and sunchokes. I boil the growing sunchokes and we feed them to the pigs. Ken plans to plant a green manure crop, fence the pigs out and once it gets waist high, fence them back in – they will eat the greens and dig those roots.
Monday we got the cucumber fence up. Ken has tried many different arrangements, and likes this one best. The cukes grow up the fence and the fruit hang down and are easier to see and cut off from the vine. It also means more are straight.
From the Kitchen. I started preserving for winter over the weekend. I froze some asparagus. I blanch, chill and bag up. In winter I make cream of asparagus soup. It is great to have green food when we are eating a lot of root vegetables. For step by step directions see the prior blog entry.
Next I will be freezing spinach for winter soups and quiches
‘Til Next Week, Judith
