Each year as Ken harvests onions, we place them on racks to cure. Here is the rack of curing onions. Once we need the space for winter squash, I pull dried tops and rob off dirt, and sort onions by size. The dried tops go to compost or chicken bedding Empty racks ready for squash …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, garlic, potatoes, peppers, radicchio, a mustard green mix, kale or chard, parsley, and grapes Field Notes. As I draft this Monday morning frost is forecast. Frost signals the end of a few crops – basil for example. This afternoon I will close up the greenhouses and it will be a question of how cold for how long. Frost also signals …
This week we have two less common items available – radicchio and hakurei turnips. We grow a Treviso type of radicchio. It looks like a white spined red Romaine, but it ISN’T lettuce. It is an Italian green with a stronger, slightly bitter green flavor. I tend to roll leaves and cut in thin ribbons to add to salad as an accent. I saute it with onions. Some people grill it. We had some delicious …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic, potatoes, salad turnips, red radishes, beet thins, carrots, cucumbers and/or zucchini and herbs Field Notes. No frost yet! Usually by this time we have had at least a nip of frost. Soon we will start the “big dig” and getting roots in the root cellar for the winter. Ken is still picking all those summer crops and clearing space. Once we have …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, onions, garlic, potatoes, carrots or beets, and herbs Field Notes Ken cleared up areas of the garden and fields and transplanted several flats of greens since last week. As the days shorten he fits in all the harvesting – there are still tomatoes, cukes, summer squash, and other crops that require regular and frequent picking. With the heat he tends to get …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, zucchini, onions, garlic, parsley, and a new crop of winter kohlrabi Field Notes. Ken is clearing space. He is clearing out crops and plants as they finish and making space for fall plantings of spring greens. He is in planning mode as we get ready to move the mobile high tunnel off the tomatoes and onto fall greens. …
Late last week I had a couple nice, sunny days and I cut tops and roots off the garlic and sorted it for planting and storage. When we pull it from the field it goes on to racks to cure. I drag a table over and pull off a bunch at a time. Then I cut off tops and roots, brush off dirt and sort. The largest, most …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, potatoes, celery, cucumber, zucchini, onions, garlic, carrots, melon, basil and parsley Filed Notes. Ken is always thinking ahead! Monday he started moving chicks and chickens. He has several batches of chicks at varying ages. He is making room for the newer hens in one of the portable coops. The young roosters – cockerels – will go in the north coop. He has moved the larger …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, potatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, kohlrabi, onions, garlic, peppers, sweet corn, parsley, and basil. Field Notes. The tsunami of tomatoes has crested; early varieties are about done. Later varieties are still going strong. It has been an interesting season – cooler nights meant later hot weather crops and heavy dew meant more work to prevent molds, fungus and blights. Ken has moved up those seedlings pictured last …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, potatoes, onions, garlic, cucumber, zucchini, kohlrabi, lettuce, basil and parsley. Field Notes. People often wonder what I mean when I say nearly every week that planting continues. Well this week I have a photo of several of the fall greens. Ken finds that in August it is often easier to start greens indoors where he can regulate temperature and moisture. Another advantage of transplanting …
