It’s that time of year! Each Labor Day Ken announces the pigs have become hogs. Gone are the cute little piglets, and even the gawky, funny adolescents. They still are characters and they are full of energy The pigs get broader and they start to have jowls, and with the longer, cooler nights, they become most serious about their food. These pigs will go to the locker …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, cucumbers, onions, garlic, cabbage, kale, eggplant, carrots or beets, basil and parsley As I write this on Monday, Ken is thinning the fall beets and carrots. They are varieties from a UW vegetable trial program. We have found some new great varieties in greens, tomatoes, and peppers that we would not have tried if we were not participating in the …
As we approach Labor Day, the nights are cooler and longer, and I feel a sadness. That long list of plans from May needs to be revisited with a realistic eye, prioritized, and edited. The perky plants of May and June are large and sprawling; some have even started to die back. Their efforts have gone into making fruit and they have the look of an older woman – just as beautiful as the perky …
