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 …
Ken keeps bees. Yesterday he suited up and was working with bees. At one point he walked near me, and I heard the sound of an unhappy guard bee. Bees usually have a sweet humming noise, but guard bees under stress sound insistent and rather like a dentist drill. The bee stung me just under the eyebrow. I yelled, and Ken came over and found it and pulled it off my hat and suggested I …
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 …
