Greetings from the Garden! This box has sprouts, onions, garlic, celery root, carrots, beets, black radishes, kohlrabi, and dried black beans Field Notes. This is our final box. After twenty – three years I think we can say it was a good run. We have delivered vegetables to people on time without fail for all those years. Each box had at least eight different varieties, and many had over twelve. Ken did a marvelous …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has cabbage, kohlrabi, potatoes, green peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, green beans, onions, and parsley Field Notes. Ken got a new area set up for the pigs, and we moved them Friday. Ken is also irrigating green houses, planting fall crops, and more. The soil is dry, but I am careful what I wish for – some friends just got six inches of rain! Ken checked his …
Green beans mean summer! First they bloom, then they have tiny fruit – what Ken calls rat tails, and these grow into the pods I will pick Once I see blossoms I start checking for tiny pods – today I saw the first one! In a couple weeks we will have beans for sale.
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 …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has greens, bok choy, cukes and zukes, potatoes, peppers, beans, beets or carrots, onions, garlic, parsley and the first of the basil Field Notes. The garden tour was Sunday. It always marks a turning point in the summer for us. The crops look good. The days are starting to seem shorter. Ken can take a deep breath and prepare for the rest of the season Ken is …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has salad and braising greens, beets, bok choy, green onions, celery, cukes and zucchini, snap peas, and green beans. Field Notes. The hot weather crops are starting to produce! People are asking for them, but with the beautiful cool nights we have had they are a bit slower to ripen than most years. We usually have a couple red tomatoes by July 4th, but they are just …
