Week 6 July 31st

Its the season of hot mornings out early harvesting before the sun is up and wilts the plants. Afternoons are catching up on weeding and weed whacking, our hands and clothes now permanently stained with grass and dirt. The cherry tomatoes have almost reached the 6-foot-high lower metal bars spanning the greenhouse, and we tied them to their trellis string for the last time. From here on out they will grow a bit taller and then flop over heavy with the weight of their fruit. We will push through them to pick, a tangled jungle of vines and sweet orange treats. The first round of squash is done in the tunnel and in the next week we will seed those beds to winter carrots. Kyle harvested all of the cabbage with a volunteer this week, and it now sits in 8 huge bins in our walk-in, and that section of the garden will soon be turned into a green cover of oats for the fall. Early potatoes are next to be pulled. If we are lucky on time these hot evenings we’ve been bailing early on the farm and heading over to long pond. Although it’s hard to stop working, the transition from busy day to night is sometimes tricky and seems to be made easier for us all with a short swim.

Please choose 8 items and PYO Basil

• Celery

• Cabbage

• Parsley

• Sungold Cherry Tomatoes

• Sweet Green Peppers

• Eggplant

• Squash/Zucchini

• Green Beans

• Butter Crisp Lettuce

• Kale

• Carrots

• Beets

• Yellow green onions

• Kohlrabi

• Fennel

• Maybe Cukes?! These are being slow.