- Onions, walla walla
- Garlic
- Colored Sweet Peppers: grilled kabobs
- Jalapeno Peppers: stuffed jalapeño peppers
- Tomatoes: tomato salad with the works
- Eggplant: smokey eggplant soup
- sweet corn: sweet corn relish
- Melons, watermelon to full shares, cantaloupe to half shares
- carrots
- summer squash, zucchini, and/or lemon squash
- Cucumber
- Salad greens
- Plums, compliments of my dad
herb shares: cilantro, parsley, sage, and oregano
The garden is starting to switch gears as the change of the seasons draws nearer. Tomatoes and other hot season crops are slowing down, as fall like crops are nearing harvest. We anticipate having potatoes and delicata squash next week. Make sure to get in the last of the BLTs!
Today arrived a small v plow which should help us plow up the potatoes without having to hand fork out the entire crop which we have done in all the years past. There was some blight on the potatoe crop this year so we anticipate a lower yield from last year, but will get a better idea of how they did once we start digging them up. The potatoes also have to be cured once they are dug. We wash them after they are cured in the dark for 2 weeks at room temperature. Then they get washed, dried and placed in the cooler for long term storage.
The onions are curing nicely and we have stored all the fall onions in the cooler and have the last of the harvest curing for the winter. This totals over 700#s of onions in the cooler for the off season. Our bumper crop of garlic is also cured and will be transferred to the cooler for long term storage. You can imagine how full the cooler gets once all these storage crops are packed in there! We will try to keep it as fresh garlic as long as we can in the cooler. Once quality starts to diminish, we will mince and freeze it for longer storage.
The boys were back to school this week. I think I get just as nervous and excited as they do trying to adjust our schedules and routines to have us be organized for prepared for the school schedule. This year Ashlan is in 5th grade and Ethan is in 2nd grade.
Eat Well. Smile Often.
Your Farmer,
Heather