Summer Share, Week 1

“This is June, the month of grass and leaves. The deciduous trees are investing the evergreens and revealing how dark they are. Already the aspens are trembling again, and a new summer is offered me. I feel a little fluttered in my thoughts, as if I might be too late. Each season is but an infinitesimal point. It no sooner comes than it is gone. It has no duration. It simply gives a tone and hue to my thought.”

Henry David Thoreau

June.  Last week for spring spinach, arugula, asparagus, rhubarb...radishes are gone...the beets and turnips have not appreciated this roller coaster of a spring...all the tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and cucumbers have been planted.  The potatoes will receive their first hilling of hay this week...Beans will roll out in succession, zucchini will be planted over several weeks to avoid the borer in at least one planting...Every day,  something is being harvested, ripped out, or planted--this will continue late into fall.

I figure someday this will happen to the garden we so carefully tend: The wilds return.

In this week's share:

Must take!!!!!!!

Head of lettuce

Spring onions

Microgreens

Choose 4:

green kale

swiss chard (first cut--very tender!)

semposai (hope you're not sick of this--this is the greatest plant ever!)

rhubarb (last call!!!!)

arugula (last call until fall--except in microgreen form)

spinach (last call for the tender spring stuff--we are planting out New Zealand and Gator Spinach,  both delicious but not nearly as tender)

chives

parsley

possibly turnip greens

Last of the asparagus is for purchase only, to be fair.  Tough first spring for the asparagus field!!! Next spring can't be this bad...we tripled the size of the field, and have nearly 800 plants now.