Week 9: Halfway!!!

“Where shall I put all these gifts with which the summer morning rewards me, and only me? Save them up for future books?  Use them immediately for a practical handbook called `How to be Happy?’ Or, getting deeper, to the bottom of things, understand what is concealed behind all this: behind the play, the sparkle, the thick green greasepaint of the foliage? 

“For there really is something—there is something! And one wants to offer thanks, but there is no one to thank.” 

Nabokov, The Gift

Let's keep it short: long day of harvest, lots to eat!

1. Pint of Sungold tomatoes OR 5 ears of corn.  These are always our earliest tomatoes; delicious!  By the afternoon I may have others in case these disappear quickly.   This week's corn is grown by Lou D'Allasandro of North Salem.  Just had 3 ears for dinner...fantastic!!!

2. 1 1/4 pounds of new potatoes.  Great crop this year.  Freshly dug, local potatoes are as superior to the store bought variety as tomatoes are.  7 other varieties will follow.

3.  Basil.  This crop doesn't quit.  Make a pesto and toss it with steamed and lightly mashed potatoes!

4.  Head of lettuce.  Finishing with some of the Australian, adding some Butterheads to the selection.

5.  Spring Onions/Scallions.  Whatever you wish to call them, they keep getting fatter and tastier.

6.  2 cucumbers OR 2 squash OR box of peppers (green and yellow sweet, jalapenos, and some wicked hot variety whose name I'll try to find in the morning).

7.  Box of plums OR 4 peaches.

8.  Swiss chard or Red Russian Kale or Green Cabbage or Chinese Red or Green Cabbage.

Interested in Organic Apples?  I've got an old espaliered tree I let grow and that has produced a nice crop of delicious apples.  This tree had never been sprayed with anything, ever.

Are you a fan of Cherry Stomp?  We've got Apricot Stomp this week.  

See you tomorrow!