Week 14

"I suppose none of us recognise the great part that is played in life by eating and drinking. The appetite is so imperious that we can stomach the least interesting viands, and pass off a dinner hour thankfully enough on bread and water; just as there are men who must read something, if it were only Bradshaw's Guide. But there is a romance about the matter after all. Probably the table has more devotees than love; and I am sure that food is much more generally entertaining than scenery. Do you give in, as Walt Whitman would say, that you are any the less immortal for that? The true materialism is to be ashamed of what we are. To detect the flavour of an olive is no less a piece of human perfection than to find beauty in the colours of the sunset."

Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage

     So the tomatoes were growing so robustly earlier this summer they threatened to tear holes through the plastic on the greenhouses, and so I removed the plastic.  And lo, they continued to grow and set fruit.  And then a terrible stretch of late summer weather blew through, perfect for blight, and so blight came unbidden, and stayed.  We done seen the peak of tomatoes for the year folks--hope you liked them!  One block is unaffected so far, and a few heirlooms have not succumbed, so all is not lost.  Still 2.5 pounds each for the week.  And in the fall, we will haul the taller greenhouses down the road so they will stay covered next year.

This week's share:

2.5 lbs tomatoes
2 cucumbers--getting near the end
Head of lettuce
Pea shoot/microgreen mix--fantastic!
Beans!--very nice pale yellow flat bean
3 peppers or 3 eggplant or 1 giant zucchini or 2 smaller zucchini
3 ears of Lou D'allasandro's corn--just had some for dinner--great!
4 apples or 4 pears

At the stand, first tomatillos coming in, some Woodland peaches, Seckel Pears, Red Jacket Apricot Jam!!!!, duck eggs, mesclun mix, baby spinach...

Eat well!