What a difference a week makes!
Summer, finally, with temperatures a bit shocking after all that cold and wet, but no complaints here!!!!Peppers and tomatoes look happy, though they have some catching up to do. Eggplant may be a lost cause. Had baby zucchini for lunch today!!!! You'll get it next week! Perfection. We finally have a good looking crop of carrots on the way, beans look great, cukes should take off with this weather, we'll be having scallions, baby onions, and onions for many weeks after this.
Transplanted pac choi, kale, lettuce, kohlrabi and chard this morning. Seeded more lettuce mix, asian greens, and spinach.
I'm sure you've learned by now: wash the lettuce very well!!!!! All the lettuce heads we have harvested and will be harvesting come from three successive plantings earlier in spring. After each one, we had very heavy rainfalls, so that dirt bounced up into the stem joints of all of our lettuce. The only way to get it out is to wash thoroughly. Certainly worth the effort, yes? My dinner every night for nearly two months now has been a massive salad.
In this week's share:
2 heads of lettuce
Salad mix
chard or kale or spinach
baby turnips!
garlic scapes---double the amount this week
pea shoots!
pint of strawberries! (I'm out of pint containers, so these are in quart baskets--underwhelming presentation, but they are truly a pint's worth! And delicious! From Fingerlakes Family Farms, a wonderful farm. I ate way too many today.
I have some broccoli at the stand. Very nice spring for broccoli, and our springs are rarely nice for broccoli, so I don't plant much of it. I will try a heavy fall planting this year and see how it goes.
Eat well!
The broccoli was fabulous!
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