- potatoes
- carrots
- onions
- beans
- beets
- zucchini
- cucumbers
- peppers
Extras...
- purple cabbage
- cherry tomatoes
- pickling cucumbers***
***We are going to start pulling out the pickling cucumbers after this week, unless you want more to can. Let us know.
We're starting to pull the plants in the garden that are done producing (cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, kale). We give these to the chickens. They seem to eat less grain feed this time of year because of all the veggies they are getting. It is especially nice this year since the price of feed is going up a lot.
We are trying something new this year. As we clear out areas in the garden, we spread manure, till and then plant oats. We are hoping this will improve the soil health, decrease weeds for next spring, and help retain more moisture for next spring. We are also hoping it will make our old tiller last a little longer. We used to wait until everything was done producing, pull it all out, till the whole garden, spread manure and then till again. This was hard on both the tiller and Josh, making them work hard covering the whole garden twice in one weekend. Josh tells me that tilling is his least favorite job. I don't like it either, since I can't help. We can work together on almost every other project on the farm and that is what we like most about what we do.
The tomatoes are starting to ripen. The first ones that ripen have bottom end rot, so that is why you aren't seeing them in your basket yet. It seems to happen every year. But you should be getting tomatoes soon.:) The edemame will be ready soon too. Otherwise you're baskets will continue to have the pretty much same things as this week for a while. The other "new" items will be the fall items that will come at the end of the season...winter squash, pumpkins, and gourds.
We won't be having sweet corn in the baskets this year. It got too dry and couldn't recover. So if you are craving it as you drive by the road side trucks filled with corn, stop and gets some.
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