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On to August!


This post expired on July 31, 2023.

Greetings,

I’m happy to say we’re offering carrots now.

Not so happy to say that this year’s blueberry season has been relatively light and brief. One variety bore less than usual and all the heat brought many of them on fast. And this year in particular, the Japanese Beetles have had more than their share. There are still berries for those who might want to come pick, but the picking is too slow, what with all the other things that need doing, for us to offer them online.

This week will be the last of the u-pick blueberries.

Meanwhile, we’re still sowing and transplanting lettuce and planting salad mix in the field, along with arugula, spinach and bok choy.

The Tropea and Ailsa Craig onions are starting to size up, and tomatoes in the field are ripening here and there.

The garlic crop is in the barn. The quality looks good, but the yield is modest. Another casualty of all the rain in June.

The fall cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower are coming along nicely, while the kale is just beginning to shake off the shock of being planted in the midst of the worst of our hot weather.

We’re in the final push to get ahead of the weeds and with Madeleine and Ethan’s help there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Or is that just more weeds? So far we’ve only lost one planting of salad mix to weeds in what has been a very weedy year.

Thanks as ever for your orders.

Enjoy,
Tim