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This post expired on August 14, 2023.

Greetings,

We’re adding Tropea onions this week, a milder, sweet, red onion good for salads, sandwiches, grilling, roasting and stir fries.

We’re also getting tomatoes from the field now so you can order those and/or greenhouse tomatoes which are still producing well. They’re both for the same price of $3/pound.

Green bell peppers are on hold right now.

Most people like the Bull’s Horn peppers that have turned a sweeter red so that’s what we provide if available when you order them. If we run out of red ones then we use the green. If you would rather have green Bull’s Horn peppers you can let us know in the comment section.

The second planting of basil is producing well now. If you like to make pesto for the winter or just for fresh eating, now is a good time. No sign yet (knock on wood) of basil downy mildew, the new worldwide scourge of fresh basil.

I may be speaking too soon, but a curiosity this season is the relative lack of tomato hornworms, that large, voracious caterpillar stage of the Hawkmoth that can do so much damage to the fruit and foliage of the tomato plant. Those that have appeared have more often than not been attacked by the Braconid wasp that lays it’s eggs on the hornworm. The larvae hatch, partake of the hornworm’s insides, then form a cocoon on the caterpillar’s back. The wasps emerge and the weakened caterpillar dies. Nature at work.

Thank you for your orders.

Enjoy,
Tim