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Greetings from the farm,
We have a few new offerings this week: Ailsa Craig onions, a large, sweet onion for salads, sandwiches, grilling, roasting, and cooking – Yellow Finns, a potato with yellow skin and yellow flesh for baking, roasting, or boiled – Winterbor kale, a curly kale that is a bit early this year – and some broccoli, also early.
We make three plantings of broccoli. It’s one of those crops that is ready one day and often gone by the next, especially in warm weather. So we have it for a week or two and then it’s gone until the next planting comes on. I’m estimating we’ll have about 20 lbs this week.
Golden beets are back.
We have some bad basil news. Just last week I mentioned how we had a lot of nice basil and also mentioned the disease basil downy mildew. Well, in less than a week our whole second planting was ruined by the disease. Just like that. We have a small third planting that may make a crop in a while, but I’m not counting on it. I hope to figure out a means of prevention for next year or else basil is going to become a short season crop.
For the record, I’ve read that the disease was first noted in Uganda in 1933 and then not much notice if any was given to it until it began to spread around the world in short order in the 2000s and is now widespread.
So, I’m sorry not to be able to offer basil for now.
Anyway, thanks for your orders and enjoy the waning summer.
Tim