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The end of August
Greetings,
School buses will start appearing this week and hopefully the storm tonight will drive out the humidity and make it feel more like the end of summer and beginning of fall.
Thank you for accommodating the change in pick-up day last week. We’re back to Fridays now.
We have carrots by the pound this week. The variety called Nelson that we’re harvesting now is getting a leaf disease called Alternaria due to all the wet, humid weather we’ve been having. The carrots are fine, but the tops are less suitable for bunching.
This same weather is also hard on lettuce. There’s no Summer Crisp this week and a limited amount of Romaine. I should be able to come up with Red Leaf and Boston, as well as salad mix.
We still have plenty of nice basil, which is a treat after two seasons of losing it to basil downy mildew by early August.
The cucumbers ended early this year due to another leaf disease. I’m sorry about that because they’re so good fresh.
We’re still setting out lettuce, sowing arugula, salad mix, and spinach, and weeding (!)
Thank you for your orders. I hope you’ve been finding the produce to be fresh and good-tasting.
Enjoy,
Tim