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More potatoes, a little broccoli


Greetings,

After today’s heat and humidity it looks like we’ll be slipping into cooler and – dare I say it? – more fall-like weather towards the end of the week. It’ll be welcome, at least for awhile.

We’re adding Kennebec and Yellow Finn potatoes and the first token amount of broccoli this week. A good range of other crops are still available, though some are slowing down a bit. The cherry tomatoes in the field are reluctant to crank out the way they usually do so we don’t have as many of those as I would like.

The cucumbers are very nice now, coming from the second planting (actually the third – the second planting rotted in the field in the cold and wet of late May/ early June). They should keep bearing into early September, I hope. They’re prone to various diseases, one of which is making the rounds in the region now, so we hope for the best.

The garlic is planted in the fall and this year, come spring, they grew in a soil that ranged from mud to wet into July. This was a challenge for them and a lot didn’t make it. We try to pass along good bulbs, but if you get one that’s bad let us know and we’ll replace it or refund you. Sometimes there’s just a bad spot here or there, but sometimes it’s worse than that.

On a brighter note, it’s still summer and there’s plenty of fresh food!

Enjoy,
Tim