In your share this week:
- Garlic Scapes - a lot! Last of the season. If you aren't going to use them fresh, I hope you'll take some time to preserve these for use later. They can be cut up quickly with scissors and frozen in snack sized baggies, or dehydrated (which can then be pulverized to make garlic scape powder). Pesto is quick and easy to make and freezes very well.
- Boc Choi
- Japanese Turnips - leafy greens were cut off because of aphids. This crop is almost done for the season, we hope to get one last picking next week (though with this upcoming heat I can't say for sure if they will make it).
- Salad Mix
- Spinach
- Chamomile - enough to dry for making tea this winter.
- Zucchini
Now that the weather is really warming up, I got the okay to remove the row cover from our zucchini plants (they have grown quite well with all the pampering we've given them) and pick our first batch of zucchini, just enough for each CSA share to get one. And the plants are loaded with blossoms. Now begins the time of year when I need to remember to go pick zucchini 3 times a week. And you probably want to get out your favorite zucchini recipes because there will be an abundance. The summer squash were uncovered today too, but they are at least a week or two behind.
We (this includes our great crew of Workshares) have been able to get a LOT of weeding done in the last week. And each time we weed, it helps the crops grow so we can harvest them more quickly. Just a week ago we weeded a long row of spinach and that allowed it to grow so I could cut it this week. The spinach is bolting, but we got one good cutting from it and it will be interesting to see how it grows back. Other crops recently weeded, which we expect to harvest soon, are beets, carrots, cilantro, bronze fennel, and boc choi. Join us for some weeding therapy on the farm - early in the morning in a greenhouse or later in the day outside in the sunshine. It always pays off with more good food to eat.
And just like clock work, it's the 4th of July and the heat turns up in Star Valley so the crops start growing a little more quickly. Your share will only continue to get bigger and better each week from here throughout the season.
Have a great week and ENJOY your veggies!
Tara
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