It’s here- the June Garden Morning and Potluck this Saturday, June 28th! We may be able to sneak between the raindrops but no matter what, we’ll have jolly attitudes plus a blueberry dessert and a bean dish to share at lunch. Join us anytime 10am-1pm.
There’s a great new crop of cilantro along with a vigorous batch of mixed red/green lettuce greens plus more head lettuce. The penetrating heat of the last week pushed the spinach, arugula planting, and spicy mixed greens into seed production aka bolting. Even though the spinach is tall, the flavor is still mild and is edible raw or cooked. We had a planting of spinach staggered after this one, but unfortunately the germination was mediocre. We’ll keep you posted if there will be another crop available before the fall plantings (where it shines again in the cooler temperatures).
Excellent new sweet Genovese basil along with the aromatic and multi-purpose tulsi holy basil.
Maddie and Koral held down the fort while Bob and Flip snuck away for a few days to bask in the excellent cycling, abundant birds, and clear waters on Wolfe Island, the largest of the Thousand Islands. There is much acreage in field crops along with beef on pasture.
Crops Available
* marks new this week
- Basil*
- Cilantro
- Dill
- Garlic greens (immature garlic)
- Garlic scapes (in small fridge)
- Head lettuce
- Kale, curly and lacinato/dino
- Leaf fennel
- Mint
- Mixed lettuce greens
- Oregano
- Rainbow chard
- Thyme
- Tulsi holy basil*
- Rosemary*
- Blooming flowers: Columbine, false sunflower, evening primrose, globeflower, hollyhock, scabiosa, red hot poker, yarrow.
- The earliest flowers in the gardens are the perennials that survive from year to year. There are lesser quantities of these as compared to the annual flowers which are getting established now. Shareholders are welcome to harvest anything you see in the landscape (unless marked otherwise if we are saving for seed). Wandering in these beds each week will reveal new surprises.
Hop to it- come see me in the gardens!
Photo credits: Rainbow and toad Maddie Dolge