Excellent Garden morning yesterday with 8 households and some cameos at lunch. The rain basically held off and we completed plum, apple, and ground cherry harvest in addition to weeding the herbs and fall greens, and sorting the shallots. Lovely conversations interspersed throughout. There’s two more Garden Mornings this season, September 27 and October 25.
Jim and Regan made a fresh batch of fried zucchini, and Jim brought them around to all the groups working in the field for a late morning warm treat!
Plums! Seize these fruits in the next week if you are interested in these juicy pearls for fresh eating or a preservation project. There’s several bushels already in the share room! We’re trying our hand at plum sauce and a chutney tomorrow.
Beautiful purple tatsoi is mild and great in stirfries.
It’s still very dry. A slight relief to get some moisture a couple days ago, and we’d like more.
Crops Available
* marks new this week
- Apples* (some blemishes, great for baking or cooking project)
- Arugula
- Basil
- Celery
- Cherry Tomatoes- 4 varieties, in order from the driveway Queen of the Night, Black Cherry, Sunsugar, and Juliet
- Cilantro
- Dill
- Green beans
- Groundcherries
- Head lettuce
- Kale, curly and lacinato/dino
- Leaf fennel
- Lemon verbena
- Mint
- Oregano
- Plums*
- Rainbow chard
- Tatsoi*
- Thyme
- Tulsi holy basil
- Rosemary
- Sage*
- Scallion
- Blooming flowers: Anemone, calendula, celosia, cleome, echinacea, false sunflower, dahlia, gladiolas, gomphrena, salvia, statice, snapdragons, sunflower, tithonia, zinnia.
- The only flower not available for harvest is the yellow perennial sunflower in the research plot. The plot has a string marking it off from the rest of the flower beds.
