We have less salad greens now than we’d aimed for. Between poor germination and hot weather, it’s not ideal.
In tastier news, there’s other new crops and the flower garden is rockin’! There is a new bed of (small) head lettuces marked, along with a fresh patch of arugula. The cherry tomatoes are kicking into gear. The most fruit can be found in the middle (black cherry) and end of the bed (sunsugar) farthest from the driveway. The groundcherry / husk tomatoes are starting to ripen. Groundcherry Harvest video here.
It’s important to be thorough when picking the green beans. Work methodically down the row, harvesting every medium and large bean. This is what helps more beans grow afterwards and we don’t leave behind ones that get massive and fibrous. Enjoy!
We hope to see you at the next Garden Morning on August 30th. Join us in the field anytime 10am-noon, and we’ll stop for shared potluck meal at twelve. Come for either or both the garden time and meal. There’s two more this season, on the last weekends in September and October. But the August one could very well be the last one before a frost (crazy to think about, I know)!
Crops Available
* marks new this week
- 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
- Rainbow chard
- Thyme
- Tulsi holy basil
- Rosemary
- Scallion
- Blooming flowers: Calendula, celosia, cleome, echinacea, false sunflower, dahlia, daisy, gladiolas, gomphrena, salvia, statice, snapdragons, strawflower, 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.
