Chard, tomatoes, sweet pepper, cucumbers, carrots, red shallots, lettuce. Peppers are starting to come on with the earliest being the Jimmy Nardello peppers, a very sweet, thin walled “frying” pepper. We’ve also had a few Liebesapfel (candy apple) pimento types on the farm stand and they may show up in some shares. The first of our roasting peppers are starting to ripens so you’ll start to see red and yellows of those, although maybe not until the first fall shares. The carrots in this week’s shares were overrun by weeds so they’re still pretty small. Weed pressure has been building and I’m working on strategies for dealing with that this coming year but at this point the carrots are one of several victims suffering from serious weed competition. Another victim are the sauce tomatoes which we’ve been having a few of, but are not really producing as much as we’d like for the farm stand and probably won’t ever this season.
In the field yesterday more weeding as usual. We also rushed to get the last of the small dry bean crop out for this year before the rain comes back later this week. And some of the last plantings for the winter crops went in, a direct seeding of mâche which likes to germinate in cooler conditions, something it looks like we’ll have for the next week or so.
The Fall season starts in two weeks for Schedule A folks and in three weeks for Schedule B. We have seven shares available on the B schedule – or, if you really need to be on the A schedule we could make that work. For folks who have already signed up, expect a detailed email on picking up those shares in the next week or two, depending on which schedule you’re on.
Cully Neighborhood Farm 