Kale, celery, tomatoes, sweet pepper, beets and lettuce. The celery is just a few small stalks, good for cooking or chopping up to add to a salad. The sweet pepper pictured here is a “Liebesapfel” pimento type, but the peppers are very slow in ripening right now due to the weather so we’ve mixed up all of the varieties and some folks will see the long, thin walled Jimmy Nardellos, Some the pointy Stocky Red Roaster or Gatherer’s gold, and some the light orange Hungarian Gypsy Queens. Beets are also a mix of gold and red. The lettuce is my favorite romaine, Brown Goldring, and we had some trouble with bolting but even in their elongated form the leaves are still crisp and sweet. Thursday members got these last week so there will be something different in the Thursday shares. There’s also a head of red curly lettuce, which isn’t bolting, but did get shaded out and so some of the heads are a bit elongated.
Kind of ironic and predictable that we’d have lettuce problems now that it’s cooled off and started to get wet after so much hot weather. I had a CSA member ask me how we kept the lettuce from bolting all summer and what I should have said was, “luck”. Instead I said it had to do with experience and timing. It also has to do with our variety selections and watering schedule, but even with all of that sometimes we have trouble with it.
In the field this afternoon we did get to do a good bit of weeding, a little late on some crops, but better late than never (at least in those cases).
This is the final week of summer shares. Fall starts next week for some of our fall members, the week after for others. We’re currently full but have started a waiting list. I’ll be sending out emails in the next few days with details for all fall members so if you signed up keep an eye on your inbox for that.
Cully Neighborhood Farm 