Kale or chard, cucumber, yellow onions, summer squash, romano beans, tomatoes and lettuce. Thursday’s share will probably be similar, but may not have the romano beans and second head of lettuce, and if we get lucky there will be the first sweet peppers of the year. Usually I plan for just one head of lettuce in the shares but recently we’ve had excess in the field and I didn’t want it to go unharvested so there have been a number of days where two heads show up. I don’t think that will happen much more this year, but you never know. The kale is still a little small but it needed some initial clean up so I harvested some bunches of that and then went through the chard patch to get the rest. The chard is looking great right now after that little bit of rain and this cooler weather. Cucumbers and summer squash are slowing down just as tomatoes and peppers are picking up.
In the field today we got some more weeding done, tomatoes tied up, and seeded some salad turnips and spinach for later in the fall. With all of the recent planting and rain the weeds are going crazy! If we can knock them back within the next few days I think we’ll be ok but some of them are on the verge of outgrowing the crops, at which point it gets much more difficult to hoe them out. The other big task on the to do list is getting the dry beans and other seed crops out of the fields while it’s still dry.
Cully Neighborhood Farm 