Collards, lettuce, salad turnips, radishes, fennel and beets. We also had spinach and the first snow peas on the farm stand today, as well as a bit of chard and rhubarb. There was a mix of lettuce types so some folks will see a different type in their share. Both the fennel and beets were in the plan but for some reason I was still surprised that they were ready. I suppose the relatively mild spring is helping with that, and maybe even that my planning is base on good data from the past seasons. Next week should see a similar share but instead of collards I expect there will be chard. We’re finished with the spring spinach which didn’t do super well and only yielded enough for us to put it on the farm stand. We should have more peas on the farm stand, but I don’t think we’ll have enough for the shares. Some critters ate the tops off of all of the pea plants when they were only a few inches tall so I’m impressed that the plants have recovered enough to make any peas at all!
In the field today we tackled the tedious job of hand weeding all of the onions and they’re looking much better now. We also got more lettuce planted and the summer squash got hoed too. This week we’ve managed to get quite a bit of the summer plantings hoed and that should help save us time over the next few weeks, reducing the amount of hand weeding we’ll need to do and eliminating most of it.
We now have less than a month until our summer season starts and there are still a handful of shares available. If you haven’t signed up yet do it now, and if you know someone who might want one let them know they’re available.
Cully Neighborhood Farm 