Potatoes, romano bean, cucumbers, sweet onion, summer squash, tomatoes and lettuce. We dug the last of the potatoes today, a bit earlier than planned, but they were ready early probably as a result of the warmer than usual April and cooler May which was perfect conditions for them. The yellow potato is German Butterball, a potato with really great flavor and texture. The red fingerling potato is red all the way through and is called Amarosa. It was bred here in Oregon and has been a personal favorite of mine since I first trialed it before it was even released to the public 20+ years ago. These are both great keepers so if you don’t have plans for them immediately they can actually hang out in a cool, dark place for many, many months. We probably didn’t give you enough of them for that to actually happen, but it is possible. Almost as exciting as the potatoes are the first of the tomatoes, and there will be many more of these to come in the next month or two. Cucumbers are peaking so gorge on those while they’re here, same with summer squash. The fresh sweet onions will be here for a week or two and then we’ll start to transition to cured onions which will store better. Again, we probably don’t give out enough of them to require long storage, but it will be possible with our later onion and shallot varieties to keep them on your counter for many months if you don’t use them right away.
We squeezed in the last planting of winter beets today and radicchio is scheduled to go out into the field on Thursday. We also kept training the tomatoes and cucumbers on their trellises and cleaned up some weeds from around the eggplant (coming soon to the farm stand!) and peppers. Last Thursday it was nice to have an overcast morning and a little cooler temperature. Even though the actual temperature wasn’t as hot as it was earlier last week, the full sun all day made it feel like late summer day with really intense sun. A lot of the summer crops will be enjoying the sun, we just need to make sure they keep having enough water to take advantage and grow well.
Cully Neighborhood Farm 