D&V Organics CSA
Week 7
It is feeling like we are well into Summer with the warm temperatures over the past couple of weeks, but we are still awaiting the arrival of our first picking of melons, tomatoes, peppers and a few other Summer items. With the cooler Spring temperatures we saw this year, we are seeing some later dates on the maturity of some items, so it looks like all we can do is keep waiting. Our sweet onions are looking nice and starting to gain some size, good enough to put into shares this week and we anticipate the first picking of watermelons in the next 7 to 10 days. After the untypical early-May frost this season, our first planting of tomatoes doesn't look quite as good as we'd like it to. The bulk of our early tomatoes survived that late frost, but the plants took a beating and resumed growing, however we are seeing some stunted growth and other physiological issues. Our tomato crop has, by far, the biggest labor and production expense when compared to other crops, but it has the potential for generating a large amount of income. So far, we've invested a good deal of labor into getting the crop to its present state, we are just hoping that it produces what we need it to. Farming is unique in that we can do things right and get the plants to a certain state, and then a weather event or series of events can dramatically impact our success. Each year provides its own challenges, we have to find the best way to adapt and keep moving forward.
Our harvest list for this week includes the following:
- Onion, yellow sweet - fresh, bunched sweet onions should be kept in the fridge for maximum shelf life
- Onion, Tropea - fresh, bunched, high sugar content, great raw or cooked
- Beans, various heirloom types - we'll be picking a variety of specialty string beans this week for shares
- Potato, New Red - gold interior, superior flavor
- Kale, various types
- Cauliflower, white
- Fennel
- Kohlrabi
- Lettuce, various types - getting too warm, so this will be the last until our Fall plantings
- Radicchio, round red type
- Escarole
- Carrots, bunched
- Zucchini
- Cucumber, various types
- Basil
- Cabbage, red and green
Enjoy,
Derek & Vicky
