While many folks are preparing to do final garden work this month, we farmers are tending 1000s of seedlings ready for Autumn planting. Cabbages, radishes, kohlrabi, turnip, fennel and green onion seedlings are lined up, in addition to direct-seeded carrots. Now the long weekend has passed, we're preparing beds in the market garden for them to go in: removing weeds, adding compost.
A small shift this year has been from pre-long weekend garlic harvest to early August harvest. The garlic wasn't quite ready last week, but soon it'll be time to dig, grade, bunch and hang it to dry. Our other alliums, the onions, dont look as good, it having been dry they haven't sized up much. So, we're tending the later onion plantings in hope of better yield. In intensive urban field setting maximum size per plant is critical to our yields meeting projected demand from our farm members and market eaters.
To those who picked up at our alternate long weekend location, the Barn, please tell us about your experience. Was it easy? Instructions clear? Or did you experience a problem?
