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That's what happens in the middle of the summer. Nothing leafy, everything fruity. All the vegetables come from a flower, just about, and they love heat. Tomatoes and eggplant, beans and cucumbers. The kind of food you know how to cook with your eyes closed. But the colors are beautiful, so keep your eyes open. We have emptied the fields of all the spring crops, so the farm is looking sort of empty. The tomato family only takes up about a half an acre, and we don't plant them all together, so it doesn't look anything like California. The winter squash covers over half an acre, and that is one solid field of bushy giant plants. Lots of summer cover crop in the fields that are resting.
The one spring crop that is still in the ground, ready to be harvested, is potatoes. We dig about three beds a week, and this is a record-breaking season. We planted 800 pounds of seed potatoes in early April and we are on track to collect up almost 10,000 pounds. Usually we would feel good if we had half that many. After we dig them, we let them rest at room temperature for a few days, and then we start to move them through the coolers. First the tomato cooler (which is somewhere around 60 degrees) and then a few weeks later they move into the cold cooler where we can store them for late fall and winter.
It's like being a squirrel, always thinking about what we can stash for the winter. We don't grow much that will last that long. Our climate is really too humid for us to grow sturdy, long-lasting winter squash. Our winter coolers will have sweet potatoes, potatoes and carrots, if we succeed. But you really can live on that, along with the canned tomatoes and chopped frozen onions.
But here we are in the middle of summer, so eat all the fresh tomatoes you can, and forget about the rest of it. Everything comes and goes so quickly. Enjoy the easy vegetables that barely need anything but salt!
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