Dear KCSA community,
It’s the first of September tomorrow! Where has the summer gone? As we move into fall, the farm will start to get ready for winter hibernation.
As the weather cools and the days get shorter and shorter, more fall greens will be on the share. Mustard, mizuna, bok choy, kale and arugula will be making an appearance over the next couple of weeks. Our lettuce, napa cabbage, regular cabbage, and spinach are a little further off. And, if the timing works out, we should also have some minutina and claytonia (AKA miners’ lettuce) available in November. More on them later.
WHAT'S IN THE SHARES THIS WEEK!
SWISS CHARD, KALE, MUSTARD, ZUCCHINI, GARLIC, COLLARDS, EGGPLANT, ONIONS, PEPPERS, TOMATOES, & SUMMER SQUASH
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CHERRY TOMATOES, HOT PEPPERS, SHISHITO PEPPERS, TOMATILLOS, GROUND CHERRIES, FLOWERS, HERBS, & BASIL.
The only vegetables left to transplant outside are the last few successions of lettuce, dill and cilantro. We managed to get almost all of the last direct sowing completed. Unfortunately, the timing for our fall green beans did not work out. I’m sure you all remember the spring corn maggots? Well, the delayed replanting of our 1st succession of zucchini messed up the timing with the beans. They are frost sensitive and we basically ran out of time before we ran out of zucchinis!
And that's the only sowing we have missed all season. We have had a plethora of crop successes! It really has been a fantastic year so far. This should hopefully continue into fall, and in addition to all those greens mentioned above, we’ll have daikon and watermelon radish, turnips, beets, kohlrabi, broccoli, butternut squash and sweet potatoes. Can't wait!
Cheers,
Andrew
