Posts Tagged ‘Striped German’

Midsummer

This is a fun time of year.  The CSA has rounded out to 30 members, and I like it there.  We have 14 weeks left, so not quite halfway, but close.  The tomatoes are producing well, and the heirlooms are making there way into the public scene.

As for tomatoes, we are growing “early girl”, of course, but we also have green zebra, black zebra, pruden’s purple, cherokee purple, black from tula and striped german.  They all produce fairly well, at least at the farm, even though their soil didn’t start out so great.

With our last heat wave, last week, at temperatures between 105-110 for four days, we had a lot of harvesting to do.  Ryan was living it up in Yosemite, along with Christin and Steph, two of our great volunteers.  So, Zoe, Andrea and I had  a lot of picking.  Andrea and I were harvesting at the farm until 10pm on friday night, mainly picking tomatoes in the early evening.  It was sweet.  A little bit rushed, but, nevertheless, sweet.

Now the melons are ripening also.  The first couple of rows, with charantais, two cantaloupe varieties, and an ananas variety, are producing such sweetness.  I forgot about the melons for a while, but now I remember exactly what is in that patch.  We should have melons ripening through mid-september.

All in all, I am truly pleased right now to see the farm.

And, as a contrasting viewpoint, I still wonder what the CSA boxes will have at the end of september.  Will the tomatoes hold up and keep producing through then?  Will our last cucumber plantings be producing then?  Will the squash hold out?

Stay tuned.

Andrew

July 8th