The broccoli has been great and in full effect for the last few weeks.  We are doing heavy pickings from the main heads and side shoots, with lots more coming.

The first two plantings of cauliflower have failed, due to (a) gophers (b) freak super-cold snap at the end of april (c) freak super hot spell (100 degrees for 5 straight days) in mid May, which caused the curds to separate and be no good.  The third is looking good and hope to have that. In the future I don’t want to grow cauliflower.

Radishes have been so good, as has the daikon.  Spring mix and lettuce mix have been heavy hitters.  The kale and chard are really stepping it up right now and the peas are going to town.

Potatoes are flowering and they can’t come soon enough in my opinion.

There are hundreds of green, good sized tomatoes just waiting for the next hot spell to ripen up.  That is exciting.

Meanwhile, we just started picking summer squash and look forward to putting it in all of our CSA members’ mailboxes.

Carrots take a darn long time.

I don’t even dare dream of peppers until July comes.

Come on cucumbers.

I think our members are all well fed and turning green.

The farmers’ markets have been going well and we look forward to bringing the fan favorites to it, but in the meantime we are happy everyone really loves kale and radishes.

much love
andrew

The first boxes had: Daikon radish, salad radishes, kale, tat soi, baby stir fry mix, lettuce mix, broccoli, rosemary, oregano, dill and baby spinach. Next week it will be very similar, yet much more broccoli.  Carrots are still a couple of weeks away, as are beets, peas, cabbage, cauliflower and chard. We are gearing up for a maha (great) week at the farm, with many hundreds of row feet to be direct seeded.  We are getting 50 yards of compost to bolster the tilth and nutrition of the soil. … Read the rest of this article »