Half-inch of rain - yeah!
The carrot and beet seeds we planted a couple days ago are settled in and all the plants can take a deep drink, especially the young cabbages we just planted that have been looking awfully wilted as we struggled to keep them watered. And except for taking water out for our hoophouse plantings, our pond level can stay where it is.
Now I might actually have to start mowing again ; )
Thanks for the recipes...keep em coming

lettuce mix

spicy mix

pea shoots
sunflower shoots
squash and zucchini
parsley
new potatoes
Swiss chard
kale
leeks
eggplant
tomatoes
cherry tomatoes
green beans
dragon tongue beans
tomatillos
green peppers
garlic
carrots (for real this time - last week it was actually too dry to even get the fork in the ground to dig them)
cabbage
sweet onions
shallots

Thanks to those who came out to make the potluck dinner a success.
We got a quarter inch of rain in the last couple days (not nearly as much as some of you in Elmira and Corning area, we are all too well aware!). But its better than nothing and as I was transplanting cucumbers yesterday my fingers actually did get muddy and not just dusty.

 Good thing to come.

Garlic triplets

Salad greens will be in very short supply this week due to the heat, dryness and our falling behind in our planting.

This week's available vegetables:

lettuce mix

spicy mix

pea shoots

 

sunflower shoots

squash and zucchini

parsley

new potatoes

Swiss chard

kale

leeks

onions

eggplant

tomatoes

 

cherry tomatoes

green beans

 

dragon tongue beans

tomatillos

green peppers

garlic

beets

 

carrots (small thanks to lack of rain)

cabbage

next week's expected vegetables:

all of the above plus sweet onions (walla wallas)

We are trying to move a potluck closer to our eater, hope you can make it!  On monday (july 16^th, sorry for the late notice) we will be having a community picnic following the grove park farmer's market in elmira. It will start around 6:15 once the market is over, and we have a few minutes to pack up our things. Please bring a dish to pass and come meet fellow CSA members, as well as grove park farmer's market shoppers, and other friends of the farm in the area! There will be a grill available, if that would help with the food that you choose to bring. You may want to bring a chair or blanket to sit on and something to eat from, though there will be some available for use.

Hope you can make it! The market and picnic are on the corner of walnut and 4^th streets in Elmira!

Liz (and matthew, too)

p.s. you can find us on facebook now, too!

 This is our table with our sunflower and pea shoots in trays. With the netting on top we'd thought we'd outsmarted the birds, chipmunks and squirrels. We realize this is extremely arrogant of us to think we are smarter than them because of course they are still getting under the netting and eating the sunflowers. Our next idea - try plastic around the legs to keep them from climbing up (the birds have been foiled it seems by just the netting).

No, Liz is not slowly turning into the Hulk. Neither does she have a weird skin disease. The green residue on her fingers is from pruning and trellising tomatoes

A picture of our pond a couple weeks ago. Now the level is only a few feet from the end of the intake pipe which is just below the white milk jug you can see on the surface on the right side of the photo. When the pond is full all of the land in the foreground of the photo is underwater. So maybe we'll be able to connect another piece of pipe to the end to get a couple more feet. The milk jug serves as a float to keep the end of the pipe out of the muck and debris on the bottom of the pond.

If you haven't already, you can check us out on facebook where we still have a small but growing presence.

This week's available vegetables:

lettuce mix

spicy mix

pea shoots

squash and zucchini

cucumbers

dill and parsley

new potatoes

Swiss chard

kale

leeks

onions

eggplant

tomatoes

green beans

tomatillos

green peppers

garlic

beets

next week's expected vegetables:

all of the above

a few cherry tomatoes

Here is an announcement from a fellow CSA member

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Contact Louise at (607)731-9270 or louisemariepaul@yahoo.com to

reserve your spot in one or more of the 2 hr demos listed below

BREAKFASTS in a snap! July 2, 11, or 20 10am or 7pm

WHOLE GRAINS in a snap! July 3 and 16 10am or 7pm

or July 10 at 7pm or July 12 at 10am

Share this with a friend! Lots of new demos coming soon! Plan to attend them all!

Garlic harvest

We will be harvesting our German White Garlic tomorrow (Tuesday) morning starting around 8:00. We would love some help if anyone is interested. Its just pulling garlic, loading it in the truck and then hanging it to dry. You'll go home with some garlic and vegetables treats.

We are glad everyone seems to be enjoying the pea and sunflower shoots. Liz has been working hard at perfecting the timing and growing and she's gotten pretty good at it!
The haricot vert green beans are looking really good - a nice rain (maybe tonight??!!) would make them grow even better but we can look forward to lots of bean picking over the next few weeks.
The squash and zucchini will now be offered as needed - they are now, as they say, coming out of our ears.
Muddy Fingers Farm has a facebook page. It has not been updated regularly but we hope that will soon change.

This week's vegetables

lettuce

lettuce mix
sunflower shoots
pea shoots
squash and zucchini
cucumbers
dill and parsley
new potatoes
Swiss chard
kale
garlic scapes
beans
green onions
baby leeks
eggplants
peppers
beets
a few tomatillos

next week:
same plus...
a few tomatoes
garlic