Busy week last week, no pictures...just trying to keep up. Actually hoping for a little rain soon, believe it or not. Otherwise we'll have to spend time putting together our irrigation system for the first time this year. We are hoping to not have to put it out at all this year!

Choose 7:
new potatoes
cucumbers (picklers and slicers)
kale
chard
beets (maybe yes, maybe not)
green beans
dragon tongue beans
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
summer squash/zucchini
parsley
green onions
sweet onions
eggplant (limited quantity)
carrots
cabbage
basil
baby leeks
lettuce mix
spicy mix
flour, whole wheat bread or all purpose
kidney beans

Planting cabbages for fall harvest (broccoli under the insect netting)

Kale, some stunted by too much rain this spring.
 
Choose 7:
new potatoes
cucumbers (picklers and slicers)
kale
chard
beets
green beans
lettuce heads
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
summer squash/zucchini
parsley
green onions
eggplant (limited quantity)
carrots
cabbage
basil
baby leeks
flour, whole wheat bread or all purpose
kidney beans

This week's expected vegetables.
Choose 7:
broccoli
new potatoes
cucumbers (picklers and slicers)
kale
chard
beets
baby kale
lettuce heads
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
summer squash/zucchini
parsley
green onions
eggplant (limited quantity)
carrots
cabbage
basil
baby leeks
flour, whole wheat bread or all purpose
kidney beans

Week 5

Red butterheads ready for market

This week's expected vegetables.
Choose 6:
broccoli
new potatoes
cucumbers (picklers and slicers)
kale
beets
garlic scapes
lettuce mix
spicy mix
baby kale
lettuce heads
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
summer squash/zucchini
parsley
flour, whole wheat bread or all purpose
kidney beans
black beans

Thanks for your patience as this season gets off to a slow start caused by a cold, rainy spring. But now it is summer!! Sorry for no new pics this week.
But I did learn this week that beet flowers smell like chocolate.

Week  4
This week's expected vegetables.
Choose 6:
green beans
cilantro
kale
beets
garlic scapes
lettuce mix
spicy mix
baby kale
lettuce heads
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
summer squash/zucchini
parsley
flour, whole wheat bread or all purpose
kidney beans
black beans

Week 3

Hey that look's like a weed! Yes it does look a lot like lamb's quarters, one of our most infamous garden weeds. And we had a hard time convincing ourselves to transplant these into our field as we spend a good amount of time ripping out lamb's quarters. But this is quinoa, a close relative of lamb's quarters. These we are just trialing for our own personal use. We'll see if we get any grain out of them.

Well the theme for this spring has been "please, no more rain" But we got more rain Friday. And this is the scene from many of our beds after the last thunderstorm...running water. Not good. This means no tilling and no planting. And probably lots of fun diseases like late blight and downy mildew, etc.

This week's expected vegetables.
Choose 6:
green beans
cilantro
kale
beets
garlic scapes
lettuce mix
spicy mix
baby kale
lettuce heads
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
summer squash/zucchini
parsley
flour, whole wheat bread or all purpose
kidney beans
black beans

Your ginger being planted

Your broccoli growing. It grew so much in the past week that the plants are about three times as big now. This picture was taken to note the stark difference between the plants under the insect netting and those outside the netting (some of which completely died, but mostly they are just smaller)

Expected vegetables for week 2
Choose 5 items:
lettuce mix
spicy mix
baby kale
lettuce heads
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
radishes
baby carrots
baby turnips
summer squash
parsley
flour, whole wheat bread or all purpose
kidney beans
black beans
vegetable transplants