Week #10

Cherry or Paste Tomatoes  A small number of slicing tomatoes Cucumbers Sweet Peppers Eggplant Mustard Greens- (Red and Golden Frills) Loose Leaf Lettuce Greens! Sweet Basil ( 1/2 lb) Sweet Marjoram

Week #9

Beets w greens Cucumbers Green Bell Peppers (2) Yellow Gypsy Peppers (3) Basil (1/2 lb) Turnips Greens Slicing Tomatoes Green Beans (2 lbs) Calendulas Nastursiums  

Week #8

Zucchini Bunched Beets Kale Lettuce Greens Beet Greens Sweet Onions Summer Cabbage Lemon Balm Cucumbers Sweet Gypsy peppers

Week #7

Swiss Chard Baby Carrots Cucumbers Green Beans Whole Wet Garlic Zucchini Basil ( 1/2 lb) Flower Bouquet Broccoli

Week #6

Cucumbers Broccoli Sweet Basil Bunched Beets Carrots Purplette Onions Flower Bouquet Parsley Nappa Cabbage Crispmint Green Lettuce Red Sails Lettuce

Week #5

Green Romaine Lettuce Nappa Cabbage Green and Yellow Zucchini Bunching Onions Lacinato Kohlrabi Swiss Chard Sweet Basil ( 1/2 lb) Small Flower Bouquet

Week Six

Week Six newsletter Enjoy!

Some Midsummer’s Night Dream

I remember looking at the calendar on my grandma’s wall when I was growing up.  It was a cloth one she had printed up every year, with some standard picture above the dates – a blue jay, a plant, or some other pleasant scene.  I remember marking July 15 as the middle of summer.  Summer,

heat

We got some nice rain Monday night. 2.5″ – it came just at the right time, too, as we had started watering the gardens again. No standing water this time, everything soaked in, and the following heat is really making the nightshades (tomato, pepper, eggplant, potatoes) grow. They love hot stuff. It’s amazing, too, the

Eat More Kale

Kale is abundant this year – we have a few different kinds growing in the garden. What’s a family to do with this glorious green? Check out this site for 20 different kale recipes: http://allrecipes.com/recipes/everyday-cooking/seasonal/winter/kale/top.aspx Many are soup recipes – summer is not top soup season, so consider freezing some kale for the chillier months.