Message from the farmers
Greetings,
This week we have the first outside field harvests of our head lettuces. They are quite spectacular, if I can say so quite honestly. The combination of cool nights and sunny days have given us great quality across the board on all the varieties.
For the Salad lovers out there, we have a great mix of soft leaf Boston Head and Red Oak Lettuce and the ‘Fresh Crunchiness’ of the Green Romaine. Hopefully it will keep you happy for most of the coming week. I plan to rotate the varieties over the next few weeks between the shares, so that you’ll have a sampling of all of them.
We are still in the midst of our heaviest planting time period. We have completed our summer squash transplanting and will start our mixed sweet melon transplants this week. I am trying a few new varieties which are different types of seedless watermelons and will let you know the progress of those as we get into the middle of the summer. These can be a bit tricky for production, so hold your breath on these.
With the absence of rainfall, even with the almost daily forecast of thunder storms over the past week, we are back to irrigating every day some part of the field. If it isn’t on one of the newly transplanted fields, then it is on one of the other fields containing small direct seeding of our other veggies .
Be well,
Fred & Karen
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