Soaker

Wow. What a beautiful week!! Playing catchup in the gardens and feeling giddy. We received a beautiful rain on Thursday afternoon, showers throughout the weekend... and then Monday night brought a soaking rain. The kind of rain I have been dreaming about and wishing for! 

The excitement here this morning was kind of wild... oh what a little rainfall can do. It's like a powder morning, only better.  Mmmmmm. The smell of soggy pine forest was insane. I wish I could trap that scent in a bottle. So amazing. 

Ok ok... enough blabbering about my obsession with rain and the smell of soaked pine trees. 

All kinds of exciting things to report... the melons and winter squash are all weeded and mulched. This is big and has been on my list for a while. Next up... onions, leeks and beans. 

We harvested half of the garlic and have it hanging in the barn to cure. 

Some of the wheat planted early in the Spring is growing amidst the crazy weeds and looking gorgeous! Hmmm... currently scheming how to grow a lot of grain in the fields next season. Next season!? Whoa... lets slow down.

Tomatoes are ripening, sunflowers are blooming, melons are forming and and and... harvest details.

CSA Harvest - Week 9:

Salad Greens

Arugula

Chard

Carrots

Garlic

Onions

Tomatoes!!! oh yeah, it's on! 

Rhubarb

Cucumber or Summer Squash

Sweet Bell Pepper or Padrons

Herbs

Sweet Pea Bouquet

Sourdough Flavor of the Week: Plain 

CSA Harvest - Week 8

The heat of summer has arrived. It has been HOT in the gardens the last few days. The early mornings and evenings have been so dreamy and perfect though... mmm. 

I am excited to see a few clouds in the sky this morning. Maybe rain this afternoon? 

Tomatoes and peppers are coming! They're so close... next week?! We will have a few cucumbers, summer squash, pardons and shishito peppers this week. The harvests are about to get really colorful and fun :)

I'm off to harvest the following for this week's CSA Share: 


Salad Greens
Kale or Chard
Arugula
Fava Beans
Carrots
Green Garlic
Onions
Basil
Edible Flowers
Cucumber, Squash or Padron Peppers

Sourdough Flavor of the week: Plain

CSA Harvest - Week 7

Good morning! 

Hopped up on coffee and raindrops here. Mmmm. Fingers crossed more is on the way. 

We flipped a lot of beds this week. Out with the old and in with the new. Salad, spinach and carrots are all germinating. I have a few beds ready for seeding this evening... radishes, turnips, beets and cilantro. More head lettuce, kale and some fall brassicas are all ready to be transplanted as well... soon enough :).


The weeds are getting a little crazy (err really crazy) in the Montrose garden. So we spent several early mornings in the field with the stirrup hoe this week. The melon patch is looking gorgeous and we started tucking the melons in with a thick layer of mulch yesterday...  in hopes of keeping them happy and the field a little less weedy. 

Ooooo! Exciting news, I harvested kale seed yesterday! So much fun. I loved the sweet jingling of seeds in the dry seed pods.  This seed saving project happened by accident really... as most great things do. A section of kale overwintered in the garden and before I had a chance to harvest it this Spring it bolted and started flowering. The honeybees were enjoying the flowering kale... so we let it hang out for a while and now we have freshly harvested seed. Whoop! 

We also harvested chamomile and calendula flowers to start drying for future cups of tea. The scent is heavenly.

Harvest Details for Week 7:

Salad Greens
Kale or Chard
Basil (Italian, Lemon or Thai)
Carrots
Garlic Scapes
Mini Onions
Fava Beans!!
Asian Cabbage or Kohlrabi
Edible Flowers

Herbs (Chives, Oregano or Parsley)

Sourdough Flavor of the Week: Whole Wheat with Flax and Sunflower Seeds

CSA Harvest - Week 6

The past week was filled with a lot of fun, dancing and fireworks! We procrastinated a bit in the garden, spent few days goofing off and even snuck in a hike. Mmmmm wildflowers! 

The recent afternoon cloud cover is amazing! The dramatic temperature drop feels so good. Just when the heat gets to be a bit much the beautiful clouds roll in with a strong breeze and cool everything off. I imagine the plants enjoy this as much as I do. We have had a couple sprinkling rains here but nothing major yet. The suspense is building though... come on downpour! 


A few Sungold cherry tomatoes have been ripening! I squeal with excitement and pop them in my mouth like a kid in a candy store. So... tomato harvests are coming!! Maybe a few weeks out? 



Harvest details for Week 6: 

Salad Greens
Head Lettuce
Kale or Chard
Bok Choy
Basil or Cilantro
Carrots
Turnips
Rhubarb
Garlic Scapes
Edible Flowers

Sourdough Flavor of the week: Seeded (Flax, Sesame, Quinoa, Oats and Sunflower)

YUM!!! 

I look forward to seeing everyone this week. Until then... sending smiles and hugs. 

CSA Harvest - Week 5

July! Here we go. 

The veggies are growing like wild. I think if I sat still long enough I could actually watch the tomatoes grow... I pruned and trellised more yesterday morning. The first planting is setting fruit heavily and the second succession is catching up quick. 

The peppers are looking gorgeous and setting fruit and the eggplant have started flowering.


We spent a couple mornings weeding the gardens this week and finished planting the pickling cucumbers, flowers and seeding the next round of greens. Next up, fall brassicas!

Harvest details:

Salad Greens
Head Lettuce
Chard or Kale
Bok Choy
Chinese Cabbage
Turnips
Carrots!!
Green Coriander
Basil or Cilantro
Green Garlic
Edible Flowers (Violas and Nasturtiums)
Herbs (Lemon Balm, Mint or Chives)

Sourdough flavor of the week: Plain