Spring Growth

Spring Growth

Monday, October 22, 2012

Farm week

Hello out there!

Winter squash! We've had a couple of questions about this crop. It failed dismally. We don't ever irrigate winter squash - it just takes too much land to grow enough for the CSA to make irrigation feasible. Usually it does great or at least pretty good. This year it didn't get rain at key times in its life, and the fruits suffered. For an idea of how bad it was this year compared to others, this fall we harvested 3 pallet bins of squash. Last year we harvested 11 pallet bins from the same amount of land planted. Pretty bad numbers. So, we have some squash right now, but it will only last for a week or so. It is also not very ripe, and small. There will be squash for about 3 weeks of the winter CSA. 

Vegetable Forecast: 
napa cabbage
cabbage
carrots - 
beets
potatoes
red onions
winter squash
tatsoi
spinach
chard
kale
radicchio
escarole/endive
fennel
greenish tomatoes
hakurei
celery
broccoli raab - not really raabing
arugula

u-pick:
all unlimited:
parsley 
raspberries - almost gone
tomatillos - LOTS OF AWESOME ONES!!!
kale
chard
dill
cilantro
big sunflower heads by road

See you around!

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