Week 11 Harvest Notes

Watermelon The melon patch takes up more than it’s fair share of space on the farm. The rodents and crows eat at least half of them about two hours before they are fully ripe. We spend a lot of time making sure the soil is warm enough and evenly watered enough to host melon plants effectively. And still, we carry on growing them every year because the experience of slicing into a fresh heirloom watermelon or cantaloupe is just irreplaceable! We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.  Once in a while a watermelon shows signs of ripeness without having reached peak sweetness. Let us know if you ever get a bad melon by emailing [email protected]. Its really helpful to have melon ripeness feedback:)

Marketmore Cucumbers As cucumber season begins to wane you may notice that there are fewer perfectly shaped ones and more that require peeling to fully enjoy. If you haven’t yet, try one of my favorite summer staples- chop your peeled cucumbers small and add to finely cubed tomatoes with lemon juice, salt and olive oil.

Zucchini The zucchini plants are finally beginning to slow down but we do still have some sizing up.

Eggplant We hope you were able to make good use of the eggplant bounty last week. We’ll continue to harvest them in smaller numbers for a few weeks.

Sweet Onions These onions are like a walla walla, they are sweeter than traditional storage onions.   

Garlic This garlic is fully dry and should store on your countertop for months at this point.

Tomatoes The numbers of ripe tomatoes are building! We grow a wide range of varieties so you’ll see yellow, pink, purple and red tomatoes in the mix coming up.

Sungold Cherry Tomatoes This variety is so sweet we love to just snack on them throughout the day in the field.

Basil This may be the last week of basil for the summer as the plants are beginning to lose steam.

Green Peppers We’ll have red and orange peppers before we know it, but in the meantime we can enjoy these gorgeous green peppers.

Parsley This herb can be dried down for storage or used fresh in tabouli, salad, or as a garnish.