We’re finally starting to branch out from beyond just greens! While we all do (or should!) love our greens, it’s also nice to put some bulk in these shares. Thank you so much for your patience with us and with Mother Nature. And while our crops are starting to flourish in the heat, so are the weeds! We’ve been working like crazy trying to keep them from smothering our tender, annual crops. Those grasses and other weeds sure are well adapted to our farm.
In Your Share This Week
Lettuce – Black Seeded Simpson or Red Sails
Spinach – Olympia &/or Tyee – This is the last of the Tyee, and the first time we’re harvesting our 3rd successive sowing of spinach, Olympia.
Kale – This is Red Russian, our new spring sown kale.
Beets – Early Wonder Tall Top. These are an old heirloom variety; sources say they were introduced to the US in 1911. I think they’re called ‘Early’ because you can sow them early, not because you can harvest them early. We actually transplanted these on Earth Day, April 22nd; our first try at transplanting rather than direct sowing. YES – You can eat the greens! The greens are very nutritious. To minimize moisture loss in the roots, greens them off rather than cutting.
Salad Mix – 8-12 different varieties of lettuce.
Lavender &/or Oregano
Sugar Snap Peas (Parkrose Pick Up ONLY) These are the Sugar Ann peas sown a rare clear day back in March. They took about 100 days to get to this stage.
Umpqua Broccoli (Farm & NE Pick Up ONLY) This is an open pollinated broccoli that is also supposed to give us a healthy crop of side shoots after we harvest these first smallish heads.