Greetings from the Garden! This week's box has cucumbers, summer squash, beans, red or green cabbage, carrots, celery, green onions, kale, radicchio, Roman cutting lettuce, European yellow leaf, parsley, and bulb fennel.
Field Notes. We have been getting rain on a steady basis. Things in the garden and field are on the wet side. So Ken is working with and around the weather. Once the top of the soil dries out he is out cultivating in the cooler part of the day. And I am out picking beans after the plants have dried to avoid spreading any mold or fungus down the bean row.
It was a good year for Ken to plant green manures. The buckwheat looks great. And now we are hoping for a drier August so the sugars in the melons set and the winter squash can harden and cure once frost sets in.
From the Kitchen. We are in the other salad season. Now is when we have cucumber salad, tomato salad and cooked carrot and blanched kale salads. Tender greens are not fond of heat and just as the other salad vegetables start we usually have a lean spell on the lettuce.
Bulb fennel is an Italian vegetable we tried when we received a request to grow it. I tend to saute the bulb end of the stalks and add vegetables like beans - it adds an interesting almost light anise like flavor. The woman who requested the fennel sautes the bulb end of the stalks adds tomatoes and shrimp. That sounds good, too. I use the ferny ends on baked fish or chopped in cucumber salad or potato salad.
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