Greetings from the Garden! This week's box has tomatoes, cucumbers, summer squash, corn, leeks, carrots, celery, greens - lettuce, cutting lettuce, mustard and mizuna, grapes, melons, and basil.
Field Notes. There is frost on the horizon. If not this week it could be up to a month away. Frost signals the end of some crops - basil and summer squash are the first to go, and the beginning of others. We will be digging potatoes and sweet potatoes and harvesting winter squash.
Work continues on the preparation for the mobile high tunnel. This weekend a young, muscular friend, Clifton came out and helped with brush and wood splitting, buzzing and stacking. This week the man with heavy equipment comes and start to set a level plane. Then Ken will begin work on putting down the track.
The sooner we can get the greenhouse up and running, the sooner the soil can start warming up! Progress!
From the Kitchen. With cooler nights I am using lots of basil - it won't take frost, so that will be the end for the season. Last night we had sauteed leeks, tomatoes, and LOTS of basil on pasta. I have also made more tomato salad with balsamic vinegar and olive oil, minced garlic and Lots of basil for a pot luck picnic.
Enjoy the summer squash, too, as that will die with frost. A friend is buying our surplus and grating it and freezing it for future zucchini bread.
With the cool nights, the greens are bouncing back, and the mustards are beautiful! I tend to saute a leek or onion, add the greens to wilt and dress with interesting vinegars. I am also getting back to morning soups as the temps drop over night.
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