Greetings, Beausol locavores:
Well, we are half-way through the season. I hope you have enjoyed the produce so far. There is much more in the fields and headed towards your tables.
Last week you received half of your total share of the potato harvest. This week you will receive the second half.... so ration them for a bit. Last week, you received Rose Gold, All Blue, and Carola. (I promised Butte instead of the Carola, but realized too late I was filling the shares with the wrong variety. Doesn't matter... They are similar, but the Carola is a more productive substitute for the popular Yukon Gold potato.) Too bad the harvest was late this year, otherwise you could have had a patriotic "red, white and blue" picnic for Independence Day.
Carola is a yellow skin, yellow flesh potato developed in Germany good for baking and frying.
Butte (pronounced like the geological formation) is high in Vitamin C and protein. Great baked, mashed, or fried. A nice russet potato. Red Cloud is a dark red skin and white flesh potato. It is very dry and delicious baked or boiled. Russian Banana Fingerling (one of our favorites - we like to cut them into pieces about 3/4 to 1 inch long and bake/"oven-fry" them, coated with a little olive oil) long and narrow, yellow skin and flesh tubers are exquisite baked, boiled, or in salads. This heirloom gourmet variety was probably first brought here by early Russian settlers.
We caught a total of about an inch of rain this week. Just about right. The crops really responded to the natural watering. (Of course, well water is natural also, but nothing beats rain!)
We put in another batch of summer lettuce. It should be ready about mid August. We also started another batch of dill, cilantro, squash and beans.
The edamame is finally ready to pick and the snap beans are starting to bloom. The eggplant is beginning to ripen as is the okra. The really weird thing about the okra is: I haven't seen a single
flower! It seems to be jumping straight from bud to fruit. There are Anaheim peppers (used in making chile rellenos) ready to pick also.
As you may have noticed last week, the tomatoes are also ripening in increasing numbers... finally! There is not much else to report... except we will have lots more summer squash for you again this week also.
So the shares will contain potatoes, squash, tomatoes, mild jalapenos, Anaheim peppers, edamame, basil and herbs ( the full shares should get eggplant, cucumbers and okra - I think in a week or two everyone will be getting all three). The flower bouquets will contain zinnias, gomphrena, ornamental grasses, gladiolas, and celosia.
See you soon.
Harry
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