Greetings, Beausol locavores:
Fall must be lurking in the woods. I have seen another monarch butterfly and the tulip poplars are starting to release their yellowing leaves. Now, a single butterfly does not a season change make, but that winged messenger and the leaves falling - especially since it has not been particularly dry this summer... at least not here at Beausol Gardens - does have harbinger qualities. Add in the winter squash starting to ripen, fewer lightning bugs over the fields at dusk, and the turkeys I think I hear and we may be able to discern a trend.
Yesterday, a set of gullywashers passed over. Through the afternoon, in three relatively short heavy downpours, we received more than 2.5 inches of rain. The fields were fairly thirsty as I saw very little runoff and no standing puddles this morning. We have, actually, been doing some irrigating recently.
I hope you enjoyed the cucurbits (cucumbers, melons and winter and summer squash) last week . I hope the melons were okay... as I mentioned last week I am having a hard time this year determining when they are ripe.
Fall must be lurking in the woods. I have seen another monarch butterfly and the tulip poplars are starting to release their yellowing leaves. Now, a single butterfly does not a season change make, but that winged messenger and the leaves falling - especially since it has not been particularly dry this summer... at least not here at Beausol Gardens - does have harbinger qualities. Add in the winter squash starting to ripen, fewer lightning bugs over the fields at dusk, and the turkeys I think I hear and we may be able to discern a trend.
Yesterday, a set of gullywashers passed over. Through the afternoon, in three relatively short heavy downpours, we received more than 2.5 inches of rain. The fields were fairly thirsty as I saw very little runoff and no standing puddles this morning. We have, actually, been doing some irrigating recently.
I hope you enjoyed the cucurbits (cucumbers, melons and winter and summer squash) last week . I hope the melons were okay... as I mentioned last week I am having a hard time this year determining when they are ripe.
I have to say this is one of my favorite times: pepper harvest! I REALLY like ripe sweet peppers. I recommend you collect, as you probably did with the summer squash, many recipes with sweet pepper ingredients - we'll have lots of peppers till frost... LOTS of peppers. We harvested about 250 pounds on Friday alone. The okra is coming in heavier now, so I think we can start passing some okra on to the half shares.
There's not much further inspiration this week, so we'll leave it at that for now. This week's shares will contain peppers, peppers and peppers, eggplant, okra, cherry tomatoes, basil, cucumbers, summer and winter squash and herbs. This week's bouquets will have zinnias, glads, tuberoses, gomphrena, celosia, and ornamental grasses.
There's not much further inspiration this week, so we'll leave it at that for now. This week's shares will contain peppers, peppers and peppers, eggplant, okra, cherry tomatoes, basil, cucumbers, summer and winter squash and herbs. This week's bouquets will have zinnias, glads, tuberoses, gomphrena, celosia, and ornamental grasses.
See you soon.
Harry
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