Well, it's been quite a week! For those of you who don't notice such things, we had a surprise early freeze last week. Not just a light frost, but out at the store, where it's kind of in a valley, the temp actually got down below 32. We put a floating row cover out over things the last frost, and we re-set it for this freeze, but it wasn't enough for some things. I think we've seen the last of our nice summer's worth of eggplant. Most of the peppers were lost, and most (but hopefully not all) of our expected fall tomato crop bit the dust. Such is life as a farmer. We're thankful for the things we were able to save (including most of the liana beans and summer squash) and all the fall-type things that were happy with the frost (all the root crops and greens). There's a reason for growing seasonal produce!
We haven't finished picking for tomorrow, but it appears we will have:
A few hot peppers
Lots of yellow squash and zucchini
Turnips and greens
Collard greens
Radishes
Liana beans
Swiss chard
Spinach
*Lots* of small pie pumpkins - speaking of which I need to post a great recipe for pumpkin pie made from fresh pumpkins on the blog.
And...are you ready for fresh salad! Our fall lettuce planting has begun to produce! We have spring-mix type lettuces, and a micro-greens mix (awesome super-baby greens made to be eaten raw as salad)! And there will be lots of it coming in.
So be sure to stop by and put something fresh and green on your table!
