We have made it through a week of 100 degree days with the aid of a lot of water. The only heat casualties seem to be this week’s planting of micro-greens, and some of the winter crops that we had to transplant. We lost about 5% of them. But that is exactly why we always over plant and over-transplant, so we can absorb losses.
We started harvesting our next planting of cabbages. As you can see from the photo, they are the pointy headed varieties. The purple cabbage seed is sought after so this is the first year we have been able to grow some. It grows a very dense head. We have quite a bit left to harvest.
I warned you last week that we were hovering on the brink of massive harvest time. That time has arrived. We are harvesting summer squash every other day. We picked the first harvest of beans. This year we are growing a different purple filet bean. We’ve always grown a bush variety in the past. I decided that I was done picking bush beans and was on a quest to find a purple pole bean. This variety, “Carminat”, is early and has a far superior flavor to our previous variety, “Velour”. I’m cautiously optimistic that my days of picking bush beans are history!
We are harvesting tomatoes twice per week. They have just started, but there is a bountiful harvest soon to come. The Jory variety produced a 1.5 pound tomato! What is the rest of the season going to produce?
We’re harvesting Gypsy and Padron peppers once per week. They are ripening nicely.
We were able to harvest all of the available lettuce before it became bitter from the heat. Next week, we will remove the plants because we have more transplants to replace them. This time around we’ll have some of the baby romaine heads.
Sharpen your knives, pickle season is upon us. We harvested pickling cucumbers earlier in the week and some wonderful slicing cucumbers today.
When the weather cools this coming week, come on out to see what else we have growing.
