This is one of the sunflowers that we planted for Chef Chris. He has culinary plans for them, so we’ll enjoy the flowers until he needs them. The flowers are short, so it’s easy to get great photos.
We have summer squashes and cucumbers galore. Sorry to keep flooding your walk-in with them, but ’tis the season. Use them lavishly while you can. Tomatoes are a little slower to get going this year, so be patient another week or so, and then we’ll flood the kitchen with tomatoes.
We’ve spent a good portion of our time this week harvesting honey. As you know, this is a multi-step process. We’ll start bottling the honey and delivering it regularly.
Some vegetables have slipped past our attention. One of them is leeks! They are not flamboyant and therefore have been overlooked. Don’t order from the outside for a while; we have plenty ready. The other hidden vegetable is eggplant. The plants are robust with lots of leaf coverage which is good for hiding the fruit. We have some available when you need some.
One thing I haven’t talked about yet is our corn experiment. Our corn is wind pollinated. That means it yields a better production from a block planting. We’ll see if this “block” works or not. At any rate, the corn is tasseling, and we can see where the ears will appear. This is pink popcorn, so we’re hoping for a decent crop.
The peppers are looking good. We’ll be harvesting Gypsy, Shishito, and Padron peppers today or tomorrow.
Come to the Garden to see what else we have going on.
