CSA squash and basil.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
October: Pick-Up Day
If we thought last week's pick-up was a site for sore eyes, this week's is positively beautiful.
Sweet potatoes, peppers, bell peppers, eggplant, okra, zucchini, basil, yellow squash, saucer squash.
October: Pick-Up Day
This is our first real pick-up since July due to the drought in Texas. While it looks meager, we were very excited!
Onions, squash, bell peppers, banana peppers, okra.
September: Quesadillas & Cantaloupe
With the exception of onions, this cantaloupe is all we got for the entire month of September due to the horrible drought conditions in Texas.
August: Texas Drought & CSA Risk #5
August 26, 2011
Dear 2011 CSA Members,
The rain came so close to us, but we only got a sprinkle----at least it cooled off for a few hours which felt so good. Looks like the searing heat will continue right on into September with no rain in the forecast. The squash is finally dying as the week after week of this heat has stressed it so much that it can't survive any more. The good news is that we have the third crop just about ready to go into the field along with lots of cucumber seedlings and a second crop of cantaloupe seedlings. We just pray that surely the heat will diminish and this third crop of squash, cucumbers, and cantaloupe will produce a bountiful crop. The okra and sweet potatoes continue to flourish even in this heat--the okra should be producing soon.
I suppose that the heat must have caused the green bean seed to "rot" in the ground as they came up only very sporadically so we will replant soon--the seed was new seed so it should have been good seed. We know that green beans will not produce in temps much beyond 90 degrees, but I thought at least the seed would germinate. However, we got a good stand of purple hull peas. Just finished planting the cream peas last evening--14 two hundred and sixty foot rows.
We usually plant the fall turnip greens, mustard greens, radishes, and snow peas Sept. 1, but it looks like it will be much too hot this year--will have to wait until the temp moderates.
We will bring onions tomorrow. We will pick the last of the squash for Plano. We will bring the first of the cantaloupe for Plano and Coppell. Coppell will not receive any of this crop of squash, but will be the first to get the squash from the third crop. We have been eating the "runt" cantaloupe and the ones with bad places on them and they have been so sweet and flavorful. I just wish there were a lot more of them like last year--we filled the coolers with cantaloupe 2 weeks in a row last year, but they weren't sweet. Next week we will bring cantaloupe for East Dallas.
Again until the temp moderates and the fall crops begin to produce we won't use the coolers.
See y'all tomorrow,
Gene
The rain came so close to us, but we only got a sprinkle----at least it cooled off for a few hours which felt so good. Looks like the searing heat will continue right on into September with no rain in the forecast. The squash is finally dying as the week after week of this heat has stressed it so much that it can't survive any more. The good news is that we have the third crop just about ready to go into the field along with lots of cucumber seedlings and a second crop of cantaloupe seedlings. We just pray that surely the heat will diminish and this third crop of squash, cucumbers, and cantaloupe will produce a bountiful crop. The okra and sweet potatoes continue to flourish even in this heat--the okra should be producing soon.
I suppose that the heat must have caused the green bean seed to "rot" in the ground as they came up only very sporadically so we will replant soon--the seed was new seed so it should have been good seed. We know that green beans will not produce in temps much beyond 90 degrees, but I thought at least the seed would germinate. However, we got a good stand of purple hull peas. Just finished planting the cream peas last evening--14 two hundred and sixty foot rows.
We usually plant the fall turnip greens, mustard greens, radishes, and snow peas Sept. 1, but it looks like it will be much too hot this year--will have to wait until the temp moderates.
We will bring onions tomorrow. We will pick the last of the squash for Plano. We will bring the first of the cantaloupe for Plano and Coppell. Coppell will not receive any of this crop of squash, but will be the first to get the squash from the third crop. We have been eating the "runt" cantaloupe and the ones with bad places on them and they have been so sweet and flavorful. I just wish there were a lot more of them like last year--we filled the coolers with cantaloupe 2 weeks in a row last year, but they weren't sweet. Next week we will bring cantaloupe for East Dallas.
Again until the temp moderates and the fall crops begin to produce we won't use the coolers.
See y'all tomorrow,
Gene
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