Memorial Day Share

The vegetables continue to grow this time of year, despite holidays, so we're harvesting today and for most folks we'll still be delivering to the usual pick up sites (there are a few special exceptions for office closures which will make our deliveries first thing Tuesday morning, but if you haven't already heard, it's probably not you). Today's share is a solid share of the standard spring fare: lettuce, radishes, turnips with greens and green garlic. The lettuce is Kweik, a lovely green butter head. We're starting to rotate through some of the more interesting lettuces at this point. The garlic is one of the two varieties we're growing, and is technically a hard neck, although the neck has yet to form and it is all tender at this point. Radishes are our standby, Pink Beauty, mild and sweet right now and the greens are good eating as well. The same goes for the turnips, Hakurei, which I'm sure you're all very familiar with by this point.

I'm looking longingly at a few new crops which might just make it into the shares soon. I'm keeping my lips sealed because I never know until the crop is actually harvested if it's actually going to make it into the shares. I'm just saying, there's a little more variety coming up soon. 

Meanwhile we're super busy in the fields getting all of the summer plantings into the ground. We're also setting up a brand new irrigation system which at some point will save us a lot of work, although it's a lot of work setting it up right now. 

Hope you're all having a great holiday!

Josh Volk
Vegetable Valet