New Potatoes
We have new potatoes!
One of our favorite harvests on the homestead is digging up potatoes. Like all the other subsoil produce, it’s like opening a surprise gift. Every crank of the garden fork exposes us to satisfying spuds or depressing duds. Typically, potatoes are harvested after the plants above surface have died back and turned yellow, but digging them up prematurely and impatiently exposes “new potatoes,” with thin, almost nonexistent skin. This week, we’re digging up golden Kennebecs and red cobbler spuds. Because they’re new, thin-skinned & without any curing, they won’t have the infamous storage capacity of typical store- bought potatoes, but they’ll be creamier and deliciously fresh.
Included in this week’s CSA shares, in addition to your half gallon of potatoes, are the following herbs and vegetables:
Green Cabbage (new variety), Carrots, Peppers, Kale/Chard, Lettuce, Oregano, Cilantro, Eggs, and Flowers.
Our carrot supply is winding down. We will soon start seeding our beds for fall root harvests.
Our final variety of cabbage is firming up and we hope to get one to each of our CSA families this week.
Field greens are thinning a bit as the sun continues to scorch us. Expect the return of micro green varieties in July as we attempt to fight through the heat to keep options for salad greens in rotation.
Our peppers are continuing to show off. This week, we hope to include some Shishito’s- versatile peppers that take on some heat as they ripen from green to red. We will also include Hungarian Hot Wax Peppers to compliment our mild green pepper supply.
A few of our summer field crops continue to look disappointing due to our troubles with unexpected persistent herbicide residue, as we’ve discussed in previous emails. We are working through it.
We have decent rows of cherry tomatoes, Okra, Jalapenos & Anaheim peppers, bush bean varieties, and beautiful sweet corn stands. We are continuing to get squashes and melons in the ground. We’re getting into a tomato harvest routine, beginning with our sweet cherry tomato varieties. In the hoop house, we’re seeing our first mature cucumber fruit.
Thank you again for your support and feedback. We heard many encouraging words last week and are sincerely grateful.
Have a great week!
Erin & David