CSA week 13

We’ve been frolicking through the cover crop in the evenings. I lure the kids into the garden with the promise of husk cherries. We didn’t plant any intentionally this year but a handful of plants have come up in scattered places as volunteers. It gets both the kids moving through the garden in the later hours of the day when we are simultaneously trying to burn up any left over physical energy and avoiding aggravating their deteriorating mental energies. The garden is always most beautiful in the evenings maybe especially in the fall when many beds of plastic have been pulled and are replaced with a thick mat of green oats. Stetson watches us longingly waiting for our season to complete so he can be set free in the garden to browse on all our un harvested leftovers and the lush cover crop. I would always let him out around this time just putting up un-electrified flexi-net around un-harvested beds but he discovered this spring he could simply push through them to get what he wants so now he must wait. We’ve been spending some long days at our Conway planting and now the sweet potatoes and squash are all curing and there is maybe a day or two work up there to clean up.

In the share: please take 8 and PYO zinnias

• Sweet potatoes

• Butternut squash

• Acorn squash

• Delicata squash

• Sungolds

• Yellow onions

• Sweet peppers

• Cabbage

• Potatoes

• Lettuce

• Kale

• Eggplant

• Parsley

• Beets

• Leeks