The Goodness of a Fresh Tomato - Week 9 of the Moon Bear CSA

The Cosmic Light of Tomatoes

Hello Moon Bears,

Although it may not feel like it, Fall is on the way. How do I know? We are slowly retiring large swaths of garden beds this month and planting them with cover crops. We sow legumes and buckwheat and crimson clover. After these mature we till the cut stalks back into the earth. Besides our own compost, and adding micro-nutrients/minerals, this is how we add fertility and soil structure into our clay.

This week we harvested another record breaking cucumber crop. Sixty pounds from about ten plants. The lemons cukes are the best.

Filling Your Boxes on Thursday Morning

Garden Cat Patrolling the Perimeter

On the Menu this Week for a Full Share:

• Lemon and Armenian Cucumbers
• Rainbow Chard
• Nantes Coreless and Imperator Carrots (Sweet)
• A Surprise Find of Salad Lettuce from the south field
• Plums
• Golden and Detroit
• Russian Fingerling Potatoes (More Next Week)
• Cabbage
• Baby Turnips
• Radishes
• Collete, Golden, Eight Ball and Mystery Zucchini
• Pear-Pearl Drop Tomatoes
• Big Heirloom Tomatoes

Next Week we will have Acorn Squash.
Spaghetti Squash is almost here too.


Thanks for Supporting Local Sustainable Goodness.
We are grateful for you.

Rick

(c) Copyright Rick Sievers, Moon Bear Produce, August 2014