So many many vegetables

I'm not sure we have ever had this productive a garden - or this much luck with rain...not that we've had enough, but that we didn't have too much. I think Baton Rouge had 8 inches or more last week - we had 1/2 an inch. Lucky lucky us. Because of the threat, we had an 'all hands on deck' call last week and every single evening members showed up to help pull in the first planting of corn, all of the shell beans (red and horticulture) and the potatoes. oh yes...and the weekend before, all of the garlic! Any of these would have been ruined by a big rain and all of them came ready at the same time. Needless to say, our members stepped up to the plate and helped all of this happen - but it made for The. Longest. Week. Of. Farming. Ever. Not any time to add to this blog in the meantime, but I've manages to collect some pictures along the way: people and garden. So I'll just throw them out there for you to peruse!

...and now we still have 19 weighed bags of horticulture beans in the cooler...but our members (once again) are 'doing what needs to be done' - I see a flurry of emails about Baton Rouge Bean Delivery being formulated. Amazing. Go CSA Members!
And now, the beans and first corn and garlic and potatoes are all out of the field....it looks a bit blank, but actually it's nice for it not to be a jungle! You can walk between the flower rows and get to the tomatoes to pick them (and the cucumbers and the peppers and the eggplants). And the garden still looks healthy and productive.

and of course now we have QUITE the compost pile!

We spent Sunday making pickles and shelling beans and of course cooking...what a great season it's been so far.