It's Week 6 of the CSA, and the garden is trying so hard to wrap things up for the season...we've been harvesting and pulling up plants and Will has been tilling and plowing; this has gone on for several weeks now, since our Great Beanapalooza two weeks ago. We try to shoot for a 9-week season, but sometimes the garden says 'excuse me, but I think it will be 8'. As always, we are winding down to the last couple of weeks and there will be melons and eggplants and cucumbers and hot peppers- the great hangers-on of a late summer garden. The squash will linger a while (particularly since we planted more of them along the way!) and there are field peas that have yet to bloom - and it's looking like that event will be a post-CSA one. The loofas are still in a flat - the very very last flat to be dealt with - and we'll build a fence behind the barn and set them out. The herb beds look like they will hold out and stay beautiful long past the season...one the one hand, I love to work out there and enjoy the rows and rows of herbs - but still, so much never gets harvested and thats a shame in a way. That's a problem for another day.
In the meantime, we work all week and work and visit with our CSA members Friday nights and Saturday mornings and everyone seems quite happy with their experience (and their weekly haul). Some have been bringing eggs to sell or to just give us (lucky us)
...but everyone is showing the wear and tear of the season - all are tired. More later....the great weekly cleanup is underway while we try to put things to rights - the tablecloths are in the dryer, the carport has been hosed off...and of course Will is out there weed-eating because he just can't help himself...after lunch it is most definitely nap time.
...for some.
It's Week 6 of the CSA, and the garden is trying so hard to wrap things up for the season...we've been harvesting and pulling up plants and Will has been tilling and plowing; this has gone on for several weeks now, since our Great Beanapalooza two weeks ago. We try to shoot for a 9-week season, but sometimes the garden says 'excuse me, but I think it will be 8'. As always, we are winding down to the last couple of weeks and there will be melons and eggplants and cucumbers and hot peppers- the great hangers-on of a late summer garden. The squash will linger a while (particularly since we planted more of them along the way!) and there are field peas that have yet to bloom - and it's looking like that event will be a post-CSA one. The loofas are still in a flat - the very very last flat to be dealt with - and we'll build a fence behind the barn and set them out. The herb beds look like they will hold out and stay beautiful long past the season...one the one hand, I love to work out there and enjoy the rows and rows of herbs - but still, so much never gets harvested and thats a shame in a way. That's a problem for another day.
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