Early season harvest day
Fri, Jun 26, 2009 
Filed under Fieldwork, Harvest, People, Summer, Veggies
It’s a harvest Friday, second for the farmers’ market, and first for CSA, but the load is still light. After picking snap peas, we spent the day doing other field work. In the photo, Libby, Jordan and Michelle are hand-weeding the small strip of spring-planted garlic, and we spent some labor-intensive time thinning a 400′ (122m) of carrots, and several beds of beets (the thinnings were the beet greens harvest). In late afternoon, time to cut greens: spinach and mesclun. Plus a little parsley.
Checking back over the last four years, at this time, we had broccoli once, radishes usually, baby Swiss chard a couple of times. And, of course, garlic scapes. And, a couple of years, no peas yet. So, all in all, with the slightly slower planting schedule in this start-up this garden, and all the cloudy weather, we’re doing pretty well!
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Your produce looks great! I think I have your share of leaf miner this year, your beets and spinach are impecable.
Wonderful harvest after all your hard work! I’m sure it is much appreciated.
I am very late this year too. The peas are just plumping up, and the beans are barely six inches high. My squashes only have about six real leave, but they are doing great, thanks to tight beetle and powdery mildew control (baking soda does miracle).
The tomatoes are in flower, though, and some even bear tiny fruits. I am expecting a bumper crop of tomatoes.
Strangely, one thing that is early this year are the raspberry. My daughter picked a few yesterdays that were not-quite-ripe-but-almost yet. I am expecting we will start harvesting regularly sometime next week.