Category: Harvest - Page 3

Volunteers!

23 Feb 20225 Aug 2012 by Mike (tfb)

Volunteer cherry toms – weed toms, really – ahead of this year’s planting. Cool. Not sure if these have crossed, we had many varieties planted close together last season. These are not hugely sweet, instead, super little bursts of mildly … Read the rest

Rinse station icon (the white plastic laundry sink)

13 Mar 201622 Jun 2012 by Mike (tfb)

Friday is harvest day and we turn to the almost iconic white plastic laundry sink as veggie washing station. It’s a one-tub day today, with only beet greens to hydrocool (sometimes dunking in water is to wash off dirt, usually, … Read the rest

Parsnip root flashback

19 Apr 202220 Oct 2011 by Mike (tfb)

This harvested parsnip root only hints at the massive root systems that plants have down there. Mature parsnips can root down to 9 feet (2.7m), and spread up to 3′ (0.9m) in the top 10″ (25cm) of soil. Other garden … Read the rest

Peppers turn color!

11 Dec 201127 Sep 2011 by Mike (tfb)

Red and orange peppers! It’d be nice if this was a normal sight, but with our short season and often as not inconsistent heat and sun—peppers love decent heat—peppers that fully turn color are fairly unusual in this market garden. … Read the rest

Pumpkins in!

19 Apr 202214 Sep 2011 by Mike (tfb)

Brought in our compact collection of pumpkins today, ahead of likely frost this weekend. Never been big on pumpkins as far as quantity, but they are fun to have around. This year, some standards like Connecticut Field, a bunch of … Read the rest

Beautiful bok choi

21 Sep 20119 Sep 2011 by Mike (tfb)

Friday harvest. Each week, there’s usually one crop that kinda catches my eye: a perfect first cut of baby lettuce, lush green onions with straight white stems, or today’s chunky, crunchy bok choi (aka bok choy, pak choi). The variety … Read the rest

Some winter squash

8 Sep 20117 Sep 2011 by Mike (tfb)

Brought in the first of the winter squash, an early variety of butternut (called…Early Butternut), Uchiki Kuri (orange, Japanese Hubbard-type), acorn and pasta. We didn’t grow a lot, a few 50′ beds, mainly for the weekly harvest shares and personal … Read the rest