Day 51

Oh yes!

In our CSA box:

-1 pint strawberries

-2 heads lettuce (Burge and Crystal Organic Farm)

-4 baby onions

-1 bunch arugula

-1.5# mixed Zucchini and Zephyr Squash

-1 bunch radishes (Crystal Organic Farm)

-1 large Pac choi OR 3 baby choi

-1 bunch Broccolini

-1 bunch mixed herb and flower bouquet (may contain: sunflowers, garlic flowers, zinnia, thai basil, cilantro, and/or borage)

Excitement today! We started by harvesting asparagus and strawberries and I think it's the last week for both. I know, I know I've been saying that forever, but I mean it, promise. After we pinted and bunched everything we set up our assembly line for 80 CSA boxes (us included :)). Everything came together nicely and it was a full box!

After lunch Cory delivered the boxes to drop off locations and got pulled over for stolen vegetables. Okay, expired registration I was trying to spice things up. So while Cory was getting in trouble with the law, we were thankful there were not any farm police because we all would have been arrested for neglecting our carrot rows. They were out of control. I'm here to tell you about thinning out carrots. "But I can't thin out carrots Kathy, it's too hard I don't know what to do." Shut yo mouth, anyone can do this, in fact it's therapeutic. You find some close together, carrot buddies, and you pick about every other one. Pick out the small ones to leave the big guys room to grow. I like to leave about a dime size around the individual carrot. Think like a carrot, you like your friends but not that much, everyone needs space.  Later you can do a second thinning and leave about 2 inches.

Zinnia's that went home with us :)

Daniel and I weeded the Okinawa Spinach and I found a frog which Daniel caught. I'm still getting used to seeing foxes, deer, also working and puppies showing up licking my face, it just doesn't get old. What does get old is weeding, quite the ongoing battle. Mostly hand weeded today because these weeds were so scary the wheel ho took one look and said nice try. We finished out the day checking out the coming soon to a field near you plants and admiring the blackberries. These blackberries are thornless, the thorns are actually called prickles but that sounds too pleasant, like tickles and thorns ain't nothing like tickles!

Gotta love carrot thinning day, these guys sure do!