Friday, June 28, 2013

Picking tomorrow etc.

Hi Everyone,

We're going to wait until next week to open the blueberry field to picking. There's still more on the early bushes that you have been picking, but not enough at the moment to warrant a lot of pickers. There won't be a lot of the mid season variety this year, as many were replaced last year and are still small. The later season bushes are loaded and are beginning to ripen, but still mostly green.

There will be no produce available this weekend, but we believe the summer squashes and cucumbers may be ready by next weekend. We got excited yesterday as we spotted a red tomato in the tomato field. It shouldn't be to long before those delicious fruits are ready to go. Some of the first planted potatoes are beginning to die back, so that means the digging of the first spuds isn't far off. We will dig the garlic this coming week and hang it in the barn to dry for a couple of weeks. The garlic is really large in size this year.

 Speaking of large, we had a school group from the Montessori school in Jacksonville for a field trip this afternoon. We walked past the onion bed and I said, "Let's see what the onions look like!" I pulled one up and it was like a softball! Some of those will be available in the next couple of weeks. The kids weren't that interested, they wanted to go back to the blueberry patch....I wonder why.

Have a nice weekend.


Vicky and Steve

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