Hoboken Tomato Tasting - Sunday
The 8th Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting @ the Hoboken Historical Museum is SUNDAY. We’ll have over 30+ varieties to taste as well as farm-fresh produce for sale. Hope to see many members there. It is always great to meet CSF members we have never met before as well as see many of you we have been seeing for years. Always a fun event! The tasting is from 1-5 pm.
It was a beautiful day to harvest potatoes on Sunday– and harvest we did! We harvested blue potatoes with the help of CSF members. Last harvest we dug with pitchforks in hand and this time we attached a small plow to the back of our small tractor to break up the soil and then harvested the potatoes. This turned out to be very efficient and saved a lot of time. Thanks to the members who helped!
Weather Report: After the last rain, the fields turned up very dry. We had to run irrigation to keep the turnips going. Looks like it will be raining all week this week – which is needed. The temperatures have turned very cool which will slow up the warm weather crops such as tomatoes & eggplant. Not unusual for this time of year, as it is approaching the end of August!
What’s Up & Growing: The red mustard and some tender green mustard is sprouting. The white carrots have not germinated yet, but they do have some time. The next planting of beets has just started to sprout. We hope they will come up with the coming rain. More lettuce & Chinese cabbage is slated to be planted this week.
From the Fields: We lost a delivery of spinach as it bolted. As you notice in tonight’s delivery the heirloom tomatoes are more plentiful. There are some problems, but overall the remainder of the season looks good. The new planting of zucchini is coming along.
Animal Report: It looks like we have a gourmet groundhog who is selectively sampling many of the crops. This week he hate the red amaranth, the rest of the broccoli he didn’t finish last week and appears he is developing a taste for heirloom tomatoes. Farmer Rich can’t find where he is breaking in. There must be some area of fencing in need of fixing.
Corn Report: The sweet corn in tonight’s delivery is from a neighboring farm – Green Valley Farm. They use IPM technique and only spray when necessary. Farmer Adam’s corn (which was no-spray) was lost to striped cucumber beetles eating the tassels of the corn, therefore it could not pollinate so we could not delivery any of his corn.
Fruit Report – Nectarines –Freshly picked from Windy Brow Farm.
Upcoming Events:
· August 26th – 8th Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting – Hoboken Historical Museum
· September 8th – 6th Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting – Ramsey Day
· September 15th – 3rd Annual Garlic Day @ the Arboretum-Frelinghuysen Arboretum – Morristown, NJ
Pick of the Week: Click on the link below (or on the right) for your drop-off location. This time of year the deliveries will be the same in pounds & variety but may include different items at each location.
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