Time for Heirlooms!
Tomato Tuesday – The harvest of the heirlooms continued this week. Japanese Truffles, Brandywine, Vintage Wine, Striped German, Yellow Brandywine, and Carolina Gold are some of the varieties that will be mixed into the delivery of heirloom tomatoes this week. More to come as the plants are doing well.
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| Lisa Exhibiting her Brown Swiss dairy cow | John exhibiting his Jersey dairy cow |
News from NJ State Fair - John placed second in his division for exhibiting his Jersey dairy cow and Lisa placed first for exhibiting her Brown Swiss.
Franklin Greenhouse Report: The microgreens planted last week weren’t ready for delivery this week but hopefully will make next week’s delivery. The husk cherries should start to make the deliveries. A large planting of basil was started, as you can never have enough basil. Up and growing are the China Rose radishes, but the Oriental Greens aren’t doing well.
From the Fields: The recent rain has helped the field crops immensely. The recently seeded beets, Daikon radishes, turnips, mustard, cilantro and Cherry Belle radishes are among the crops that have benefited from the rain. The sorrel in the back field should be harvested for delivery next week or the week after. We planted 2000 leeks in March, but they appear to be a crop failure which is a disappointment. The problem with them has been the wild weather. We had planted them early, and then it got cold so they probably thought that it was winter, then it got warm again and they started to flower, which isn’t good. We did pull the flower buds off in the hopes that we would get some leeks but that doesn’t appear to have worked.
Our plantings of tomatoes, zucchini and cucumbers continue to produce well, both the original and secondary plantings. We lost another planting of lettuce but the subsequent planting is coming along well. Needless to say the kale keeps cranking along and the eggplants are coming in. The newest planting of chard is almost ready for harvest.
After the harvest on Sunday morning, the crew was ready to perform some field work, especially some weeding. The recent rain not only helped the field crops, but also accelerated the weeds. We needed to take the veggie beds back from them so that the veggies don’t have to compete for water and nutrients.
Weather Report: About 1” of rain fell during the past week. There was a threat of hail last weekend but fortunately no hail fell over the farm. If it did hail there would have been no kale this week! There have been scattered thunderstorms throughout the area. When they move over the farm the crew holes up in the greenhouse and cleans garlic until the storms pass.
As we get ready to watch the meteor showers we are reminded that this month there are 2 full moons, one was on the 1st of August and the second will be on the 31st. This is a once in a “blue moon” event occurring approximately every 2 ½ years and is known as a Blue Moon.
Animal report: The fences continue to keep the animals on the outside with only minor problems occurring inside the fence, namely the rabbits. The sparrows, our “air-force”, are in control of the insects, the most natural way for our bug control.
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Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting – Hoboken Historical Museum – 1301 Hudson Street
August 26th 1-5 pm
Week of August 13th - Pick of the Week: click on the links below or to the right to bring you to the delivery specific to your pick-up location. Deliveries will be of similar variety & poundage, but may contain different items at anytime during the season. Occasionally, some crops are ready to harvest but not enough to deliver to all our drop-off locations. What we do is start to filter them in each week to a different drop-off until there is enough to delivery to everyone.
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