Catalpa Ridge News–Volume 18 No 10–Week of August 12, 2013

Another Rainy Week !

The heirloom tomatoes are finally starting to come in and we harvested most of the heirlooms right before the rain. Since the heirlooms are thin skinned they will crack if they take in too much water at once. This also happens to other crops as well such as the cabbage.

 

Our drainage ditch overflowed due to the rain and flooded the round field which has been out of commission all season anyway. In the greenhouses we had brooks flowing in each aisle. Farmer Rich and Michael worked on keeping dry during the deluge and the girls decided to stay home for the day and make it up over the weekend.

Our stunning pepper harvest (beautifully arranged by Ali):

 

 

Franklin Greenhouse Report: The broccoli raab is up and some Oriental greens are schedule for next week’s harvest. The Oriental eggplants are producing well and are filtered into the different drop-offs each week.  The celery is close to being harvested and looks like it will be a nice crop.

From the Fields:   The zukes and cukes will now start showing up sporadically as the original plants are shutting down and the new plantings will be coming on board soon. Microgreens in this week’s harvest are thinnings from our planting in the field from three weeks ago. They will include baby radish and baby turnip greens. This will make a nice addition if you are making a salad from the romaine lettuce you are getting this week.

Fruit Report: Finally peaches are here. The fruit crop from our neighboring orchards have been slow this year. The variety this week is Redhaven.

Animal report:  Luckily it has been quiet in the fields. Only a few deer cruise around the outside of the fence and none have broken in. Hopefully it will stay that way.

Weather report: We unfortunately had a very rainy end to the week with a total of 7” of rain between Thursday and Friday. We also heard other farms in the area getting at least 5” of rain and the Farm & Horse had their share of rain causing muddy parking.  

The seeded transplants are ready to be planted in the field; broccoli. lettuce, chickory, escarole, cucumbers and zucchini to name a few.

The whole back field was planted on Thursday (before the rain) with:

Lettuce 2 varieties	Spinach	Peas for sprouts
French Breakfast Radishes	Golden Ball Turnips	Tendergreen Mustard
Maruba	Fava Greens	Beets
Chard

The previous planting New Zealand Spinach failed so that bed was replanted with the chard.

Wow – Our Carrot Harvest. That sure is a nice pile of carrots!

Upcoming Events

Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting – Hoboken Historical Museum – 1301 Hudson Street
August 25th 1-5 pm
Farm Fresh Seasonal Produce for sale as well.

August 12th  - 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.
Recipe Links
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom Delivery
Hoboken Midtown Delivery
Hoboken West Delivery
United Synagogue of Hoboken