We are definitely experiencing the harvest-weed-plant cycle of growing food. This week was another easy break: we got a holiday on Monday (an exception to the rule) and just had to put in a flexible 2 hours of bean harvest (can't keep ahead of'em... 2nd timeline coming on strong!); we had a CRAFT day on Wednesday at The New Farm www.thenewfarm.ca, who does some very cool stuff growing for restaurants and for The Stop, a progressive food bank in Toronto that offers cooking classes and community garden alongside charitable food donations; and on Friday we ended the day early for our usual Oh to Grow intern education session on pest management.
Between holiday, harvest, and education time we managed to liberate our carrots and parsnips from the grass-pigweed invasion, and planted our fall timelines of beet, carrot, turnip, radish, and greens.
The harvest gets better and better these days, with corn coming on strong (you can tell a ripe ear when it looks "swaaarthy" and feels plump... got it?)and the first few tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants coming off the plants. Cauliflower and cabbage also add some delectable diversity to the table.
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Just wanted to wish Andrea a belated b'day!Hope you had a good one, as for me I was pampered for the day...
ReplyDeleteHope you are having a great summer and all your hard work is paying off...enjoy reading of the crew's endeavours...I hope to see you when you come home and you can tell me all about it...
Paix et amour
DEB