Collards are in and more to come

We’re starting the collards, three varieties: flash, champion, and McCormack's green glaze. Two are modern varieties with different growth characteristics – I’m covering my bases. If it’s warm there will be collards, and if it’s cool, there will be collards. And the glaze is heirloom from the early 19th century. On the left you see farm volunteers working with collards in the greenhouse.

I’ve actually planned in extra collards, more than we would need for just the members, because I grow extra for Big Fresh Cafe in Framingham. I also started the cole crops, including cauliflower. This variety is the white variety. We’ll be doing purple and orange toward the fall.

I've started two broccoli plantings so far, with six planned for the entire season.

This last week I also started the peppers--sweet ethnic peppers, and bells. We’ll be planting orange bells, yellow bells, and red and green bells. Hhot peppers will be seeded this week. One of the changes from last year to this is no Thai dragon peppers— discontinued by the seed company. We’re replacing them with Joe’s Long Cayenne pepper.

HEY, PROSPECT MEMBERS! We still have limited shares for sale on all pickup days; however, some days will need to be closed sooner than others so it behooves people to get in sooner rather than later, if they want their preference of pickup day.