Heirloom Harvest

Garlic Planting Party

The weekend of October 14-15,  from 8 am to 5 pm -- both Saturday and Sunday -- Heirloom Harvest will be having a garlic planting party to plant the seed garlic for next year.

That's right: Next season's share will include garlic scapes in the spring and bulbs starting from some time in late July.

150 pounds of garlic is a lot to plant. This will be a last opportunity for those of you who have not completed your work hours to do so, and for everybody else, I need your help. This will also be the last Saturday workday for those of you who prefer to do your work on Saturday.

Planting will start that morning and continue into Sunday until the job is done. If rain becomes likely, we will reschedule. Please send me an email to farmer@heirloomharvestcsa.com indicating the day and time you will be there if you plan to attend.

Still to come

We’ll have bell peppers for another week; and there will still be more sweet ethnic peppers and eggplants. We still have another planting of leeks; several more of broccoli; and a lot of cauliflower that will wait until first week of October, probably. We will try to get one root crop per week in the shares – carrots or potatoes.

Other things we still have are lots of the greens, turnips this week and next week, and we will have parsley through September. We will have Swiss chard up until the first frost. And we have cabbage coming in October. Winter squash will be coming, but may be reduced due to a lot of rain and moisture this year, which can cause it to rot in the fields. The winter squash is scheduled to be given out in the last three weeks of October.

The Brussels sprouts are scheduled to be given out in the last two weeks. And there may be more onions and bush beans still to come.

End in sight

We know now when the harvest will finish out. The last Sunday pickup will be Oct. 22; the last Tuesday will be Oct. 24; the last Thursday will be Oct 26. We’ll be doing our usual large last week share that will include Brussels sprouts, parsnips, celeriac, and radishes.

Turnips

Editor's note: Had good success this week with some new recipes. Just now I made these Glazed Turnips and the fam spoke highly of them. If you have turnips still in the crisper drawer, like I did, I recommend them.