09' CSA Journal Basket #13; Volume 2
Posted 8/13/2009 10:23am by Matthew and Allison Mills Neal.
CSA Journal Basket #13; Volume 2
August 12
What Genus Specie Varieties your basket contains:
1.) Summer Squash and Zucchini: Possible varieties would be Yellow Scallopini (yellowish green), Benning's Green Tint Scallopini (whitish green), Reve Dark Green Scallopini (dark green), Cocozelle Italian Striped Zucchini, and Golden Zucchini
2.)Cucumbers: Normal Sized Poona Kheera and English Green Finger's then small sized Poona Kheera, Marketmore, Green Finger and Crystal Apple
3.)Tiger's Eye Dry Bean (to be shelled and prepared like a dry bean)
4.)Dragon Langerie Wax Snap Beans
5.)Petit Gris de Rennes Sweet Summer Melon....... Grey-green rind that takes
on an orange cast when ripe...if the perfume doesn't tell you its already ripe!
The sweet melons are here as we were hoping! They started vine ripening just in time for us to pick our first round for this week's delivery. There are so many wonderful varieties of melons that many never get to see as the most common that always shows up in the grocery is the netted muskmelon type. So here we try to grow unusual varieties that maybe you have never seen nor tasted. The flavor has proved to be way above average we would say, which I am very pleased with considering I was concerned because of the rains. These Melons are French in origin, as they were noted in the garden of Bishop of Rennes nearly 400 years ago.
More than just the melons being French in Origin your basket reaches most broad this week, which inclues the Tiger Eye Dry Beans origin being Argentina and Chile; the Crystal Apple Cucumbers from New Zealand, the Poona Kheera from India; and the Dragon Langerie emigrating from the Netherlands. Very Global here at Arugula's Star Farm!
This week we purposefully picked some of the cuccumbers at a very small size in order for you to have some great cucumbers for some pickling. The skins of the smaller crystal apple cucumbers I noticed last night for dinner were a little bitter, so those I would for certain try to pickle or just peel before slicing. Sometimes though, it is a hit or miss with the skins being bitter, so the best method I would say, would always be to taste before decing what to do with them, or how to use them and keeping in mind that the tip ends should be discarded and not to be tasted, as the tips always have a little bite.
The small Poona Kheera's or Green Finger's genarally are never ever bitter, so it also has to do with variety.
I over viewed last year's Archived CSA Basket's to find which ones talked about melons, cucumbers, dry beans, and summer Squash and they were the Arhchived Basket Journals numbered 11, 12, 14, and 15, so you might enjoy looking over them as well, as last year I talked about a vegetable of the week and knew for the years after one could always refer back to those vegetable references.
Enjoy your French Sweet Melon and be on the look out for Watermelons next week!
August 12
What Genus Specie Varieties your basket contains:
1.) Summer Squash and Zucchini: Possible varieties would be Yellow Scallopini (yellowish green), Benning's Green Tint Scallopini (whitish green), Reve Dark Green Scallopini (dark green), Cocozelle Italian Striped Zucchini, and Golden Zucchini
2.)Cucumbers: Normal Sized Poona Kheera and English Green Finger's then small sized Poona Kheera, Marketmore, Green Finger and Crystal Apple
3.)Tiger's Eye Dry Bean (to be shelled and prepared like a dry bean)
4.)Dragon Langerie Wax Snap Beans
5.)Petit Gris de Rennes Sweet Summer Melon....... Grey-green rind that takes
on an orange cast when ripe...if the perfume doesn't tell you its already ripe!
The sweet melons are here as we were hoping! They started vine ripening just in time for us to pick our first round for this week's delivery. There are so many wonderful varieties of melons that many never get to see as the most common that always shows up in the grocery is the netted muskmelon type. So here we try to grow unusual varieties that maybe you have never seen nor tasted. The flavor has proved to be way above average we would say, which I am very pleased with considering I was concerned because of the rains. These Melons are French in origin, as they were noted in the garden of Bishop of Rennes nearly 400 years ago.
More than just the melons being French in Origin your basket reaches most broad this week, which inclues the Tiger Eye Dry Beans origin being Argentina and Chile; the Crystal Apple Cucumbers from New Zealand, the Poona Kheera from India; and the Dragon Langerie emigrating from the Netherlands. Very Global here at Arugula's Star Farm!
This week we purposefully picked some of the cuccumbers at a very small size in order for you to have some great cucumbers for some pickling. The skins of the smaller crystal apple cucumbers I noticed last night for dinner were a little bitter, so those I would for certain try to pickle or just peel before slicing. Sometimes though, it is a hit or miss with the skins being bitter, so the best method I would say, would always be to taste before decing what to do with them, or how to use them and keeping in mind that the tip ends should be discarded and not to be tasted, as the tips always have a little bite.
The small Poona Kheera's or Green Finger's genarally are never ever bitter, so it also has to do with variety.
I over viewed last year's Archived CSA Basket's to find which ones talked about melons, cucumbers, dry beans, and summer Squash and they were the Arhchived Basket Journals numbered 11, 12, 14, and 15, so you might enjoy looking over them as well, as last year I talked about a vegetable of the week and knew for the years after one could always refer back to those vegetable references.
Enjoy your French Sweet Melon and be on the look out for Watermelons next week!