Wax Snap Beans are here, so come one come all for the Wednesday the 28th Delivery!
7/25/2010 4:53pm by Matthew and Allison Mills Neal
We are excited to say that the first Wax Snap Bean harvest will be this week. As I grew up picking green snap beans as a child every summer, I always look very forward to our first snap bean harvest. Snap Beans are so snapy, sweet, and delicious it is hard not to snack on them when picking down a long row. The greatest part of these snap beans that will be ready for first picking are wax snap beans of yellow and yellow-purple stripped color, hence the variety names of Gold Rush and Dragon Langerie. When you click on Wax Snap Beans at our On-Line Store you will be able to find out more information on them there, so please take a peak and place an order. We also have all the summer crops back that were offered last week like the cucumbers, summer squash and zucchini, and herbs. At the on-line store, you will notice that on all the vegetables there will not be a count on the amount remaining, so do not let that confuse you as being zero. The only item that will still have the count available will be the eggs. Another interesting item that if you are a Radish fan you will love is the Snapy Radish Green Pods.
When I was looking back at the Basket Journal's from 2009 I was reminded of how many vegetables that we normally have that we just do not have this year because of the flood, as they were all washed away, so we just like you have missed having carrots, beets, fennel, and greens as part of our late sprng and early summer eatings. Nonetheless, you will have opportunity for all these great vegetables in the fall as we just got our first round of fall seeds out last Friday that consisted of Broccoli, Carrots, Leeks, Celery, Cabbage, and Rutabagas. These are all of the fall crops that need to go out by the end of July or they most often have trouble developing great size before the daylight time starts deminishing in the late fall. With the extreme temperatures that we have been having it was hard to imagine that it was actually time to start getting fall crop seeds out into the field. As every growing season brings changes and surprises, I will say that this years' summer has had the longest run of Hot, Humid, & Sunny days that I can remember since the summer seasons back in the late nineties. Last year, we can remember many picking days of clouds and rains, which has not been the case this year at all.
Let me now let you know what you have to look forward to in the coming weeks... the fields should start producing other ripe summer fruits of tomatoes, okra, and sweet melons, so you will have the selection of what we are having now plus these new additions.
We hope everyone enjoyed the Coriander last week and we hope many more of you will continue to try it as we will have it every week for next while as we have dried a good amounts of it.
Until next time, keep up the organic /local eating!
Allison Mills Neal
www.ArugulasStarFarm.com
When I was looking back at the Basket Journal's from 2009 I was reminded of how many vegetables that we normally have that we just do not have this year because of the flood, as they were all washed away, so we just like you have missed having carrots, beets, fennel, and greens as part of our late sprng and early summer eatings. Nonetheless, you will have opportunity for all these great vegetables in the fall as we just got our first round of fall seeds out last Friday that consisted of Broccoli, Carrots, Leeks, Celery, Cabbage, and Rutabagas. These are all of the fall crops that need to go out by the end of July or they most often have trouble developing great size before the daylight time starts deminishing in the late fall. With the extreme temperatures that we have been having it was hard to imagine that it was actually time to start getting fall crop seeds out into the field. As every growing season brings changes and surprises, I will say that this years' summer has had the longest run of Hot, Humid, & Sunny days that I can remember since the summer seasons back in the late nineties. Last year, we can remember many picking days of clouds and rains, which has not been the case this year at all.
Let me now let you know what you have to look forward to in the coming weeks... the fields should start producing other ripe summer fruits of tomatoes, okra, and sweet melons, so you will have the selection of what we are having now plus these new additions.
We hope everyone enjoyed the Coriander last week and we hope many more of you will continue to try it as we will have it every week for next while as we have dried a good amounts of it.
Until next time, keep up the organic /local eating!
Allison Mills Neal
www.ArugulasStarFarm.com
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