Well, our year is off to a soggy, balmy start. Everthing seems to be running ahead of schedule—the blueberries are budding out, our cabbage seed crop is starting to elongate, and perhaps the most surprising indicator is that sunny, 50° days in February don’t seem all that surprising! Winter may not officially be over, but
This Week: 1 head Red Lettuce 2 Beefsteak Tomatoes 1 head Savoy Cabbage 1 bunch Carrots 4 Red Pears 2 Ripe Bell Peppers 1
Welcome to September! The exciting announcement of the week is that our resident chardmonger and wordsmith is now a father! Clara Elizabeth Ottesen was born Sunday afternoon. So as Kai is somewhat busy this week I’m afraid
Well, we’ll have some fall bluster sneaking into our halcyon summer by the end of the week, but we’ll make the best of it. A decent rain will save us one last round of irrigation if it amounts to anything, and even if it doesn’t (amount to anything) it’ll take the edge off our newly transplanted cabbage seed and winter cauliflower transplants here in the dog days of summer. Looks like the drizzle is set to carry on right into next week and September along with it.
This Week: 1/2 case Beefsteak Tomatoes 1 head Red Butter Lettuce 1 bunch Red Beets 1 bunch Carrots 3 Bartlett Pears 1 pound Green Beans 2
Thunder! Lightning! Partly cloudy with light showers! We took a break from working on the house late Monday night to watch the lightning and listen to the thunder roll overhead from underneath the eaves of the barn. Over the course of an hour we watched it roll from down near Stanwood all the way up to Padilla Bay before it finally petered. For all their cinematic reputation, thunderstorms really have no sense of dramatic timing. No preludes, no foreshadowing, just long periods of inaction punctuated by brief and arbitrary outbursts, and then you just sit in the theater in the dark until you get cold and go home. But what a theater!
Week 8 2 Beefsteak Tomatoes – PF 1 bunch Spinach – CO 1 bunch Red Chard – CO 1 pound Green Beans – CO 1
We are coming in to high summer here, and finally! High 70s during the day and high 50s at night is just where we like it. Now if we could just get an inch of rain every Sunday night between midnight and 5 AM, followed by another week of solid sun that would be just about perfect.
This week: 2 Beefsteak Tomatoes – PF 1 English Cucumber – PF 1 bunch Spinach – CO 1 bunch Parsley – CO 1 head Romaine Lettuce – CO
It is a good week to like peas! Our crisp, devourable sugar snap peas are in. They took their sweet, sweet time getting here and it was time well spent. The pods are crisp and juicy, the peas are sweet and firm. A pound might last the car ride home, but there’s more at the farmstand, at least for the next couple weeks.