CSA Week 12, Sept1-4

This week's share: french filet beans, sweet potato tendrils, tomatoes, basil, watermelon, carrots, sweet bell and italian peppers, hot peppers, onions.

Recently, basil has been getting a mildew that turns it yellow/brown, then kills it ("Downy Mildew").  The trick is to grow it as big as you can and then eat it before it's dead.   So some of the basil leaves are a little yellow/brown, but the majority of it is perfectly fine.  If it smells like basil, it's good!

The sweet potato tendrils are an up and coming super food.  During a recent web search, i learned that "Apart from being tasty, this simple vegetable is packed with nutrition, being the only vegetable with Iodine, a common substance found in seafood. It also contains vitamin A, C and Calcium; In the Philippines, it is widely believed that lactating mothers fed sweet potato tops improve their breast milk production. In fact, it is now a major ingredient of a commercially available food supplement drink in the Philippines. It is also a folk remedy which is used to treat diarrhea and dizziness".  Enjoy!

Sweet Potato tendril recipes

The warm summer has been good for our eggplant

late summer pruning

recently seeded fall beets and lettuce