CSA Week 4 July 3-7

This week's share:  broccoli, arugula, radish, salad turnips, tatsoi, basil, garlic scapes, lettuce and fennel.

The broccoli has a distinctive yellowish tint and is full flavored.  Be certain to get it into the refrigerator ASAP. 

We have loads of beautiful basil now, but it most likely will become diseased soon.   (The "basil downy mildew" pathogen is airborne and moves up from the south every summer.)  The date of its arrival for any given season is a function of wind patterns.
  
It's often feast or famine with these veggies.  This week's share has plenty of basil and garlic scapes;  so......make pesto now, or you may  have to wait until next year. 

Happy Independence Day!

The "scapes" of the garlic plant are actually it's flower stalk and (unopened) flower.

our nice basil crop with a not so nice living grass mulch

We only see the sun rise on the North side of the greenhouse for about 2 months of the year

Colorado Potato Bastards!

Black Swallowtail on our watermelon vine.