Weekly Availability

Last Call for Sugar Snap Peas: The summer heat is officially doing a number on our sugar snaps. It happens every year around this time, so if you want one last crisp, sweet crunch, make sure to grab them this week before they are done for the season.

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Tomatoes Up to Bat: As the peas exit, our Glacier cocktail tomatoes are stepping up. These versatile, intermediate-sized beauties average about 1.5 inches when ripe and bridge the gap perfectly between a snacking cherry tomato and a larger slicer.

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Succession Planting: The bush beans are not far behind, and we are already busy getting our second succession in the ground to ensure a steady supply for you later this summer.

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Storage Onions: Some of our storage onions are starting to signal they are ready for harvest. We look for the necks to soften and the tops to naturally fall over on about 75% of the crop; once that happens, we will pull them and hang them up to dry and cure.

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Garlic: The garlic plants have just a few straggler garlic scapes still showing up. That means we are on target for an early July harvest.

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Trellising the Slicers: Our slicer tomatoes just got their third round of the Florida weave—a traditional trellising method where twine is woven between stakes to cradle the plants. They are growing beautifully and should reach the wire supports in another week or so.

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Planting warm-weather flowers: Sam got another beautiful row of warm-weather flowers in the ground this week and set up their protective netting. This is a huge improvement over our earler beds this year, where we let the plants get a bit too large before supporting them, and had to resort to using jute string on the outside to keep them from spilling into the aisles.

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The Definition of a Weed: A weed is just a plant where you don’t want it. A whole bunch of "volunteer" tomatillos have sprouted up on their own in the pathway right next to where we planted them last season. 

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