Spring CSA 6

Good evening all!

It was nice to be back in my regular routine this week.  We are mid-point in our Spring baskets and welcoming our Seasonal members.  I was happy to meet some of you at our plant sale last weekend and wish you luck in your gardens this year! It has been a long and hard 2 weeks and i am hoping the weather cooperates soon.
  This week I made two separate batches of lettuce; one a cold weather blend and the other a lighter summer mix.  We have slowly been clearing the hoop-house to  give our already growing summer crops more room and light and to replace any cold crops with heat loving crops.  We got more planted in the gardens outside but not much as we are extremely limited.

In your baskets this week:

1 Chez Nous Mix Winter Blend (the one with the Chez Nous Farms Label on it)with Napa, Kales, Mustards, Herba Stella, Asian Greens, Sorrel

1 Chez Nous Mix Summer blend which has mostly lettuces, lots of arugula, sunflowers greens, some napa and Asian greens and beet greens

1 bag of Kale Mix

1 lrg bag of Stir Fry Mix with Swiss Chard, Hakurei Turnips ( leaves are edible) and other greens

1 bunch of Chive Buds...I'm thinking pizza or quiche or just a plain cheese and onion omelette à la fancy!

Napa Cabbage I can't praise this wonderful green enough! It explodes week after week, these have been taken down to small cores so that the cucumbers have room but give them a week and they will be back up to size and in your salad!  I am curious to see how long they will last.

Lettuce was also exploding everywhere!

These lettuce heads needed to be cut into 3 pieces for the salad mix.

Arugula was also very large and needed to be cut.

Hakurei Turnips we had some really big ones ,I took this one in the house to see if it was tough or stringy but no it was perfect even at that size!

Chive Buds 

This is what most of the yard looks like

But there are some great things happening... we have our onions planted (  at the far back sit all our leeks unplanted for now)

There are 300 feet of Snap Peas planted and they are doing well- when it comes to peas picking them is the big job!

Some lettuces, endive, amaranth, spinach and a 150 foot colored carrot bed. My fingers are crossed for these.  We have had to lay our organic bagged products on the bed since it is untillable.

Broccoli, Kohlrabi and Kales 

And then there is the greenhouse which is bursting with life...many, many cold crops which ideally should be harvested and removed to allow for the hot crops. It's hard to remove such healthy plants though since not much is going on outside!

We've started trellising the cucumbers and tomatoes.

I am truly amazed at just how much we have been able to produce in 1 greenhouse.  

And here maybe just to make me smile or cry lol! is one of many trays of  flowers that never made it out yet and have bloomed right were they are. This is Zulu Prince