Time's REALLY Flying!

Wow, can't believe it's been a month since our last post. Sorry for the delay. We've been island-hopping in the Caribbean, drinking cute drinks with little umbrellas, lazing about, doing nothing and being good at it...

Wait, sorry, back to reality here.

We've been a bit busy! We've been selling sweet corn (and everything else...) for 2 1/2 weeks, trying to keep weeds at bay, and trying to clean up the mess the rain keeps making of the strawberries.

The poor strawberries don't do well when they're ripe and it rains - talk about fungus! And we're trying to use organic methods. So there's a lot of hand-work: pulling runners and weeds out from among the plants to improve air flow, removing rotted and rotting berries from the field to keep insects from finding them, and picking berries a little less ripe than normal.

The sweet corn is certainly that - sweet! We've gotten great reviews from our subscribers and market customers (even with the occasional worm and smaller ears on the early corn!) The next batch is coming on, and the ears are much bigger and our organic spray worked on most of the worms. So it's looking really nice!

Green beans are going like gangbusters this week - Charles took 5 bushels to the Oakland Wednesday market. (That took a lot of picking!) There may be a lull before the next rows are ready, though.

A few peppers (bell and banana) are getting ready as well. We need the bells to turn red so we can make more pepper jelly - we're almost out already this year!

The tomatoes are finally coming on - both the Brandywine (pink heirloom) and our reds (Mt. Spring, Celebrity). Even the Roma's are starting to ripen. Thank goodness! It was time for a good BLT sandwich at our house!

Thanks for reading, and we hope you have a great day!