CSA Newsletter ~ Week 8

The weather continues to keep us on our toes again! Last Wednesday we had an 1" of rain in 20 minutes and hail! The weather man forecast 1mm of rain on Sunday and we ended up with a huge thunder and rain storm which left us pushing watermelon radish seed back into the ground that we had seeded the day before!

Good news though, the carrots made it! After the last rain storm we had we started to see faint lines of green appearing in the bed.

We have friends from England arriving this week which we are really excited about so your farmers may even take a day off work while they are here!

This weeks basket
Cucumbers - Finally the patch is starting to look amazing, why not try something different with them like making Tzatziki
Onions - These will keep just chop off the green tops.
Salad onions - You have a double dose of onions this weeks as we wanted to clean out the last of these from the bed.  If you do not want to use them this week one option is to slice them and freeze them and you can use them in soups and stews in winter.
Tomatoes - Again the rain has caused the bigger tomatoes to split so make sure you use these first.
Eggplant
Napa cabbage - It is back by popular demand, everyone loved it bbq'ed it so we did an additional planting.
Lettuce - thanks to all the rain and slightly cooler temps the lettuce bed has come on.
Carrots
Celery
Zucchini
Potatoes - These are called Onaway and are stunning potatoes.  They are straight out the ground so just give the skins a scrub don't peel them as they are so fresh.  You may find the odd crack in a potato, this is due to all the rain we have had.
Tomatillos - These are Mexican tomatoes and can be eaten raw or turned into salsa.  All you need to do is rinse them and remove the paper husk.  You can also freeze them by leaving them whole placing in a ziploc bag and freeze for winter use.  They make great chilli! We find that most people like to make salsa.  The tomatillos can be roasted or you can make salsa by leaving the tomatillos raw. I have found a great creamy tomatillo ranch dressing which sounds rather tasty.
Hot Peppers are optional.