Showing Them How It’s Done
Today was our Week 6 CSA Pickup. It reinforced our conclusion that kale and chard must be verrryyy easy to grow! Again, we got a huge bunch of each. As you can see from the picture below, those items make up about half of this week’s haul! Too bad we haven’t developed a taste for either! Which leaves us with the salad greens, parsley, radishes, scallions, few carrots, and zucchini that rounded out this week’s basket.
Week 6’s basket
The funniest part of this week’s pickup was the “1st fruit” option. Each shareholder got to pick one of the following: a zucchini, a pepper, or a tomato. We opted for the zucchini because the pepper was small and the tomato was tiny—about cherry tomato size. The guy behind me in line was incredulous: “You mean I get one tomato? Just one? That’s it?” …Yes, yes it is.
That’s why I was extra happy to see these in our garden:
More than one ripe tomato and two good size peppers
Oh, and Kevin’s Dad brought over some of his excess garden produce earlier today. Two large cucumbers and one gigantic zucchini. No offense to the CSA’s zucchini, but doesn’t it look like a jalapeño in comparison?
Zucchini and mini zucchini
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WOW! need a zucchini bread recipe? I have one from Karen Fairchild, the lady who used to take attendance at church. Look at her husband, Roy, and tell me she isn’t a great cook! I have made it several times and it is mmm-mmm good! And your garden–looks fabbie!