Week Two is packed!

Amazingly, we had sun today while we were packing – it was almost unnerving, we’re not used to staying dry while we work!

You have a few kinds of lettuce, some spinach, some purple mustard, some wondrous homemade bread, spring onions, and a few snips of basil.  We have another week or two of salad-centric bags before the other good stuff starts coming in, but there’s a nice variety of kinds, so no two salads should look or taste quite the same!

There is extensive damage from the heavy rains to some of our earlier plantings, and we will be replanting a lot of things as soon as the ground dried out a little.  This is why we plan for ten items in each bag, and only expect to be able to deliver five or six.  Those veg for which we planted seedlings, like broccoli and cabbage, are doing fine, as are the potatoes and peas. The carrots are in the Chesapeake Bay by now, and the radishes are at the bottom of the Radels’ pond.  The very expensive Hakurei turnip seed has floated down the Susquehanna with the carrot seed.  But we can replant.

Tomatoes and peppers and eggplant haven’t gone in yet, and the whole squash family is yet to be planted other than a few early varieties at Katie’s.  So those should be fine.

We’re starting pots of watercress this week which will be partially submerged along the creek at Yeehaw Farm, and there are plans in place to get some beautiful strawberries soon from our Amish friends, the Eshes.

Thanks to all of our Beans for making the deliveries go smoothly, and for being understanding when we messed up.  Now that we have Intern Susanna, we hope to have better accounting at our end on packing day!  We love being your farmers!