July 13/14 - CSA Basket

- baby carrots
- radishes
- summer savory
- basil
- green onions
- romiane lettuce
- curly leaf lettuce
- butter crunch lettuce
- swiss chard
- kale
- spinach

Another green basket this week with bits of color. Scrumptious taste of the first tender carrots and red crunch radishes definitely brighten the salad with their added color, crunch and taste.

We were sorry the peas just were not ready yet this week ... need more rain. Watering just isn't the same as a good soaker from above.

Enjoy the salads while you can. We have huge rows of lettuce and spinach that are already bolting because of the heat ... some rain would be helpful. Succession plantings are coming along, but they are prone to bolting also with the hot summer days. We'll seed more for Fall harvests.

Some of the plantings of spinach and dill are already harvested -- we'll put more stuff into those spaces for later harvesting.

The herbs in your basket this week are summer savory and basil. Cooking with fresh herbs is truly a culinary experience to savor.

Basil is the large leaf herb while summer savory has the smaller leaves.


Use summer savory in soups, basil in soups, stews, sauces, homemade hamburgers ... and smoothies??!! Yumm! Watch for another post on "Adventure in Smoothies".

Be sure to toss the herbs, spinach etc. into ziplocs and into the freezer for later use ... then you can enjoy a bit of summer in winter! Or if you have a vacuum sealer your herbs will store even better.