We harvested our first ears of corn (9!) today in celebration of Oliver’s birthday.  The first ear we ate raw right on the spot.  The kernals were still a little small but tasted sweet and tender.  We also had beet greens, beets, and collard greens from the farm with some smokey potato salad with Applefield’s potatoes.  What a fantastic dinner!

Today’s harvest:  Sweet 100 Tomatoes, French beans, broccoli, soy beans, 2 zucchini, eggplant, 2 beets, 2 carrots, 9 ears corn, collards, cilantro, basil, nasturtium flowers, onion greens

18 days after planting the soy beans are sprouting!

The NY Early Onions that we planted near the peas have not sprouted.  Anxious that we are wasting space if they don’t germinate, we re-planted half of the row with onion plants from Applefield.  Inspired by the sprouted soy beans, we also dug up half of the inactive salsify plant more.  We also planted butternut seeds.

The corn is coming up as well (the little green dots)!

One of the new crops we are trying is heirloom Salsify from Old Strubridge Village Seed Store.  With a root that supposedly tastes like oyster and a flowering stalk that can be used like asparagus the culinary prospects sounded like a fun adventure and worth the space.  Planted a ten foot row near the leeks.

Also planted soy beans (for edamame).