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What's Available When
Here is a month by month listing of when we start to harvest crops grown at Our Garden.
Remember however that plants and weather are oblivious to our calendars.
March through April:
asparagus, kale, turnip and beet greens, chard, bok choi, green onions, lettuce, spinach, arugula, raddichio;
and later, carrots, turnips and beets
May through June:
squash, onions, garlic, grapes, peaches, corn, raddichio
By the beginning of June asparagus is long gone. Generally spinach is as well, and we don't expect much
in the way of turnips or beets or lettuce. Sometimes the carrots hang on for a while. The chard and kale are slowing
down. And sometimes we just need to turn them in to prepare for the next season. But also by this time the squash
starts to fill in, and this is the month we harvest garlic and onions, which cure for a week or 2 before being put up for
sale.
By the end of June we've finally run the course on arugula, raddichio, carrots, kale, green onions and beets,
and almost so on chard. But we have squash, 4 varieties of garlic, sweet onions with occassional gaps, and late in the
month of June corn generally appears and reappears for a couple weeks. Also late in June or early July is when we see
peaches and grapes. Sometimes we get a sneak preview of tomatoes as well.
July:
corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, okra, melons
Salsa month! Now we're seeing tomatoes at last. Earlier the lower ones were quail food, but now they
can no longer reach the red beauties. We grow several varieties of peaches, so they should still be available off and
on, and make wonderful salsa too. We might still have corn at the beginning of the month depending on the year, and
okra should be a regular. Cucumbers may already appeared, and the peppers and eggplant wait until it is good and warm
at night, hot peppers appearing before the sweet ones. When we think we can wait no longer the melons are also ready,
but never for the 4th of July it seems. Sometimes not even until August. Usually we still have sweet onions, and
garlic is forever, along with zucchini.
With Return of Cool Temps:
lettuce, spinach, green onions, bok choi, beets carrots, broccoli,
cauliflower, cabbage, kale, chard......
These are all starting dates, adjusted for 2008.
If you have our handout from last year, you'll notice some differences due to the cooler spring this year.
Some things phase out with the heat, some are slower
to start...
heaven help us, it all depends on the weather!
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