May
28
Tomatoes in the Ground
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We planted the tomatoes (ten Romas, two Sungold, two Rutgers), two Peppers, and two Basil plants last evening. The Basil plants were included with our first CSA pickup on Tuesday.
We should get enough tomatoes from the Roma plants for a decent batch of sauce. The Rutgers should give us tomatoes for sandwiches throughout the season, and the Sungold should be perfect for just snacking. Hopefully all of the plants will make it, but we definitely had them indoors too long. Next year I’ll do better and won’t start them nearly as early.
We still have eight plants that we didn’t put in the ground because they are too spindly or we just didn’t have the space. We may plant the best ones in large pots on our back porch at the townhouse.
More pictures are available in the Garden 2009 Flickr set.
May
28
First CSA of the Season
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We picked up our first CSA of the season Tuesday evening at the Boalsburg Farmer’s Market on the grounds of the PA Military Museum. As I’ve mentioned previously, we subscribe to the Full Circle Farms Community-Supported Agriculture program. We pay several hundred dollars in the early spring and receive a basket of fresh fruits and vegetables each week throughout the growing season. This first basketful included spinach, mixed seasonal greens, spring onions, rhubarb, and garlic greens. Sabine also had basil plants available and gave us two to plant in our garden.
We’re going to make a few things with this first batch. The rhubarb we will freeze until fresh local strawberries are available, probably in mid-June. I’m planning to make a spinach and garlic greens quiche for dinner tomorrow night. As for the rest, they’ll probably end up in salads this weekend.
A light rain was falling, but we went around to the few stalls that were still open at 5:45 anyway. I don’t know if there were so few vendors because of the rain, the earliness of the season, or because the market closes at 6:00. Most of the stalls just had baked goods or frozen meat, but we did find some nice potatoes. Overall, we were unimpressed and I think I still prefer the Millheim Farmer’s Market on Saturdays.
