Dear All,
We are so excited, Katie got all the boxes cleaned up and labeled. We have spinach, garlic scapes, lettuce, cilantro and some peas! Get ready!!!
Potsdam pick up starts this Friday at 22 Waverly Street at the Caamanos house. Canton pick up starts next Tuesday between noon and two at the Canton Farmers Market.
Please bring a bag to transfer your goodies, so we can reuse the boxes.
Also the Caamanos are wonderful letting us use their porch every year and it is important that your food gets picked up that afternoon or early evening, so it does not spoil and they would have to deal with it. If you can not make it, please give us a call ahead tel: 386 4852 and we can hold the box in our cooler, or give them a call tel: 2651050 and let them know when you can pick up. Anything not picked up will be donated unless arranged differently. Thank you for your understanding.
Tiffany gave us this amazing list of what you can do with garlic scapes. I think it was 25 recipes. Here are the first five:
Dulli,
I remember at one point telling you I would send a list of what we use garlic scapes for:
1. garlic scape bread (like garlic bread, with the scapes chopped fine)
2. minced in mashed potatoes
3. garlic scape cream cheese
4. chopped up fine, in olive oil, and then dip good bread in it
5. in scrambled eggs
We have some sad news. Truffle, beloved Truffle past away last week after being sick, not being able to move her back legs very much. She was snuggly till the end and we gave her a ceremony in our backyard. We are going to Boston this week to find housing for Seba for college and the SPCA there has two three month old guinea pigs we might bring home. Nellie is sad and lonely and has become much warmer with us though she is still a bear to catch at night.
Dulli
6/6/12
Dear All,
we spent seven hours digging and raking up quack grass roots for the 1000 cabbages patiently waiting to be transplanted. They are bare root transplants 150 sharing a flat,not in individual cells and we need cloudy days so they don't just burn up in the sun the next day and they need daily watering for 4-5 days to get settled in. You may ask, what do we do for seven hours while raking and forking? Well Phil decorated his hat with a massive quack root ball that stood out as if he had electric hair, we contemplated to send a box of quack to Venus and see if it would take root and produce enough oxygen for people to live there, we talk about music and movies and feel sorry for our teenage highschoolers that have to do assignments. Anyways after dinner we got most of the cabbages planted, ready to move on to peppers and zucchinis tomorrow.
6-13
now it's a week later and the peppers and zucchinis are in. We are down to summer squash, cucumbers, melons, flowers and parsley.
Last night I was transplanting lettuce after dinner and heard roaming teenager noises. I called them from the lettuce bed (which is really a carrot bed that was spotty and got filled in with lettuce) they were surprised to hear me but couldn't see me behind the pea trellis. They were looking for an after dinner snack of fresh peas and did not know where the ready ones were. I had to defend the peas from Kira earlier this week. She had eaten 1/2 row of what was ready. Oh well, it's better they fill up on peas than on chocolate.
I finally got a way of irrigating our broccoli, cauliflower and kale that I like. The plants are 2 1/2 feet apart and mulched. I did not want to have an overhead sprinkler that soaks the hay. After searching different options on the internet, I came across the potted plant 4-way emitter for greenhouses. Basically there is a 4-way splitter set on top of the emitter and 4 tubes go to the individual plants. That way we can set the plants and add irrigation to where they are as opposed to having to plant exact on the inch. We had a five row bed and got four rows watered that way and you can see a big difference in size of the plants. I had learned in a workshop a few years ago, that irrigation is the most limiting factor for vegetable growers. Since then we are investing about $500-$1000 into different set ups with 3/4" poly pipe. ( I don't like T-tape, because insects burrow in it with in two years and destroy it. Our system works for many many years)
nelly the guinea pig.jpg
Dulli & Truffle.JPG
We are so excited, Katie got all the boxes cleaned up and labeled. We have spinach, garlic scapes, lettuce, cilantro and some peas! Get ready!!!
Potsdam pick up starts this Friday at 22 Waverly Street at the Caamanos house. Canton pick up starts next Tuesday between noon and two at the Canton Farmers Market.
Please bring a bag to transfer your goodies, so we can reuse the boxes.
Also the Caamanos are wonderful letting us use their porch every year and it is important that your food gets picked up that afternoon or early evening, so it does not spoil and they would have to deal with it. If you can not make it, please give us a call ahead tel: 386 4852 and we can hold the box in our cooler, or give them a call tel: 2651050 and let them know when you can pick up. Anything not picked up will be donated unless arranged differently. Thank you for your understanding.
Tiffany gave us this amazing list of what you can do with garlic scapes. I think it was 25 recipes. Here are the first five:
Dulli,
I remember at one point telling you I would send a list of what we use garlic scapes for:
1. garlic scape bread (like garlic bread, with the scapes chopped fine)
2. minced in mashed potatoes
3. garlic scape cream cheese
4. chopped up fine, in olive oil, and then dip good bread in it
5. in scrambled eggs
We have some sad news. Truffle, beloved Truffle past away last week after being sick, not being able to move her back legs very much. She was snuggly till the end and we gave her a ceremony in our backyard. We are going to Boston this week to find housing for Seba for college and the SPCA there has two three month old guinea pigs we might bring home. Nellie is sad and lonely and has become much warmer with us though she is still a bear to catch at night.
Dulli
6/6/12
Dear All,
we spent seven hours digging and raking up quack grass roots for the 1000 cabbages patiently waiting to be transplanted. They are bare root transplants 150 sharing a flat,not in individual cells and we need cloudy days so they don't just burn up in the sun the next day and they need daily watering for 4-5 days to get settled in. You may ask, what do we do for seven hours while raking and forking? Well Phil decorated his hat with a massive quack root ball that stood out as if he had electric hair, we contemplated to send a box of quack to Venus and see if it would take root and produce enough oxygen for people to live there, we talk about music and movies and feel sorry for our teenage highschoolers that have to do assignments. Anyways after dinner we got most of the cabbages planted, ready to move on to peppers and zucchinis tomorrow.
6-13
now it's a week later and the peppers and zucchinis are in. We are down to summer squash, cucumbers, melons, flowers and parsley.
Last night I was transplanting lettuce after dinner and heard roaming teenager noises. I called them from the lettuce bed (which is really a carrot bed that was spotty and got filled in with lettuce) they were surprised to hear me but couldn't see me behind the pea trellis. They were looking for an after dinner snack of fresh peas and did not know where the ready ones were. I had to defend the peas from Kira earlier this week. She had eaten 1/2 row of what was ready. Oh well, it's better they fill up on peas than on chocolate.
I finally got a way of irrigating our broccoli, cauliflower and kale that I like. The plants are 2 1/2 feet apart and mulched. I did not want to have an overhead sprinkler that soaks the hay. After searching different options on the internet, I came across the potted plant 4-way emitter for greenhouses. Basically there is a 4-way splitter set on top of the emitter and 4 tubes go to the individual plants. That way we can set the plants and add irrigation to where they are as opposed to having to plant exact on the inch. We had a five row bed and got four rows watered that way and you can see a big difference in size of the plants. I had learned in a workshop a few years ago, that irrigation is the most limiting factor for vegetable growers. Since then we are investing about $500-$1000 into different set ups with 3/4" poly pipe. ( I don't like T-tape, because insects burrow in it with in two years and destroy it. Our system works for many many years)
nelly the guinea pig.jpg
Dulli & Truffle.JPG
