In this week’s share:
Summer's Bounty!
A head of a fresh cabbage – this variety is called Early Green. Nice compact heads full of taste. If you don’t want to use it all at once – they store really well if you cut them in half and store the unused half wrapped in plastic in your crisper [...]
What’s in the box this week?
Let’s start with the obvious in the upper left corner of the picture. That would be a field grown – fresh – just picked ripe red tomato! The variety is New Girl and it’s the earliest tomato we grew this year. Now don’t think this is it [...]
Please pot us up!
All good things take time – right? Time to grow, time to become something more… or in the case of tomato seedlings – time to get so darn big they shade each other out, drink all their water in a day and just become generally unruly in their behaviors. It’s at that point that [...]
(reprinted)
The following information appeared in the February 2010, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Veg Edge Publication. This publication serves the counties of Western New York.
Without a doubt, with the amount of late blight (LB) inoculum likely around we’re going to have to manage the disease on potatoes and tomatoes in 2010 unless the season is very dry from [...]