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  • Sugar Snap Peas
  • Italian Parsley
  • Snow Peas
  • Giant Bag of Salad Greens
  • Garlic Scapes (last time!)

Pea season has begun. We started harvesting peas last Friday with about 20 pounds. Today, we picked about 60 pounds total of snow peas and sugar snaps. Both types of peas are edible-podded peas. This means you eat them pod and all. Both are delicious raw or lightly cooked. Pea season is short - about 3 weeks - so enjoy them while you can. I hope the shelling peas will mature this week so we can have some of those for you next week.

We have a gorgeous planting of salad mix right now so you got large bags of salad greens. With the hot weather predicted for this week, the greens will be good.

We plant salad greens every 2 weeks of the growing season, but this is an outstanding patch. It is amazing that the weather (rain, sun, temperature and wind) can make a huge difference from one planting to the next.

This is the last week for garlic scapes, so enjoy them. Try marinating them in balsamic vinegar and olive oil and then grilling them for a couple of minutes. Yum!

This Week’s Recipes

Boxes

Our new boxes are rather stiff. Some of them are coming back torn up. Please remember to NOT pull up on the flaps. Rather, slide the flaps back towards the edge. The middle of the flaps should push up towards the sky. If you have difficulty with this, please don’t try to flatten the boxes. Just bring them back still in their box form and I will flatten them. Also, if you have difficulty remembering to return your box, please just empty the box and leave it at your pick up site. Thanks!

Veggies and Hot Weather

Some of these very hot days are difficult for the veggies, particularly if you pick up your box late in the day. Any of the salad greens, radishes, beets, and many others would benefit from being put into cold water for 5 to 10 minutes. Then spin the greens (if you have a spinner) and put the greens back into a bag and place in the refrigerator. The veggies that do NOT want to be dunked in water include basil, potatoes, sweet potatoes, dry onions, garlic bulbs, green beans and winter squash.

Riley Writes

The Kitties and I really like these long days. There are bunnies and butterflies to chase, places to dig, veggies to eat, people to jump all over. So we need to start our days really early. The birdies start to sing at about 4:30. We have to wake mom up so she can let us out right away. It’s a team effort. First Mandalay runs into the bedroom. She dashes across the bed several times and talks with her squeaky voice. Sabrina is next. She can purr loudly. So she purrs and purrs. Then she kneads with her feet and puts her claws into Mom just a little. I’m next. I jump on the bed, stand over Mom and stare at her until she wakes up. If that doesn’t work I drop my 50 pounds on top of her and start petting her with my paws (and nails). Sometimes she ignores us and turns over. We just move around to the other side and start over. But we always win. So lately, Mom has been up by 5 and working very early. I tell her it’s better on these hot days. She’s not convinced - especially on Sundays…