Fall is here, and we can tell in the garden. Nights are getting cold, one night in the high 30s, so we close the greenhouse in the evening now. This week we have the last taste of summer with watermelons and the last tomatoes, melons, and cucumbers of the season. Our tomatoes in the greenhouse have succumbed to late blight, so this is the last week for tomatoes. We even get to enjoy fried green tomatoes one last time, since there are so many gorgeous unripe fruit still on the plants. We also get the first taste of fall with the first winter squash.
We will also have available:
Snacking Tomatoes: $2.50/lb
Green Beans: $1.50/lb
Ground Cherries: $3.00/lb
Free Range Eggs: $3/dozen
Watermelon
New this week are an heirloom variety called Moon and Stars watermelon.
Acorn Squash
The first of the winter squash, these are a colorful variety called Carnival. Try these the old fashioned way, with butter, maple syrup , and brown sugar, for a warming evening dessert on a chilly night.
Classic Baked Acorn Squash
Tomatoes
The Mothership Tomato Salad
Our tomato plants in the greenhouse are dying before the fruit can ripen. So lets take this as an opportunity to enjoy fried green tomatoes one last time. Goes great with watermelon!
The last of the melons, sadly all have been pretty undersized and underripe this season, c'est la vie.
Tomatillos
More tomatillos this week. We enjoy making a salsa verde out of these or for enchilada sauce with chicken or pork. They also go well in a pot of chili or soup! These are easy to preserve for another day, just take out of the paper-lantern like husk, wash and then freeze whole for later.
Green Beans
Our green bean mix includes purple, yellow and green beans, which will all turn green, except strangely the yellow variety, when cooked.
Peppers
This week we have a hungarian wax pepper, jalapeƱo, Anaheim, and a bell pepper for everyone.
Cucumber-Slicer and Lemon
The cucumbers in the greenhouse are beginning to succumb to downy mildew, so enjoy these now, we won't have them much longer! This may be our last week of cucumbers, which is unfortunate because greens will be starting again. We like to eat the lemon cucumbers raw, like an apple, but they can be pickled or used in salad or cucumber salad just like any regular cucumber.
Eggplant
Okra
Herbs
This week for herbs we have Italian basil and onion chives.
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