Walkers Fresh Veggies

Like every season we have ever had , or will likely ever have it was one with many ups and downs. We had a lot of rain --more frequent rains than I can ever remember --until August when we had no rain for three weeks, and it got hot and dry(short summer!).   Everything did OK except watermelon and cantaloupe --these needed more heat.  Root crops did better than they ever have --we had some carrots that weighed over a pound each. Our red potatoes did very well too yielding 1/3 to 1/2 again "normal".  The white sweet Spanish onion plants we ordered turned out o be yellow Spanish instead --but they were sooo good!  They got very big and tasted so good --I am planning on switching to yellows from now on.  Sweet corn is our backbone and it was great this year --no worms , and very good.  We had on plot  of green beans that went over 7000 lbs. harvested in one picking on 1.3 acres. These were Blue Lake and we sent them to fill a contract with the Food Bank of South Central Michigan.  We had a bit more labor than we would like, mostly due to my being down three weeks with retinal surgery ( I suffered a detached retina and had to have surgery in the end of June).  Check out our Facebook page to see some new photos I have posted of our packing crew for CSA shares.