PYO Update

Our pick-your-own garden is unlimited and free to all CSA members, and is open every day during daylight hours (we put out supplies like scissors and containers during the farm share pickups, but if you want to come another time just BYO).

We now have lots of ripe cherry tomatoes! Supersweet (the red ones on the left), Sungold (the orange ones in the middle rows), and Black Cherry (the last row on the right) are all ready to pick.

While the really bad flooding from the Connecticut River was at our main field behind the Porter-Phelps Museum on Rte 47, we also had some more minor flooding in the PYO just from heavy rain accumulation (you may have noticed how wet and muddy it's been the past few weeks, especially in the back). There was even some standing water for a time, so there are sections of the cherry tomatoes, hot peppers, and herbs that are pretty dead :(

But the front parts and farther back are doing well, and it's now much less muddy and easier to walk around. There are really nice new flowers like sunflowers, ageratum, gomphrena, and celosia, as well as the old standbys calendula, cosmos, and zinnia behind the barn.

The herbs are hanging in there, they didn't like the heavy rain but there are still small amounts of rosemary, parsley, thyme, sage, oregano, basil, tarragon, tulsi, shiso, and chamomile.

We also have some fun new stuff ready to pick like okra and husk cherries. Most of the hot peppers haven't ripened yet but there are some jalapenos (green) and Hungarian hot wax (yellow). Later on this month there should be some hotter stuff like Cayenne and Habanero.

Green beans are done for the season, they got too wet to survive. And snap peas had a good run, but won't be back until next year.

If you want help finding any of this stuff, or knowing which part to pick, just ask whoever's staffing the farm share pickup (usually me or Angela), we're happy to help.

Thanks, see you all soon!