From the folks at Hudson Valley Seed Library: Our harvest baskets are over-flowing! August is peak garden harvest season. In celebration of our favorite garden abundance month, we will be posting weekly harvest guides. Most garden vegetables, herbs and flowers benefit from frequent harvesting, so check your garden daily and harvest as needed. Here’s what we have in our garden this week: Cucumbers Eggplant Tomatoes Basil Rainbow Chard Curly Kale Baby Bok Choy Beets Garlic New Potatoes Lovage
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From the folks at Hudson Valley Seed Library:

Our harvest baskets are over-flowing! August is peak garden harvest season. In celebration of our favorite garden abundance month, we will be posting weekly harvest guides.

Most garden vegetables, herbs and flowers benefit from frequent harvesting, so check your garden daily and harvest as needed.

Here’s what we have in our garden this week:

Cucumbers

Eggplant

Tomatoes

Basil

Rainbow Chard

Curly Kale

Baby Bok Choy

Beets

Garlic

New Potatoes

Lovage

Summer Produce Overload?



HERE’S a dirty little secret of summer.

What should be a beautiful and inspiring sight — your kitchen, overflowing with seasonal produce — is sometimes an intimidating tableau of anxiety. The knobbly piles and dirt-caked bunches are overwhelming. Already the peak-ripe multicolored peppers are developing soft spots; the chard is wilting and the race is on.

“People often feel overwhelmed in the kitchen, and when all this produce suddenly arrives, they panic,” said Ronna Welsh, a chef in Brooklyn who teaches workshops on, among other topics, produce management.

Vegetable anxiety can strike anyone at this time of year: C.S.A. subscribers, compulsive farm-stand stoppers and even vegetarians. “All this produce arrives with a deadline,” said Benjamin Elwood, a lawyer in St. Paul. “It’s like when a DVD comes from Netflix. You feel like you have to watch the movie ASAP in order to get your money’s worth, but the pressure makes you not want to watch it.” …. More from the New York Times

Source: The New York Times

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