Week 8 CSA

Given how quickly everything changes in the garden, every week feels eventful but this week in particular saw some big changes at MKG!  Last week we pulled out a lot of our dying beds and this week we tilled up the soil, added compost, and planted new beds of kale, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, and lettuce for the fall!Soon Plot A will be green and full of growing things once more! This coming week we'll work on putting in broccoli, more kale, sunflowers, and buckwheat in Plot B. Some more basil might also be in order because our beautiful bed was struck down by basil blight, brought on by the high levels of heat and humidity recently.Fortunately, the tomatoes in the hoophouse seem completely unaffected and are chugging along. They're doing so well, in fact, that we picked over 200 pint boxes of cherry tomatoes this week!! The tomato plants have grown so high that some of them touch the top of the hoophouse, while others have drooped into the aisle between the beds. We're going to see if we can restore some order to our tomato jungle this week!In other garden news, the zinnias have started blooming and it seems that almost every morning I find a butterfly or two perched on the flowers.We also found the first few itty bitty pumpkins this week. It's crazy to think that these tiny green balls barely bigger than a grape will grow into shapely orange pumpkins come October.Enthusiastically yours,Mikaela Ruiz-Ramon, MKG Intern