Transplanting Fall Tomatoes
September 2nd, 2021
We transplanted our fall succession of tomatoes this week! As they grow we’ll be adding trellises for support and ease of harvesting. If all goes well, we should be able to begin harvesting these tomatoes in October. Here are the varieties we have planted: Sungold (a sweet golden cherry variety), Grand Marshall (a red slicing variety), Mountain Princess (a round red slicing variety), and Neptune (a reddish orange slicing variety).
We’re harvesting quite the variety of peppers at the moment. For peppers with a bit of heat, we’ve been harvesting Jalapeños and Padróns with Poblanos coming on in the next couple of weeks. As for our sweet pepper varieties (seen in the photo above), we’ve been harvesting Shishito, Carmen, Escamillo, and Jimmy Nardello peppers. Shishito peppers (the peppers on the right side of the photo) are mild with a citrusy and grassy flavor. Shishitos can be eaten raw but they develop a rich and smoky flavor when blistered, grilled, or roasted. A popular Japanese preparation is to make Shishito tempura or to simply blister the peppers and serve them with a soy or miso-based dipping sauce.
There are quite a few fruits and veggies just over the harvesting horizon that we are really excited to share with you. In the next week or two, we’ll be harvesting fresh cowpeas, baby arugula, baby mizuna, and baby mustard greens. We’ll also be harvesting radishes, baby kale, and butternut squashes. Our next succession of Sugar Baby watermelons should be ready in the next couple of weeks and slightly further out will be our Arava melons. We’re looking forward to having a lot more diversity during our harvests!
