The First Sugar Snap Pea Harvest
March 31st, 2021
We are pleased to report that we will be making the first official sugar snap pea harvest this week which means these lovely spring veggies will make their debut at the farm stand on Saturday! Though our sugar snaps were set back a bit due to the freeze, they recovered beautifully and are now yielding plenty of sweet pods. The sugar snap pea produces an edible pod which means you can eat the entire thing rather than shelling them for the peas inside. Sugar snaps can be enjoyed raw in salads or as a vehicle for your favorite dip. They can also be cooked, just make sure to keep it brief so their vibrant green color and sweet flavor stays intact.
Remember the perennial beds we mentioned back in this post? We planted them this week with Mexican mint marigold, lavender, lemon thyme, sage, onion chives, rosemary, and bay laurel. We left four feet of space between each herb so that we have room for annual intercropping. For the current season, we’re intercropping our herbs with zinnias. Our goal with this bed is to eventually have a steady supply of fresh herbs throughout the year for our farm stand, to provide food for pollinators, and to attract predatory insects that will help to keep unwanted pest populations in check. The zinnias we’ll be growing this season will also give us a source of beautiful cut flowers.
Our blackberries put on quite a bit of growth over the past month so we took some time over the past week to ensure the canes have trellis support. Though blackberries can grow and sprawl on the ground, trellising ensures adequate air flow and makes it much easier to harvest when the time comes. The variety we have growing is “Ouachita”, a thornless variety that yields large, sweet berries. While trellising, we spotted quite a few blooms on our blackberries which is a sign that we’re not far from our first berry harvest.
If you’re out and about and want to support restaurants that are using our produce, we delivered a lettuce mix to Yelo and mixed greens to Squable.
