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What's happening on the farm right now?
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The onions are planted. The crew spent pretty much all day yesterday getting them in the ground and they are looking happy. We are stepping up eggplants, peppers and tomatoes today in the greenhouse. The early beets and carrots are up (see photo below) and some of the strawberries are starting to turn red!!!! Next up: plant the potatoes.
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What's available in the store and at market this week?
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The North Asheville Tailgate Market opens it's 2023 market season this Saturday. Market hours are 8am until 12pm. We will be there with radishes and bags of baby mixed kale, as well as bunches of tulips, ranunulcus, snapdragons, and anemones and mixed bouquets. We'll also have some garden starts, kales and mixed lettuces.
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All the produce, flowers and plants are also available to order on line so you can be sure you don't miss out. Supplies are limited.
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John's Recipe of the Week
| John Loyd is our dear friend, neighbor, CSA worker member and a gourmet Southern cook. His delightful observations on gardening and cooking appear here each week. |
Herb Garden Ideas
We grow herbs in garden areas set aside for them each year, and then harvest all season, up to frost. Herbs are easy to grow and don’t take much space. There are a zillion herbs you can grow. We pick the ones we use the most, so we don’t grow that many.
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Herbs are low maintence don’t require 100% sunlight. Two to four hours of sunlight is enough. Four to eight hours is even better.
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They can be grown in pots, window boxes and any kind of planter. We grow ours in raised beds, mostly annuals, and mixed in our flower beds, mostly perennials.
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Watch your herbs for wilt and water as needed. Don’t over-water.
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We use garden mix dirt from The Longest Yard. Herbs like some sand, and one-third each sand, dirt and compost is great, but we have found herbs are not to choosey.
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Once established, mint, sage, tarragon, thyme, mint, oregano, and rosemary will come back every year. Sage and rosemary are touchy, and covering them in fall is not a bad idea. We lost both during the Christmas freeze.
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We grow our basil in a place that gets about 2 or 3 hours of sun a day. It thrives in shady areas.
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These annuals round out what we think is a nice herb garden. Parsley, basil, chives, dill and cilantro.
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Be careful where you plant mint as it will spread with vigor.
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Even after all the flowers on this redbud got blighted by the freeze, it is still determined to greet the Spring with blooms
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Your farmers, Vanessa and Alex
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Love the flowers. Honor the vegetables. Let the weeds go!
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- Cheri Huber and Ashwini Narayanan
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