It truly is starting to feel like summer with all three kinds of tomatoes we grow being harvested in amounts that are only increasing exponentially.

The cherry tomatoes and Early Girls have been harvested for a few weeks but now are heirloom tomatoes are starting to come in. Last Saturday we had a handful of them but it will be much more this week thanks to our first planting that has done so well so far.

The only heirloom tomato that was planted in the first planting was the Cherokee Purple so that the one that has the most ripening currently.

A few of them are starting to ripen in the second planting along with the first of our Marvel Stripes. It is a gorgeous yellow tomato with red stripes that can get pretty big.

Over the next few weeks our other varieties should start to come in.

Every week the amount of cherry tomatoes are increasing and this week it looks like we will have at least double of last week.

Most of them are sungolds which are so beautiful to see the ripe ones covering the plants before they are harvested and afterwards there still be some partially ripe ones that will be harvested Friday.

The Sweet 100s are starting to come in while there is only a trickle of the varieties that make up our mixed medley baskets.

The one massive fig tree on the farm has been covered with unripe figs for the last week and in almost a snap of the fingers lots of them are ripe. We took the first ones to market this past Saturday and by Sunday afternoon it looked like we hadn’t even harvested the tree with so many more ripe ones on it.

We will have lots of figs at market this week that are so delicious. This is the first of two crops the fig tree puts out each year and they are a larger fig that is perfect to be roasted, grilled or put on top of a pizza.

A new crop we are bringing to market starting this week is okra. We are growing both a green and red variety, although it mostly loses the color when cooked.

Okra is divisive among people with lots of ardent fans and also plenty of people who will not eat it. There are many different ways of cooking it that change the texture that people don’t like, plus its very nutritious to eat.

This week we will finish harvest of the little gems until the fall, sometime in late September or early October. We will be harvesting red batavia lettuce this week and next week before it also wraps up until the fall.

In the next couple of weeks all the spring crops will be wrapping up either because its too hot or we have harvested all of what we planted.

With the tomatoes, cucumbers, okra and summer squash there has been lots more harvest every day but we still are making time for some weeding.

This week we weeded the leeks which are looking good so far with lots of growth.

We also have weeded the winter squash which the seeds have germinated recently allowing us to start weeding around the plants. We’re looking forward to harvesting the winter squash in the fall.