Just a few weeks ago we were beginning to harvest our first spring planted lettuce and now we have multiple successions coming in at the same time with the lettuce-loving weather.

Every few days we are able to see a significant jump in the size of the lettuce as they get closer to harvest and then are ready for us to take to market.

We’ve got a wide variety of lettuces we are harvesting which each bring something a little bit different that works well when mixed or on their own.

The last lettuce was transplanted yesterday so now it is all out in the field and hopefully we will have at least six more weeks of harvesting lettuce before we take a break for summer.

It could be sooner when we finish up if it gets hotter and everything grows much faster so we have to sell it all quickly before it bolts.

The random rain we got in the middle of the warm weather brought three-eighths of an inch of rain to the farm. There were some places nearby that said they got hail so we were lucky to miss out on that as it would have damaged some of our crops.

All of our veggies are loving the rain we got and growing rapidly along with the weeds around them.

We got all of our tomatoes weeded this week and were able to get a close up look on all the plants seeing lots more fruit on them. None ready to harvest but it shouldn’t be too long for our first cherry tomato.

There even is a few cherry tomatoes starting to form on the second planting which is exciting. We don’t want to just have a basket or two for the first few weeks we have tomatoes but a decent supply so everyone can enjoy them.

Not too far away from beginning harvesting is the genovese basil. It has been enjoying the warm days although the two cold nights we had this weekend it didn’t enjoy and had a little damage on the leaves as a result.

That won’t hurt the basil too much as it was just a little stress for plants that have been growing so well so far.

Last year we dealt with flea beetles eating the leaves of the eggplant plants when they were small causing them to be stressed and take much longer to get to the point where there were eggplant to harvest. This year we have them covered with light row cover that we also used for the tomatoes and it has significantly reduced the damage on them.

They still need to do a decent amount of growing before the fruit will be produced but it is nice not having stressed plants that have to use more of the nutrients and water just focusing on surviving the damage of the flea beetles.

With it forecasted to get into the mid-90s in a week the eggplant, basil and tomatoes should see lots of growth.