This week we will have Sugar Snap and Snow Peas, zucchini, new red potatoes, strawberries, broccoli and lettuce.  

We also have in pots: Morning Glory, Begonia, Cleome, Balsam, Gaillardia, herbs, and tomato plants. Also, popcorn and dried gourds. 

Our flowers continue to grow like gangbusters. The Morning Glories are climbing over everything! There is still a good selection to choose from. The popular Heavenly Blue and Black Knight are for sale again.

The Begonias are showing off right now - blooming profusely! These specific Begonias are tuberous and can be brought inside and enjoyed year round. We actually have this same Begonia in a large pot that has not disappointed us for more than a decade.

We now have Mexican Sunflower Torch for sale as well as Cleome Apple Blossom. These two flowers are not yet blooming, but should begin blooming end of June, beginning of July. The Sunflower is about 18 inches tall when mature with bright orange sunflower-like blooms that are about 3" in diameter. The Cleome are much taller, reaching about 2 feet, taller if transplanted into a garden. This particular variety is named Apple Blossom because of their light pink blossoms.

We also have:

• Pink and purple Petunias (full sun)

• Balsam Impatiens (full sun to part shade) Impatiens can be brought inside to be enjoyed over the winter although Balsam Impatiens tend to outgrow their pots pretty quickly.

• Gaillardia (full sun) grow to about 2 feet tall with orange, red, and yellow blooms. Very pretty!

• Celosia "Flamingo Feather" is a tall upright plant with soft feathery foxtail like plumes held high above the plant that will last the entire season. The flowers dry well for use in dried flower arrangements. 

• And MORE!

Later on we will be having: Angel's Trumpet, White California Poppies, and Red Salvia.

Hello,

For those sweet corn lovers I have a bit of bad news:  According to the Sweet Corner Planner software we lost a day this week and the first corn is now expected to be ready for picking on July 16 and not July 15 which the software forecasted last week.  This week looks relatively warm so perhaps the planner will shoot out an earlier date by next week-we'll see.

We are now picking our snow and sugar snap peas.  Actually, we started a few days ago since they seemed to get ripe a few days earlier than we thought.  While we are still picking strawberries, the crop is small and the demand is very high.  We are now starting to pick our zucchini.  This is the earliest we have ever had zucchini since we not only started the plants in our greenhouse we also used a row cover.  Also starting this week are our new red potatoes.  This week we will probably only be selling them in quarts of the small creamers.  We will also be selling the slightly larger "B" size potatoes in quarts and ¼ peck baskets.  Size "A" potatoes (which are the regular sized potatoes) should start next week. 

As you probably know, last year we had no apples because of the weather (very early bloom along with normal late April and early May frost.)  This year the apples bloomed during the normal time (mid May) and there was no frost so we have a nice crop of every variety of apple we have-which is over 100.  Keep in mind however, that we only have a couple of apples each of some of the rare, unusual varieties like our Surprise and Hawaii apples.  Also keep in mind we have a good crop of early summer apples such as Quinte, Vista Bella and Melba.  We hope to start picking our Quinte around July 20.  Our latest apples, like Granny Smith, Fuji, Northern Spy, Calville Blanc, Rome and Braeburn don't ripen until around Halloween so you can see we have a very long picking season.

 Our peach crop is outstanding and it has taken many hours of thinning so the trees wouldn't be overloaded which not only means tiny peaches but broken branches. We are big into super early peach varieties which actually seem to be more tasty than late varieties-maybe the reason for this is that we have been waiting so long for them!  Or perhaps they are simply tastier!  While we have several varieties of early peaches, our earliest is the Flamin Fury Selection PF1, which originated, as did Redhaven and other of the Haven peaches, right here in Michigan!

Next week me thinks we should be able to start harvesting our beets, SunSugar cherry tomatoes and our Little Red tomatoes, both tomatoes are very popular with our customers-at least after they have tried them!

When you stop at the market make sure you pick up one of our new color brochures.  It has plenty of helpful information including normal picking dates of the produce we grow.