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Hi,
Everything is ripening a bit faster than we expected. The sweet corn is probably ripening at its maximum speed. Daytime temperatures between 85 and 90 ripen the corn as fast as it can go. Temperatures above 95F start to slow up the ripening, especially if the soil is dry-and it is starting to get dry fast. While the Sweet Corner Planter is still forecasting July 16 for the first corn, we will be picking it on July 15 since that's when the first patch looks like it will start. I am so sure it will be ready by July 15 that we have a sign down at the market which displays this date for the time we will start picking our corn. The first corn this year is the earliest good tasting bi-color corn I know of-and I have tried plenty of them. As you would guess, it is also not only the earliest corn but it is the smallest eared corn we grow. Because of this for those who buy it by the dozen, we will be selling it as a baker's dozen, which is 13 ears. By next week our second-early corn will start and its average size is a bit larger. It will be about 3 weeks before our Mirai corn will start. We have many plantings of Mirai so we should have a continuous supply of this superb corn from early August until at least mid September. While we did plan on picking our pickling and slicing cucumbers Saturday morning, I was stunned how many we were able to pick. I looked a bit on Friday morning and decided there weren't enough to pick yet-if I looked better we probably would have picked the cucumbers on Friday, although I still feel there wouldn't have been that many ready. Also on Saturday we started to pick the little red tomatoes-they sold out fast. Since we are only picking the SunSugar cherry tomatoes every other day and we picked them on Friday, we didn't have any SunSugar for sale on Saturday. While they won't be ready this week (at least I don't think so), we will also be picking in July our PF1 Flamin' Fury peaches, Quinte and other summer apples and our golden plums. Also coming up in a week or so are our newly famous Newaygo Newaygo sweet onions. (Newaygo Newaygo sweet onions are the same onion variety as Walla Walla onions only we grow them on our farm, which is located in Newaygo County Michigan.) We are starting to pick our dwarf sunflowers and our regular sunflowers should start blooming in a few days. We also are now starting to dig our Yukon Gold potatoes. As mentioned in the last newsletter, we also have good quantities of green beans, beets, zucchini, yellow summer squash and red potatoes.
Nashle, Tom
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