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Hi,

Two years ago we made a test planting of Mirai sweet corn. Last year we expanded this planting and this year we expanded it again. Mirai sweet corn, I decided, was as flavorful as the very best of the old fashioned varieties and it was even more tender. Of course the big feature you will know immediately is its sweetness. We've had a few customers mention they thought it was too sweet. If you feel this way simply wait a day or two before you eat it! While it is a rather tough corn to grow well-germination and early growth is often poor-we feel its quality is worth the effort. For more information on Mirai corn you can visit the Twin Gardens Farms website at www.twingardenfarms.com. While we have made sizable plantings of Mirai, we also have planted the same sweet corn varieties we have used for years, including several plantings of white kerneled Sugar Pearl. We will be starting to pick our first planting of Mirai on Tuesday.

            While we have been picking our large red tomatoes for about two weeks, our supply has been low and if you only stopped at our market in the afternoon you may have never seem them down there. Well by the end of the week we should have enough of the large red tomatoes so we will have some down there in the afternoon as well as morning. However, it will be two weeks before we will start picking our canning tomatoes. We are still picking our Little Red tomatoes and our SunSugar cherry tomatoes.

            As I think I mentioned earlier, our peppers are doing exceptionally well-last year they did exceptionally poorly because of those nasty microscopic mites. It looks like we are starting to harvest what may turn out to be a record pepper crop. While our famous Newaygo Newaygo sweet onions are winding down, we also have yellow and red Sweet Spanish onions almost ready to be pulled. While the Sweet Spanish aren't as sweet as Newaygo Newaygo onions, they (as you can guess from their name) are also a sweet onion-and fresh sweet onions are the tastiest.

            I expect this week to pick our first ripe muskmelon and perhaps ice box sized watermelon. Nonetheless, supplies will definitely be low this week-many more will be ready next week.

            We are done picking our PF1 peaches and are now into our Candor. While PF1 are definitely clingstone, the pit of the Candor will tend to break free when they are very ripe. We also will soon be picking our Early Red Haven (Early Red Haven is the name of the variety of the peach and is not just Red Haven picked early. Early Red haven are quite similar, but not identical, to Red Havens.) Also sometime this week we will start picking our early Golden Plums, which are juicy and sweet and in previous years been extremely popular. We have a nice crop of these delicious plums this year.

Nashle,

Tom