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Welcome to the Magicland Farms' newsletter for the week beginning August 19. We hope to keep you up to date with the happenings at our farm, along with providing
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Boss's Corner Hi, As you probably can tell from our new banner (see above), OUR CUT SUNFLOWERS ARE BACK! We will be starting to cut them from our new patch tomorrow. Since we only sell freshly cut sunflowers, they will last about a week if you keep them out of the sun and change the water every other day. Yesterday (Saturday August 18), Annemarie was told by a couple of customers that our Bi-Color Mirai corn was too sweet so the customers purchased either our Magic Bi-color or our all white Rembrandt. (We also had some all yellow Colorrow corn but apparently yellow sweet corn isn't that popular anymore.) Keep in mind this: sweet corn, like peas and some other vegetables, start to change their sugars into starch after they are picked. Two days after most types of corn are picked the sugar is all gone and it has a flat taste. With Mirai, however, there still is some sweetness although after two days it is just slightly sweet. In other words, if you think Mirai corn is too sweet, just wait a day or so and it won't be! While our first field of muskmelon has been almost completely picked, our supply at the stand is small and quickly growing smaller. That's the bad news. The good news is that we have a second patch that should start in about two weeks. As a substitute, we have sweet, tasty watermelons--both seeded and seedless. We started picking our canning tomatoes on Friday. However, the first picking is sold out but we will start picking again tomorrow. By the afternoon we should have a decent supply of canning tomatoes. Unless you live close by or pass our stand after work, I would recommend you call ahead. Use our 924-2761 number since that is right at the stand and someone there can let you know our supply. Alternatively, you can place an order. Our starting price is $10 a half bushel or $18 a bushel. Our price will only go down if the quality goes down. It will go up if we have lots of rain and picking gets harder due to cracked tomatoes and disease problems. By the end of the week we will have Roma (also called Italian, Plum or Paste) tomatoes for $12 a half bushel. We are also again selling beans by the half bushel. Again, call ahead or place an order. Price for beans is $14 for a half bushel. Our winter squash (acorn, butternut, buttercup, Heart of Gold, etc.) crop is doing well. We plan on having a good supply of winter squash for the Labor Day weekend.
Nashle, Tom |
