Use Our Garlic For Planting!

Garlic is fun and easy to plant in your home garden. It needs good garden soil, plenty of water and full sun. Prepare a plot now with some good quality compost, and start saving garlic to plant in October. The garlic we sell at market is good to grow here in Colorado. Anytime is good to stock up. Just store your garlic in a cool place in your kitchen - out of direct sunlight. Storing in a paper bag helps keep the moisture in, but lets it breathe.

August 21 Garlic List- See you Saturday!

• Inchelium Red- A softneck variety that is excellent for roasting.   One of the best-tasting softneck garlics with a mild,lingering flavor. Stores to Jan   RED       

• Chesnok Red- Excellent-tasting hard neck garlic, originally from the Republic of Georgia.  One of the best baking and sauteeing garlics.Stores through Dec.           PINK

• German Extra Hardy- Great sliced raw, an addictive garlic taste, with full flavor. Big, easy to peel cloves. Excellent in red sauce: put in at end of heating. Will keep through Nov.  BLUE

The garlic is drying

Garlic Harvest Time- Back July 31st

It's time to harvest the garlic bulbs and then let them cure for 2-3 weeks- and perhaps squeeze in a little camping trip.
We'll be back at the end of July or first week of August with some great looking garlic bulbs.
Remember it's time to harvest your garlic when about 1/2 the leaves turn brown- including the lower ones that have fallen off already.

Pepper Plant Sale! Garlic curls are here!

Sweet Red and Yellow Bells, Sweet Italian, Pepperoncini, Poblano, Anaheim, Thai Hot, Bulgarian Carrot Chile and so many more...

We will have beautiful, healthy pepper plants for $2 each this weekend (the 2 1/2" size). If you can find room for 5 in your garden they will cost you only $9. It's not too late! And, we have some big healthy peppers available in larger pots for $4.

Garlic "Curls" (officially known as scapes) are ready. There will be lots and lots- bring your own bag and we charge $1 for a handful. They are only available this weekend and next weekend. What to do with them? Chop them and sautee lightly in olive oil, serve over pasta, mixed with veggies, in eggs, beans, tomato sauce. Or, chop them raw and mix with egg salad, potato salad, hummus, green salad or salsa. Try grilling them on the grill, too. Store in the fridge and they will keep about 3 weeks.

Does your father like basil? Consider getting him a ceramic pot with Karen's favorite type of basil- Dwarf Greek- for $6.50. This basil is the very sweetest, is easy to grow, and can sometimes overwinter on your windowsill when summer is over.

Creekfest Craziness, Squash, Peppers and Cucumbers

Come from 8am to Noon- We are at the far South End, Near Abbodanza

Saturday May 29th Creekfest will be near and around the Farmer's Market. Creekfest is usually a very crazy day but I will be there selling vegetable plants from 8am to noon. At noon is when the "corndog crowd" takes over, the noise levels get too high for my ears and I pack up my van and walk away from the crowds to a quieter place.

I will be bringing lots of warm-weather vegetable plants: Zucchini, Straightneck summer squash, Cucumber plants (Lemon, Muncher, English and Pickling) Some pepper plants, Tomatoes (Patio, Carmello, Sunray, Sungold and more), Basil (Profumo, dwarf greek and Tulsi)

I am phasing out the cool weather plants, but will have a couple of salad bowls, some lettuce, kale and chard.

Please come early on Saturday to beat the crowds. My spot will be at the far South end, on the East side, 2 stands up from Abbodanza

Lettuces Galore!

Come by on Saturday, April 17th to see the colorful lettuce starts we'll have for you to plant in your garden. I have Romaine (Freckles, Parris Island Cos, Crisp Mint, Red Romaine, Rouge d'hiver), Butterheads and much more. (See the list below of all the lettuces and descriptions)

Salad Bowls! It's just the right weather to have one of these on your deck before the heat hits. Remember that lettuce can take a lot of cold- 20 degrees is fine for them, but heat and full sun can make them bolt quickly and turn bitter.

Peas! Caley will be selling pea plants after 10am. We have 7 varieties of Shelling and Snap Peas including "Tom Thumb" an heirloom from the 1800's that grows well in small containers. You can bring these to the table to use as a centerpiece- let your guests eat them right from the plant!

Garlic! We will have a little bit of garlic, too. Some bags of small cloves for Spring planting of garlic greens, and a few leftover heads for eating or planting. The big crop won't be harvested until July, and is about 4 inches high now.

2010 Spring lettuces from WeeBee Farms
	Australian Yellow	looseleaf	tasty, bright yellow/green
S	Bronze Arrowhead	looseleaf	Gorgeous, taste test winner
	Buttercrunch	butterhead	very sweet and crunchy
S	Canasta	crisphead	red tinged, very sweet
	Crisp Mint	romaine	compact, upright, excellent flavor
S	Flame	looseleaf	taste test winner, heat tolerant
S	Freckles	romaine	a favorite!
S	Grandpa Admire’s	butterhead	mild, tender heirloom, takes heat

Salad Bowls

See you April 17th!

It's been a longer winter than usual- the garlic poked up January 29th last year, and not til March 1st this year. It looks good, so far.
I've been busy seeding plants in the basement, to get ready to sell starting on April 17th.
I will have lots and lots of salad bowl planters, lettuce, kale, chard and other yummy greens for you to plant in your gardens or planters. Caley is 7 now, and has become quite the businessman; always thinking of things he can grow and sell at the market. He plans to have some pea plants to sell in April, some Kitty grass and some eggs from our chickens.
I will have a little bit of garlic for Spring planting. Mostly small cloves to plant in groups to harvest for Spring Greens. You sprinkle the cloves in the garden, cover with about an inch of soil, and water. You can harvest the green shoots several times before they run out of steam. These are great in soups, eggs, salads- everything!