Brae Farm Harvest Notes June 1, 2024

Hi everyone,

The garden is looking good for next week. The only thing we are running low on is large kohlrabi.

We'll do a final harvest of tomatoes and peppers and clear the beds. Let me know if the kitchen would like green tomatoes? They will be smaller sized (mostly unripe blush, jaune flamme, and green zebras).

The punterelle is ready now, and won't hold until we get back in July. 

I've lifted some of the sweet potatoes for storage. We can take a gamble on leaving some of the remaining plants in the ground.

The first romanesco are forming small heads. If one or two are just big enough to pick next week I could send them to the kitchen. I think we're likely to miss the harvest window on a few romanesco, but I'm hoping some will hold, and we have more successions coming on for late winter. The snowball cauliflowers haven't started heading up yet, but they look as though they are giving it some consideration.

We have an abundance of really lovely green sugarloaf cabbages ready now, so it would great if a couple could be used in staff meals before the break. 

We'll hopefully be coming back in July to some nice late brassicas like romanesco, caulis, more gai lan, and plenty of cabbages. There should be plenty of root veggies, fennel, leeks and onions, pumpkins, and radicchio as we head into mid-winter. 

Thanks, Jo 
Jodie Lawson - Brae Head Gardener