Ah, the vegetables of summer! Today’s baskets include lettuces, summer squash, cucumbers, yellow beans, tomatoes, swiss chard, garlic, red onions, radishes, sunflower sprouts, and the first of the potatoes.

It was a last-minute decision to include the potatoes (a little to make up for the lack of beets which were judged still too small for harvest). The variety is Norland, and they will be lovely simply boiled. They don’t need peeling — the skin is tender and quite delicious, even in mashed potatoes.

The Rocdor yellow beans were seeded this year in the lower part of the garden, and with the recent rains their beds are very mucky. This explains why many of them have earth clinging to them. We harvested the beans barefoot, sunk to our angles in the mud between the beds!