This year, we expect another good crop of figs. Look for CSA shares to include fresh figs for several weeks in late summer as our Chicago Hardy fig tree, a reliable producer since 2010, is joined by younger Atreano and Brown Turkey fig trees coming into bearing age.
Also expected:
• basil (Italian, lemon, purple & Thai)
• beans (yardlong, various pole)
• beets ("Red Ace")
• broccoli (Piracicaba)
• Brussels sprouts
• burdock root
• cabbage (Chinese, Savoy, & Tronchuda)
• carrots (Chantenay & Nantes)
• celery ("Tango")
• chard ("Bright Lights")
• chervil
• chives (garlic)
• cilantro
• cucumber ("Diva" slicing & Mexican sour)
• daikon
• dill
• edamame ("Shirofumi")
• eggplant (Asian &
Italian miniature)
• epazote
• fennel (bulb)
• garlic (Alan Paton's softneck, California softneck, Russian hardneck & scapes/green garlic)
• kale (various)
• leeks ("King Richard")
• lemongrass
• lettuce (various)
• limebalm
• lovage
• maxixe
• melokhiya
• melons (various)
• mint (chocolate peppermint & spearmint)
• mustards (various)
• nasturtiums
• okra (Burmese)
• onions (cipollini & "Walla Walla Sweet")
• oregano
• pac choi
• parsley (Italian flat leaf)
• parsnips
• peas (snap, "Sugar Ann" & "Sugar Snap")
• peppers ("Carmen" Italian sweet & chiles)
• pineapple sage
• potatoes ("All Blue", "Caribe", "Rosegold", "Swedish Peanut" & Fingerling)
• quillquina
• radishes (French breakfast)
• rapini (Hon Tsai Tai)
• rosemary
• sage
• salsola
• savory (summer & winter)
• scallions
• scorzonera
• shallots
• sorrel
• spinach
• squash, winter (various)
• strawberries
• sweet potatoes
• tarragon, French
• thyme
• tomatillos (green & pineapple)
• tomatoes ("Chadwick" cherry, "Juliet" saladette, "Principe Borghese" drying/paste & various slicing)
• turnips (purple top & salad)
• zucchini/summer squash (various)