…you might be dyslexic.
Just a quick update regarding this week’s harvest:
Veggies don’t follow the normal weekly schedule we humans enforce on each other. The start of the veggie week is whenever the veggie decides its week starts. And each veggie makes its own schedule. With this in mind I thought I would let you know that the melons have decided to start their week today. So we started harvesting the melons and plan to give them out today.
Why am I making a special announcement? Mainly because as we all know from last year’s newsletter, melon’s — or more specifically cantaloupe melons — are climacteric. They will ripen off the vine. Since we want to try to get you a melon that will survive the trip home we are harvesting them potentially a bit under-ripe. I say potentially because they in fact could be ripe, we just don’t know. I do know that melons tend to soften as they ripen so to tell if it is ripe you should give it a gentle squeeze. Once you feel it is soft enough you can cut it open, give it a taste and decide if you made the right choice! of course if you cut it open too soon it won’t be as good as if you waited. And if you cut into it too late it may be over-ripe and mushy or start to rot. This is one reason that melons are my least favorite thing to grow.
We also may not wash them quite as well as we wash other veggies mainly because we don’t want to introduce pathogens into the end of the freshly cut melon. Maybe we are being over-cautious or just lazy, but we’d rather not make growing and delivering melons any more difficult. So they may be a bit dirty.
Today the the melons will mostly go out in the delivery boxes. Over the next few weeks as we harvest them we will give them out ensuring that everyone gets one. So be surprised if it turns out to be your week but don’t be disappointed if it isn’t your time yet. Everyone should get at least one sometime in the next couple of weeks.
As always, feel free to send in questions, comments, suggestions, etc.
Today’s Joke of the Day
Why do melons have big weddings?
They cantaloupe.