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Did you know Suzie’s Farm delivers in San Diego five days a week? Not only that, several acres of our farm in San Diego’s Border State Park is dedicated to custom growing for the specific needs (and imagination) of our local chefs. Can you say boutique and convenience all in one breath? You don’t have to. Just say Suzie’s Farm. Visit our Chef's Page to view our delivery schedule and learn more about our partnership with restaurants.
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After weeks of 62 degree weather, we finally have 82 degree weather. Hot and sticky. The heat makes you want to slow down and take it easy. The plants do the opposite.
Eggplant, okra, tomatoes and melons are all warm season crops. If you look at the agronomics you will see a temperature range. At the low end of the range the plants languish, unwilling to come out and expose themselves to low temperatures and lack of sun. At the high end of the range, the plants unfurl and explode. Its like your magic song that gets you on the dance floor. The plants are ready to party, like Paris Hilton when the paparazzi emerge.
Summer vacation was actually created for work; to get the kids on the farm. Stop your silly book learning and get this food in! Summer vacation equals winter sustenance. Not 100 years ago and not now. 100 years ago you put those kids to work. This weather revs plants into high production. If you didn’t stay on top of it, you starved in the winter. Harvesting, weeding, threshing, canning and pickling were what you did in the summer. Longer days allowed for longer harvest times. Resting is for winter time. Summer vacation is no vacation.
Winter plants chill. Greens grow, you cut them and they come again. Beets, carrots and onions bulb under ground protected from the snow. Broccoli cauliflower and cabbage thrive, growing slowly. Indifferently. There is no explosion in winter. Winter production is quiet. Winter production is steady. Winter production is diligent.
Not so in the summer. Summer production is passionate. Summer plants blaze and peal. Summer is fireworks; bursts and flares.
Most of our summer vegetables are actually fruits. And like fruit, they are delicate. Melons, squash, tomatoes, okra and eggplant are all fruits by the classic definition. They contain their seeds in the edible part of the plant. Fruit is ready when it’s ripe. Common sense, yes? Since we pick our products when they are ripe, by the time you get them they are well on their way so you’ve got to eat them fast. Maybe this is why your box isn’t lasting as long as it does in the winter? Winter vegetables love to live in your refrigerator. Most summer vegetables love to live on your counter, where they continue to ripen.
And so summer vegetables are like summer in that way. Hot. Sticky. Fleeting.
Enjoy it while it lasts.