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| The season is here for tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and flowers. |  |
| For picking on Wednesday | |
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| Vegetable | Remarks |
| Basil | Lots of sweet basil, Thai basil and purple basil. Plenty for pesto. Excellent quality. |
| Bittermelon | A few bittermelons are ready. Very slow picking. |
| Cabbage | We have a good supply cabbage, including red cabbage, savoy cabbage and large and firm heads of green cabbage priced for sauerkraut. |
| Carrots | Baby carrots are ready to dig. They are very sweet, but, because of our soil conditions this year, some are geometrically challenged. |
| Cilantro | Some cilantro is available. |
| Collards | Collard greens are ready to pick. Leaves are young and tender. |
| Cucumbers, pickling | Limited supply. Pickling cukes are winding down for the year. |
| Dill | Dill heads are in the flower to full-sized green seed stage. Good supply. |
| Dill weed | Some dill weed is available. |
| Eggplant | Lots of eggplants. Excellent quality. Long slender asian types, round eggplant, teardrop shaped eggplant, cylindrical eggplants, striped and pink eggplants are all ready to pick. |
| Flowers | Calendula, carnations, celosia, cosmos, cleome, gloriosa daisies, gomphrena, helichrysum (straw flowers), marigolds, statice, sunflowers, snapdragons, zinnias and several other flowers are ready to pick. |
| Flowers to dry | Helichrysum (straw flowers) are at the right stage to pick for drying. Plenty of gomphrena and statice. |
| Hot peppers | Hungarian wax type, mariachi, cayenne, finger hots, jalapenos, hot Portugals and Sante Fe peppers are ready to pick. There are a few cherry hots, Lao hots, Thai fire crackers, pepperoncici, poblanos, serranos and anaheims. Others aren't ripe yet. |
| Kale | Kale is ready. Young and tender |
| Kohl-rabi | Plenty of kohl-rabis. Sweet and juicy. Good size. |
| New Potatoes | Nice sweet new potatoes. Round white, Yukon gold and round red varieties available. |
| Okra | Very limited supply. |
| Oregano | Good supply of nice oregano. |
| Parsley | We have a limited amount of parsley ready to pick. |
| Peppermint | Plenty of fresh peppermint to pick. |
| Peppers, sweet | Good supply of light green, dark green, purple and black bell peppers, cubanelle and Italian frying peppers at the green ripe stage. Some bell peppers are starting to ripen to red or yellow. A few snack peppers are ready. |
| Pumpkins | Green pumpkins. These are immature pumpkins for those who like them that way. There are also a few orange pumpkins, but most of the crop needs another month or so to ripen. |
| Salad Cucumbers | Very limited supply of beit alpha and asian cucumbers. |
| Salad greens | Leaf lettuce, spicy red salad mustards, kyona-mizuna and arugula. Excellent quality. |
| Snake Gourd | Cucuzzi, or pale green snake gourds are ready. The long, striped Indian snake gourds were picked our Saturday and need another week or so to grow. |
| Tomatillos | Quite a few nice tomatillos are ready to pick. |
| Tomatoes | We have a good supply of tomatoes at a canning price. Red tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, pink tomatoes, paste or Roma tomatoes and yellow tomatoes. Picking may be slow for paste tomatoes and cherry tomatoes. Supply of other types is fairly good. |
| Zucchini And Yellow summer squash | Limited supply of zucchini, Middle Eastern zucchini and yellow crookneck squash. |
Open Wed, Thurs, Fri 9-12 and 4-8
Sat and Sun 9-5
When you pick it, you know it's fresh
Please bring your own containers.
The Tree Farm
The Pick-your-own Vegetables Place
Cut-your-own Christmas Trees on December Weekends
In Northwestern Dane County, Wisconsin, serving Madison and the surrounding area
8454 Highway 19
Cross Plains, WI 53528
608.798.2286
Picking information updated Tuesday August 19, 2008 6:42 AM
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