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| Sweet peppers at the green ripe stage are abundant. We have Cubanelle peppers (at right) bell peppers (green, yellow green, purple and black), and Italian Frying peppers ready for you to pick. |  |
| For picking today | |
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| Vegetable | Remarks |
| Baby Beets | Excellent quality, good supply, slow picking. |
| Basil | Good supply of sweet basil, Thai basil and purple basil are ready to pick. |
| Bittermelon | A few bittermelons are ready. Very slow picking. |
| Cabbage | We have a good supply of small and medium heads of cabbage ready to pick. A few red cabbages are ready. Please wait for quantities and price suitable for making kraut |
| Carrots | Baby carrots are ready to dig and we got enough rain that you may be able to harvest them. They are very sweet, but, because of our soil conditions this year, some are geometrically challenged. |
| Cilantro | Moderately good supply of small cilantro. |
| Cucumbers, pickling | No pickling cukes today. Pickling cukes have been picked out. More picklers Friday or Saturday. |
| Dill | Dill heads are in the flower to early seed stage. Good supply. |
| Dill weed | Young, small dill weed is available. |
| Eggplant | Good supply of the long slender asian types, round eggplant, teardrop shaped and cylindrical eggplants. Striped and pink eggplants are beginning to ripen. |
| 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. Good supply of gomphrena. Statice is starting to bloom. |
| Hot peppers | A few Hungarian wax type, mariachi and Sante Fe peppers are ready to pick. Others aren't ripe yet, although some will be soon. |
| 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 | 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 at the green ripe stage, cubanelle and Italian frying peppers. |
| Pumpkins | Green pumpkins. These are immature pumpkins. It will be quite a while before they turn orange, but for those who like them green, they are ready to pick. |
| Salad Cucumbers | Beit alpha and asian cucumbers are available. |
| Salad greens | New batch of baby lettuce, spicy red salad mustards, kyona-mizuna and arugula. Excellent quality. |
| Snake Gourd | A very few cucuzzi, or pale green snake gourds are ready. The long, striped Indian snake gourds are not ready yet. |
| Tomatillos | A few "full baskets" can be found at the bottom of some of the plants. |
| Tomatoes | There are a few ripe red tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, pink tomatoes and paste tomatoes. Perhaps tomato hunting is over but picking may be slow. |
| Zucchini And Yellow summer squash | All sizes 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 Wednesday August 6, 2008 8:22 PM
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