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| Vegetables and a view! Fall colors are nearing their peak. With warm fall weather it's a great time to pick a pumpkin, some gourds and corn stalks, and one more nice bucket of tomatoes or peppers. We've escaped serious frost so far, so most of the vegetables are still here. |  |
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| Vegetable | Remarks |
| Basil | There is still some sweet basil, Thai basil and purple basil. Quality is diminishing with cool weather. |
| Beans | Both yellow wax and green beans are available. Moderately good supply. Picking may be slow and uneven. |
| Beets | We have a few small beets. Picking is slow and quality variable. |
| Broccoli | Quite a few heads of nice broccoli are ready to pick now. |
| Broom corn | Both brown and black varieties available. Great for large bouquets. |
| Brussels sprouts | The Brussels sprouts are late this year. But they finally made it! Some nice sprouts are ready to pick. |
| Cabbage | We have a good supply of large and firm heads of cabbage priced for sauerkraut. Plenty of red cabbage. Some savoy cabbage. |
| Carrots | Good carrots. |
| Chinese cabbage | Moderately good supply of heads of napa firm enough to cut. More will ripen over the next few weeks |
| Chinese greens | Ching chiang tsai, bok choi. Good supply. |
| Cilantro | Limited supply of cilantro is available now. |
| Collards | Plenty of nice collard greens are ready to pick. |
| Dill | Dill heads range from the flower to full-sized green seed stage. Good supply. |
| Dill weed | Good supply of dill weed. |
| Eggplant | Lots of eggplants. Long slender asian types, round eggplant, teardrop shaped eggplant, cylindrical eggplants, striped and pink eggplants are all ready to pick. |
| Flowers | Carnations, celosia, gladiolus, gomphrena, helichrysum (straw flowers), marigolds, statice, snapdragons, zinnias and several other flowers are ready to pick. |
| Flowers to dry | Plenty of beautiful gomphrena and statice. Some helichrysum (straw flowers) also available. |
| Hot peppers | Hungarian wax type, mariachi, cayenne, finger hots, jalapenos, Lao hots, Thai fire crackers, pepperoncici, hot Portugals, serranos and Sante Fe peppers, cherry hots, habaneros, poblanos, anaheims and several other peppers are available. |
| Kale | Plenty of good quality kale. |
| Kohl-rabi | Plenty of large, crisp, juicy kohl-rabis. |
| Lovage | Good supply. |
| Mustard greens | Plenty of nice mustard greens ready now. |
| Oregano | Good supply of nice oregano. |
| Ornamental gourds | Many different shapes and colors of small gourds. Large gourds include swan, bushel, cave man's club, birdhouse and others. |
| Parsley | We have nice parsley ready to pick. |
| Peppermint | Plenty of fresh peppermint to pick. |
| Peppers, sweet | Good supply of green bell peppers, red, orange and yellow ripe bells, and yummy snack peppers, Cubanelle and Italian frying peppers have been picked heavily and are harder to find. |
| Popcorn | Popcorn is ready to pick. It still needs to dry for a week or two before it will pop properly. Yellow, red and blue (purple) types that make great popcorn. Small callico popcorn for fall ornaments. |
| Potatoes | Potatoes ready to store for the winter. Plenty of yellow Finn potatoes. Limited supply of round whites. Other varieties are sold out. |
| Pumpkins | Good crop of pumpkins this year. Sizes from 3 to over 30 pounds. Ready to pick! |
| Radish (Mu, dai-kon) | Large amounts of small and medium sized dai-kon and mu are ready to pick. |
| Salad greens | Lots of leaf lettuce, spicy red salad mustards, kyona-mizuna, young Swiss chard and arugula. Excellent quality. |
| Spinach | Nice spinach. Moderately good supply. |
| Swiss Chard | Nice red, white and yellow Swiss Chard. |
| Tomatillos | Good supply of nice tomatillos. |
| Tomatoes | We have a good supply of tomatoes at a canning price. Red tomatoes, pink tomatoes, paste or Roma tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes and yellow tomatoes. Good time to pick tomatoes for canning, making salsa . . . |
| Tomatoes, cherry, grape and plum | Lots of cherry tomatoes. Red cherry tomatoes, yellow cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, small plum tomatoes. Vine ripe cherry tomatoes can be fragile. Bring a rigid container to put them in (small bucket, plastic box, etc.). |
| Turnips | Nice turnips and turnip greens. |
| Winter Squash | Acorn, butternut, buttercup, spaghetti and sweet dumpling squash are ready to pick. Some squash of other varieties are ready, although many would benefit from another week in the field. |
| Wintermelon | Small crop this year. |
Open Wed, Thurs, Fri 9-12 and 4-dusk
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 Sunday October 12, 2008 6:35 AM
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