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Today at The Tree Farm
 Pick-Your-Own Vegetables and Flowers
and
Cut-Your-Own Christmas Trees
in
Dane County, Wisconsin

The Tree Farm is Open. Hours today are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

For picking today
Cherry tomatoes! Candy you can pick right off the vine. Cherry tomatoes.


For picking today
Vegetable Remarks
Basil Sweet basil, purple basil and Thai basil.
Beans Plenty of top quality green and yellow wax beans. Fast picking.
Beets There are still beets now, but we expect to run out in the near future.
Bittermelon Moderately good supply. Picking is slow.
Broccoli Good supply, top quality now.
Cabbage Green, red and savoy cabbage are ready. Cabbage is priced for making sauerkraut. Heads range up to 12 pounds. There is plenty of cabbage now, but the wet summer was hard on the cabbage, and they may not last.
Carrots Sweet and tender.
Cilantro Very limited supply of cilantro.
Collards Plenty of collard greens.
Dill weed Good supply of dill weed.
Eggplant The eggplant supply is improving. We will start the day today with a moderately good supply of most types of eggplant.
Flowers to cut Black eyed Susans, celosias, cosmos, flamingo feathers, gloriosa daisies, gomphrena, marigolds, straw flowers, statice, yarrow, zinnias, and other flowers are available.
Hot peppers, large fruit Good supplies of green-ripe mariachi, Hungarian wax (hot banana), and Jalapeno types. There are a few anaheim and poblano peppers ready to pick.
Hot peppers, small fruit Green-ripe stage cayenne, cherry hot, Korean peppers, finger hots, pepperoncini, serrano, Hot Portugals. A few are turning red, but the supply of red hot peppers is still rather thin.
Kale Plenty of nice kale is ready to pick.
Kohl-rabi Crisp, sweet kohl-rabi. Excellent quality, good supply. Both medium sized kohl-rabi and extra large kohl-rabi are available.
Lovage Fair supply.
Okra Picking will be slow, but the supply should be pretty good this morning.
Oregano Good quality to dry or use fresh.
Ornamental gourds, dried Dried ornamental gourds for crafts, birdhouses or art objects. Many shapes and sizes.
Parsley Both curly and flat leaf types are available. Good supply.
Parsnips Good crop this year.
Peppermint Good supply and quality.
Peppers, sweet Good supply of green and of purple bell peppers, cubanelle and some European types. A few peppers are beginning to ripen to red or yellow.
Potatoes Round whites, red, fingerling and Yukon gold varieties ripe and ready to store. Plenty of potatoes. Digging is slow due to weeds.
Pumpkins There are plenty of pumpkins to pick. The supply of green pumpkins is dwindling, although they are still there. The supply of ripe orange pumpkins is quite good.
Salad greens We still have green oak leaf lettuce, red oak leaf lettuce, green onions and salad mustards now. The next planting of lettuce is still too small to pick.
Snake gourds Pale green snake gourds or cucuzzi are ready to pick. Limited supply.
Tomatillos Excellent supply, good quality.
Tomatoes Now at canning prices. Good supplies of red tomatoes, paste (roma) and cherry tomatoes. There are even a few pink tomatoes.
Wax gourds Wax gourds, or immature winter melons can be picked.
Winter squash A limited of number of acorn, spaghetti and delicata squashes are available now. It's still too early to pick squash for storage.
Zucchini, summer squash There should be a moderately good supply of zucchini, Middle Eastern zucchini and yellow crookneck squash today.

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 Saturday September 4, 2010 5:53 AM

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