Market Report for August 12, 2016

It was another busy, busy night at the Toledo Farmers’ Market.

Kristi had a table full of her delicious bakery including twisty’s, kolaches, rolicky, cookies, bars, rolls, and some cucumbers. Cindy and Rod had boxes of tomatoes, and cucumbers. That would be many, many tomatoes. Vernon and Wilma brought eggs. Vicki had rolls, brownies, jams, hand made burp rags, stuff giraffes, potholders, and quilts. Darold’s table held beautiful gladiolas, taters, tomatoes, egg plant, hot peppers, jalapenos, and green peppers.

Chuck and Ginger brought okra, peppers, onions, broccoli, summer squash, cucumbers, leeks, taters, popcorn, pies, breads, and kolaches. Jim and Penny had plenty of honey, honey sticks, comb honey, and lip balm. Tom and Nancy brought tomatoes, cucumbers, acorn squash, zucchini, peppers, and an assortment of buffalo meat. Dawn had jams, rhubarb, white grapes, onions, peppers, tomatoes, taters, green beans, French long beans, fresh herbs, including dill, cucumbers, cabbage, beets, and a few kohlrabi.

Cheryl had some new hand made towel sets, bowl holders, and scrubbies, along with her ceramics’. Cheryl also brought a basket of ceramic pieces you can purchase to take home and paint yourself.

Marie, Brenda, Ethan, and Lois had tomatoes, green beans, green peppers, egg plants, zucchini, and summer squash. anice had tomatoes, muffins, pies, butternut squash, Bob’s honey, instant oatmeal mix, and her cute apron on. Jim was under his tree with his handmade leather items. Joe and Barb were back with breads, small pies, granola, leeks, cucumbers, egg plant, green peppers, and onions. Janet had cookies, eggs, party mix, and breads. Karen had the smelliest table at the market with her soy candles. This was Kathy’s last week with kolaches, rolls, snack mix, cinnamon twist, asiago rolls, Danish, and nut coils.

You still have plenty of time to get to the Toledo Farmers’ Market and make your purchases of fresh home grown produce.

It’s time to plant those cool weather crops of kale, spinach, radish, turnips, collards, green onions, peas, lettuce, broccoli and kohlrabi just to name a few.

Cool weather crops grow best when daytime temperatures are in the 70s and 80s and nights are in the 40s and 50s. Most greens will taste sweeter from a fall planting. Did you know that besides keeping fresh veggies on your table beyond the summer months, there are other benefits to gardening in the fall?

First there are fewer insects and diseases to battle, less watering to be done, and you don’t sweat as much. I

f you choose not to try planting some cool weather crops, just come on out to the Toledo farmers’ market and make your cool weather crop purchases. See you at market.