Happy Thursday, all! Here’s what you will find in your box this week:

-1 head butter crunch lettuce

-Small bag salad mix -Cauliflower -Zucchini -Yellow Squash -Patty Pan Squash -Cucumbers

I’m so sad this week because the Pac Choi crop unfortunately succumbed to flooding. I was really hoping to have at least one harvest, but unfortunately that didn’t happen. I’m replanting it for fall so hopefully we will have some near the end of the season! This week I’m going to give you a recipe to use two of your basket items: Cauliflower corn salad. It’s super easy and you basically chop everything up, throw it into a bowl and mix it up.

Cauliflower Corn Salad

Ingredients -I head of cauliflower -2 cucumbers -One small red pepper -2-3 green onions -1 can of corn -1/2 cup mayo -1/2 tsp dill -1 bag Chili Cheese Fritos (optional) Directions -Slice the cauliflower into small florets. -Cut cucumber into small slices. -Dice red pepper. -Chop green onions thinly. -Drain the corn. -Mix everything into a large bowl. -Add mayo, salt and pepper to taste, and dill. Mix well! -Add in Fritos if desired. (I love an extra crunch, but that’s just me!)

I also feel like I should give you a recipe for the patty pan squash, since it may be new to some. You can cook it any way you would cook other summer squash, such as yellow crookneck and zucchini. Here's a recipe for my Parmesan lovers out there:

Roasted Pattypan Squash with Parmesan

Ingredients

-2-3 pattypan squash

-1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese

-1 Tbsp olive oil

-Salt & pepper to taste

Directions

-Preheat oven to 400 F

-Slice patty pan squash

-Steam the squash in a steamer basket over 1" of water for 10ish minutes.

-Place squash into a roasting dish.

-Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.

-Apply Parmesan over the squash.

-Roast in preheated oven for 25 minutes.

Honestly guys, I’m really proud of myself because I’ve actually never successfully grown cauliflower before. Like, I put out 100 plants and get maybe 5 heads. This year I finally have it down! I learned so much from my experiences last season and have changed quite a few things, and one of those is sticking to a proper spray rotation (don’t worry, all organic of course!) with brassica crops. I also have determined which crops do better under insect barrier netting and set up my outside rows for that accordingly. The pest that does the most damage to cauliflower are cabbage loopers. They are medium- sized green worms, which in their mature stage are the white moths you see flying around in the summer. These are best controlled with Bt, which stands for Bacillus Thuringiensis- a naturally occurring soil-borne bacteria. This spray is awesome for brassica crops because it is all natural, and the bacteria targets cabbage loopers. Since our season has been so rainy, it’s been hard to keep to a spray rotation with the outside crops, but fortunately the cauliflower are mostly inside the high tunnel. Just in case you think I’m kidding with how proud of myself I am, I took a selfie with my first cauliflower of the season:

So anyway, things are still flooded but the only crop suffering is the poor pac choi. Everything else seems to be loving the rain so far!