Wyck Home Farm lush baby greens on Oct. 3, 2014
Anyone who thinks garden tools should be packed away by the time the leaves start to show their fall colors could learn a few things from Wyck Home Farm. The manager of the historic farm in Germantown, Katie Brownell, was still planting seeds in late September when the last round of salad mix went into the ground (as Katie reported on the farm’s blog).
When I dropped by the Wyck Farm’s Friday afternoon market on Oct. 3 and strolled through the market garden, it was lush with young lettuces and arugula, and baby kales and mustards, even while the last of the summer-planted crops, including tomatoes, kale and collards, and peppers, were still producing.
Young lettuces enjoying cool fall weather at Wyck Home Farm on Oct. 3, 2014
At the market, I bought a bag of tender young arugula and a fat bunch of enormous collard greens. I also bought an equally fat bunch of fleshy kale that included red Russian and what Katie described as a cross of red Russian and green kales from seeds saved from last year’s crop.
Giant collard greens purchased at the Wyck Home Farm market on Oct. 3, 2014