Hattie’s Garden delivery/pickup service continues to bring you fresh and wholesome food. We are now taking orders for the Saturday, May 8 Pickup/Delivery Service.

The deadline for placing your order is Tuesday at 8PM. We suggest you place your order as soon as possible to be sure you get what you want, as we do run out of some things.

What’s Available through the Online Order System

The following items are available now to order for pickup or delivery on Saturday, May 8.

Hattie’s Garden brings you the first batch of our Hakurei turnips, a lovely salad turnip. We have everything you need for a delicious salad and more, including radishes, young lettuce mix, pea tendrils, young arugula, cilantro and dill. We will be putting together two types of mesclun — lettuce and arugula and lettuce, arugula and pea tendrils.

Thank you all for your amazing response to the Vermont Compost potting soil. We are completely sold out at this point, and have ordered more for you. The next shipment of soil is due to arrive by mid-May. We are getting two sizes of bags to accommodate those who have different needs. One 60 qt. bag and the smaller 20 qt. bag of Vermont Compost Fort Lite, (a complete germinating and transplant mix, and is particularly desirable for growers using smaller celled flats or hanging baskets) and Vermont Compost Fort Vee, (a compost-based germination and/or transplant mix, designed for *soil blocks, trays, and pots). There is no better potting soil company that I know of.

Totem Farms brings you an assortment of nutritious microgreens and is busy bringing on the produce from their high tunnels. This week they have sorrel, spring lettuce mix, and washed romaine leaves ready for salads. Their herbs are also making a comeback.

Fresh Harvest Hydroponics has arugula, butterhead lettuce, red leaf lettuce and romaine lettuce available.

Chrissy’s Bees (part of Stag Run Farm) has two types of honey available in 12-oz. jars. These are Wildflower Raw Honey and Butterbean Raw Honey. Simply delicious. We continue to have an assortment of jams and jellies from Backyard Jams & Jellies.

AlaskaWild Seafoods family-run business has Pacific Cod, Pacific Rockfish, Coho Salmon, Sockeye Salmon and Smoked Salmon fresh frozen directly from the boat and flown to the east coast every week. We have free-range whole chickens and half chickens from Dittmar Family Farms and wonderful free-range chicken eggs from Twin Posts.

Chapel’s Country Creamery brings us delicious aged and fresh cheese made on their farm using milk from their grass-fed cows. Nancy’s Café has great menu items including sweets, soups, chilis, quiche, scones and more, and we get from a large assortment of fresh mushrooms, including some difficult to find exotic varieties with amazing health benefits, from King Mushrooms.

While we encourage you to use the order form for the Saturday, May 8 pickup or delivery service, we will have our produce and many of the other vendor products we carry, available for you for casual shopping on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Our produce availability is growing as the season progresses.

Mother’s Day is Coming

In anticipation of Mother’s Day, we should have many more flower plants ready for you next week, along with all of our herb plants, tomato, eggplant and pepper plants and other vegetables such as squash, cucumbers and many lettuce varieties. Our latest plant list will arrive in your email on Monday afternoon.

What’s Going on at the Garden

Last week we continued to incorporate our cover crop into the garden to allow it to decay before planting some of our warm weather crops in the next couple of weeks. We planted more lettuce in the garden, more arugula and the first of our Benary Giant zinnias. Drip line is getting installed and shade cloth went on the hoop-house.

We started tray after tray of seedlings both for the garden and for you. We succession plant tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, basil, squash, cucumbers, lettuce, herbs, flowers and lots more so they will be ready for you throughout the month of May and early June. If you haven’t started your garden yet, its OK. You still have several weeks to plant.

We began more extended hours too so you can pickup plants and various food products and produce now during the week on Tuesday and Thursday from 2 to 5, as well as Saturday 9-2. So, if you don’t order directly from the order form, you can show up and get many items here at the garden without planning ahead. We will expand what we have available as the season progresses, but suffice to say, we already have a good amount of vendor products and produce available here for you.

Yours in the Garden,