Summer CSA (July 22)

My CSA share box gets seriously heavy in July, what with the tomatoes, potatoes, and melons. This was the harvest for this week: peppers, cucumbers, squash, eggplant, slicing tomatoes, "cherry" tomatoes, potatoes, watermelon, and a smooth skinned cantaloupe:

After the watermelon had cooled I split it and discovered it had yellow flesh! I can't remember ever tasting a watermelon as sweet as this. I emailed Sammy (the farmer) to get the variety name and to see if it was a hybrid or an open pollinated variety—if the latter, I could save the seeds. He said it was a hybrid that he got from Johnny's Selected Seeds, but couldn't remember the name. I looked on their site and Sunshine looks like it might be the variety. It was unbelievably good:

I also love the variety of "cherry" tomatoes Sammy grows. They rarely make it past the first day: