ask them if you can pay 20 each time until you get to 200 and then call it a full season.

I wish I could - but I think they made the fee $20 just so people would sign up for the full season. Bu no harm in asking...

Most markets don't allow that, but it wouldn't hurt to ask. Also, do you get the same spot each week, if you would go week to week? Or do you get moved around wherever there is space? If you get moved around, I'd pay the entire season. People remember not only you, but WHERE you are in the market.

I finally called since I hadn't gotten a reply to my email 2 days ago. They'll let me pay by the week up to max $200 (thanks for suggesting that!) and will also let me have same spot each week (not necessarily same spot in Aug as June if I skip July, but at least the same spot every week once I start coming every week or so). They have a lot of farmers coming just a couple of times a month.

June 19 - grape jelly, maybe tomato plants, strawberries (tips just starting to color up now, when will they be ripe?) and salad greens, radishes, maybe baby carrots? Oregano (I need to thin mine, maybe bring small pots?). I can also bring blueberry and blackberry preserves made from frozen berries.

June 25 - maybe blueberries, basil? Salad greens if they don't bolt? Radishes and/or carrots?

July 3 -skip? Unless I have lots of blueberries

July 10, 17 skip?

July 24 - maybe squash, cukes, wild blackberries, raspberries, dill, basil?

July 30 - Squash, cukes, blackberries, raspberries (?) early tomatoes, herbs

August and Sept - keep up with the squash, cukes, more tomatoes, also should have green beans and then edamame. Could also plant some more kale and other greens, carrots to have for Sept market? Jam and jelly fro leftover berries. Season ends Sept 25.

What ever you can have for July 3, do it. I've found that the day before the 4th can be double or triple of normal days.

Wow, really? I found at old market the regulars didn't come, we did get some tourists who were staying in B&B or camping so weren't buying produce. But this is a new town. Believe me, whatever I have (if it's more than $25 worth) I will bring.

I sold a lot of picnic/cookout type of veggies that day. I could sell more than 5-6 bushels of tomatoes, along with zucchini, peppers, onions and anything else that could make kabobs.

Thing is, I won't have any of that stuff that early. Now, the Wed before Labor Day I'll have it, but would be better to have a Thurs or Fri market before a 3 day weekend.

Any of the BIG holidays, and only 2-3 days MAX before the holiday. The day after or so, forget it. Everybody stocks up for the holiday and don't need anything for a week or so.

Any fruit or finger food should sell well before a holiday.

I keep forgetting that your season is so much later than mine.

Season seems to be getting shorter every year - sometimes we'll have summer weather in April or May, sometimes it will still be winter, and then sometimes goes from one to the other in a matter or days and then back again!

I am thinking we don't get a spring any more - though we are still (knock on wood) getting an autumn. But we go right from winter to summer it seems, makes it hard to have anything for July when I can't put out summer veggies til June.

I believe the climate is changing, not alot at a time, but it is changing. Once you start working with the seasons, you notice changes more.

Yeah, once it starts having a financial impact it really gets your attention LOL!

I can't believe forecast (in town) calling for 42 tomorrow night (actually Wed AM). Not a record low for this early in the month (TWC says record is 34, I don' know when that was), but average is usually mi-high 40's by now. High of only 62 later in the week - I wonder, if I had planted peas if they ould be loving it, or dead by now from the heat? Kale and spinach isn't bitter or bolting yet, head lettuce and Asian greens are germinating well, though a little bleached out from the sun. That looseleaf lettuce just isn't coming up though, I think it got washed down into the woodchips in the aisles. Maybe I should buy some starts to put in (if anybody has some that hasn't gotten bitter).

I hate to do it, but I'm going to hold off til Wed to put in the rest of the tomatoes (partly cloudy, will be better than the sunny day tomorrow, though high will be 75 instead of 90 - though again record is 98 so if that was the same year as the 34 degree low maybe the climate *isn't* changing!).