In the basket are some tiny cabbages. I need to get them in earlier next year. They were just too small. Each of them are about a third of a pound each. I guess they will be good to make cole slaw for one. Even small they will keep pretty well for a couple of months but not much longer. Also in the basket are some kohlrabies. Both green and purple. I gave a couple to my townhouse mates. I don't find kohlrabi keeps that well. So when I want slaw it will be made from this first. Or I'll just eat them with dip. That is probably my favorite.
The big washtub was filled with carrots. I've packaged them up in some plastic boxes in the fridge. They will keep for a long time that way. Last year I chopped most of them up and blanched and froze them, but I'm not going to do it this year. I think I have enough space (barely) in the fridge to store them long term. Like the cabbages these also needed a couple of extra weeks to really size up well enough. I'm going to try to get them in earlier next year to see if I can get a great harvest instead of just an OK harvest. The one year they were planted in the circle garden they got to be 14" long and some over an inch in diameter and oh so sweet. But that is the sunniest and warmest spot and I'm reserving it for melons and sweet potatoes. And they just don't get out of the garden earlier enough for carrots.
I don't have a lot left in the garden. I have more than enough Asian greens to pick until they freeze solid. I have spinach, some herbs, and I might have some broccoli. Maybe. When I pick it I'll find out if the aphids have ruined it or not. But the majority of harvest is in. Though the harvest was lower this year than in past years, it was still respectable and fed me well. And as I mentioned in my last post, will continue to feed me all winter long.
- Carrots 9.06 lbs
- Greens 5.56 lbs
- Greens, Asian 5.80 lbs
- Herbs 0.35 lbs
- Weekly Tally 20.78 lbs
- Yearly Tally 523.41 lbs, $1085.63
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I was struggling to get a sense of scale from your picture. Were the cabbages normal and the michihili simply enormous? I see now that the cabbages are kohlrabi-size - I'll bet they take amazing.
ReplyDeleteI've grown wary of chinese chives since I last let one form a seed head - now they are popping up everywhere, and their roots are so strong and stubborn! I love potstickers - my tummy is rumbling just thinking about yours.
Great November harvest. For making pot stickers, the frozen Chinese chives are fine. Did not have luck with my kohlrabi this year, next year will be better, I hope.
ReplyDeleteFor those of you who grow Brussels sprouts, I linked up my recipes for them. Your small cabbages can easily sub for the Brussels sprouts. :-) Those look great, btw, even if small. Haven't had luck with cabbage myself. I'll try my hand at Brussels next year. Who knows I might get lucky.
ReplyDeleteNine pounds of carrots is good. I really need to try to grow more fall carrots. The do last a long time in the fridge crisper draw and we eat carrots with everything. Your cabbages may be small, but they look very tender.
ReplyDeleteA very respectable harvest given the near Thanksgiving date! Oh for so many carrots! And I've found too they last a long time in the fridge. Cute little red kohlrabi. I've got six in now and they're doing well so far. I've never grown them or eaten them.
ReplyDeleteYour cabbages look better than mine. I'm planning to use mine for soup.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever tried leaving your carrots in the garden? Mulch them deeply and they won't freeze. We keep apples in the refrigerator and the ethylene from the ripening apples takes away the sweetness of the carrots. Thus I use a root cellar because I can't leave them in the ground at the community garden.
I haven't done that, but I know if I do that I'll ignore them once the snow hits. That area of the garden tends to drift. And I have both carrots and apples in the fridge, but the carrots are in an airtight plastic box so shouldn't have troubles.
DeleteYour cabbages and carrots look great! My fall carrots are very small, well actually all my carrots tend to be ridiculously small. I'd love to grow even a four inch carrot, let alone a fourteen incher! But I know what you mean about needing to get those fall plantings in sooner, if only the summer plantings allowed for it!
ReplyDeleteI think it's probably a good thing that your Michilhili cabbage is not as big as the previous one, since you're not feeding the Five Thousand!
ReplyDeleteI love those Michihili cabbages, even the small ones are impressive looking. And I would love to have that carrot harvest, my poor things are struggling, between birds pecking at them, sow bugs nibbling on them, and aphids colonizing the crowns my crop is pathetic.
ReplyDeleteLovely harvest as usual. Wish I could win on carrots - I suspect MUCH more soil development is required. Your little cabbages may be small but I bet they taste wonderful!
ReplyDeleteTiny cabbages, perfect for halving or quartering and roasting up!
ReplyDeleteThat's a very good harvest you have there, I like meal size cabbages, they are much more easier to deal with.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up, my dad used to make a stir-fry made exclusively with garlic chives, mushrooms and some kind of meet. It's so mild that it's treated more like a vegetable. I'm sure freezing it would be fine. Usually I pre chop before freezing and then just grab a couple handfuls for soup.
ReplyDeleteA nice last big harvest for you. Great that you have had lots all summer and now put away for the winter! Nancy
ReplyDeleteI'm really enjoying having garlic chives at the moment too. I could do with some cabbages, however small, to use with them in my pot stickers though.
ReplyDeleteHey Daphne, the music garlic does keep well. It is extensively grown here in Ontario. I've planted it since 2008 and it has always done well.
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