The harvests have started to ramp up a bit in the garden. This week featured salads with lettuce, mizuna, and chives most days for lunch. I also got a little bit of cilantro. The cilantro didn't overwinter much this year. But the few plants that did are starting to bolt so they had to be picked.
Later in the week featured my sage. I picked a lot and dried it for later in the year.
I forgot to take a photo of the harvest itself, but my kale was starting to blossom. I eat the kale flowers as a sort of poor man's broccoli.
And my over wintered spinach was starting to bolt too, so I picked the little that was good and froze it for next winter. I still have a few packets left from last year that I'm eating up.
I went out about every other day to pick lettuce to make sure I had enough for my lunches. I wash the leaves when I bring them in so lunch is easier to make that way.
My favorite part about this week's harvests are the radishes that I've started picking at the baby stage. I think I like them best, not for their taste (for me cilantro wins in that category), but they are so colorful amid a sea of green in the garden.
And one of my lunches with leftovers and salad. It makes for an easy lunch.
Asian Greens: 0.20 lbs
Greens: 1.99 lbs
Herbs: 0.88 lbs
Roots: 0.33 lbs
Weekly Total: 3.36 lbs
Yearly Total: 3.68 lbs
Tally: -485.12
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Beautiful greens and love the bright radishes. I'm surprised your kale and cilantro overwintered with this brutal winter cold. Nothing made it in our garden, even cabbages died off.
Oh! The kale blossoms. I never thought of that. The way we go through broccoli around here I should start doing that! Thanks for the idea. Lovely harvest. I can't believe how much you are getting already.
I'm surprised that cilantro overwinters for you. I love to add some color to my green salads also, that's why I started growing purple mizuna and pac choi. They are best harvested as baby greens since they bolt more easily than their green counterparts, but that makes them perfect for salads.
Lovely spring harvests! It's amazing how much you can overwinter even with a really cold winter. I've never thought of eating a kale flower, I will have to try that.
What a lovely variety of greens to have for your daily lunch, lucky you! All we have here are alliums and what we can forage, though the asparagus is starting to look promising...
Gorgeous radishes! I hope to have some in a few weeks. Our big garden tasks (namely, planting the hedge that will someday double as a fence), made me a little late on some of my early plantings this year.
Beautiful baskets of greens! Yummy looking radishes! Mine are so puny! I have curly Kale and that looks interesting letting it flower and eating like broccoli. Maybe I will see if I can try that! Nancy
Beautiful kale plants. Since you harvested the flower stalk may be you will get many side shoots.
ReplyDeleteI am so so envious of all of your greens, esp. your cilantro/coriander - I have never had much success growing it.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful greens and love the bright radishes. I'm surprised your kale and cilantro overwintered with this brutal winter cold. Nothing made it in our garden, even cabbages died off.
ReplyDeleteOnly certain kales will overwinter here. I've found the curled type are very hardy though. The Dwarf Blue does really well and the Winterbor does OK.
DeleteOh! The kale blossoms. I never thought of that. The way we go through broccoli around here I should start doing that! Thanks for the idea. Lovely harvest. I can't believe how much you are getting already.
ReplyDeleteAmazing that your spinach would winter over, though I guess you had good snow cover. I'll think differently about the kale flower.
ReplyDeleteSpinach is very hardy and will even overwinter in a zone lower than mine. I did lose a few but not many.
Deletewe love kale flower buds MORE than broccoli! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that cilantro overwinters for you. I love to add some color to my green salads also, that's why I started growing purple mizuna and pac choi. They are best harvested as baby greens since they bolt more easily than their green counterparts, but that makes them perfect for salads.
ReplyDeleteLovely spring harvests! It's amazing how much you can overwinter even with a really cold winter. I've never thought of eating a kale flower, I will have to try that.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely variety of greens to have for your daily lunch, lucky you! All we have here are alliums and what we can forage, though the asparagus is starting to look promising...
ReplyDeleteGorgeous radishes! I hope to have some in a few weeks. Our big garden tasks (namely, planting the hedge that will someday double as a fence), made me a little late on some of my early plantings this year.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful baskets of greens! Yummy looking radishes! Mine are so puny! I have curly Kale and that looks interesting letting it flower and eating like broccoli. Maybe I will see if I can try that! Nancy
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