The harvests have finally started to come in this spring. Above is the first basket of Asian greens.
Next up was some lettuce. Sometimes I just harvest the outer leaves, but this bed needs to be cleared out in a few weeks for the next crop, so I'm harvesting heads of lettuce. The Red Sails are small heads, but in reality I'm thinning that section so the others have room to grow.
I got a very nice harvest off of my winter spinach. The Winter Giant has long since bolted, but I think I'll get one more harvest out of the Space. I'm never going to grow Winter Giant again. It just doesn't do well in this garden.
And I had two exciting harvest. The first is my kale raab aka kale blossoms. The overwintered kale did terribly this winter. Some died. Some lost all their leaves and the top died. I won't get much of a leaf harvest or a blossom harvest, but what I do get is delicious. It is one of my favorite treats of spring.
The other treat is choy sum. It is a terrible cropper. I get so little out of the space I give it, yet I keep growing it. Some year I must say no. But I do love the tiny crop it gives me. I might get a second wave, but usually if I do it is really small and more tough than the first.
- Greens: 2.91 lbs
- Asian Greens: 1.61 lbs
- Weekly Total: 4.52 lbs
- Yearly Tally: 5.61 lbs $-331.20
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Ahh, so much green, looks great! I'm struggling to get lettuce to germinate this year; I think just old seeds as nothing else seems to be a problem. I love that kale raab!
ReplyDeleteQuite a varied and bountiful first harvest, I need to harvest my kale blossoms. So envious of your choy sum.
ReplyDeleteWow, full baskets are again appearing. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteYou always arrange your greens so nicely. I should try to do that more. Loving the greens this time of year.
ReplyDeleteThose are some lovely greens there! And I know they are so nice to have after a hard winter. I haven't grown choy sum in a couple of years. It is so tasty, but like you say it doesn't make very much for me either.
ReplyDeleteYour lettuce is beautiful. The small heads look perfect for a salad. We all have our "choy sum," the plants we grow not because they are sensible but because they bring such pleasure.
ReplyDeleteWOW!! Nice harvest. Unfortunately I've started my planting late. Yesterday I did some clean up in the backyard and turned the soil and planted some stuff. http://LivingItUpAlternatively.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see baskets of goodies coming from your garden again. I have a hard time with Choy Sum also, it doesn't seem to germinate well in my garden and what does grow seems wimpy. But it's so tasty that I keep trying. There must be some secret that I haven't figured out yet.
ReplyDeleteWow - your harvests have really started to come in! Everything around here seems to be growing so slowly - even the indoor seedlings. I wonder what is up with that.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, you sure know how to grow those greens!!
ReplyDeleteI wish Jane liked Asian Greens. I love them (especially Choi Sum), but I don't get to eat them very often. You always manage to get them to grow well in your garden, despite what you say, and that is a big achievement when you consider that you do not live in an Asian environment!
ReplyDeleteAn awesome green harvest. The texture of the kale blossom looks interesting.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful greens, really very nice. I'm weeks away from getting anything.
ReplyDeleteWowee, that's amazing,, especially mainly from this year's sowings. My harvests are still from overwintered veggies. I did also pick a radish but it was so miserable and snail-eaten that it went in the compost. I've since discovered all the snail hide-outs nearby and 'dealt with them'
ReplyDeleteI continue to be amazed by your production. Great job. What is it that you love about choy sum? I have never seen or had it.
ReplyDeleteI like the taste and texture of it. Choy Sum is the flowering stalks (usually in bud like broccoli except they don't hold in bud very long). It has a mild mustard flavor of something like mizuna, but has a nice tooth to it unlike the other greens.
DeleteLovely greens
ReplyDeleteYour greens look beautiful! I didn't cover my spinach and all of my plants were ravaged by leaf miners, so I just pulled them all out. I did manage to cover my beets, and those greens are looking very good.
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