Monday, May 18, 2015

Harvest Monday, 18 May 2015

Bok choy, tatsai, mizuna, choy sum, chives, and radishes

Spinach

Lots of kale and a little choy sum

Lettuce and pea shoots

Radishes

Sage, not shown more sage, oregano, and a little parsley

Rhubarb

There was a lot of preserving going on this week. I've dried all the sage and oregano. I've canned some rhubarb. And I've frozen some mizuna, spinach, and kale. And I've eaten a lot of greens. Right now my fridge is stuffed with kale blossoms, lettuce, and radishes. I wanted to pick the lettuce not because I needed it on Sunday but because I had just watered it and it got hot yesterday. I think the cold of the fridge improves lettuce somewhat. So I like to get it in for at least a day before I eat it.

  • Greens 6.18 lbs
  • Greens, Asian 3.19 lbs
  • Herbs 1.78 lbs
  • Peas 0.31 lbs
  • Roots 1.08
  • Weekly total 12.54 lbs
  • Yearly total 18.15 lbs
  • Yearly Tally $-258.61
  • Fruit
  • Rhubarb 2.73 lbs
  • Fruit yearly total 2.73 lbs
  • Fruit yearly tally $-165.33

Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to show off, add your name and link to Mr Linky below.

22 comments:

  1. Lovely display. I need to get my tomatoes planted this week.

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  2. Bountiful and varied harvest. What do you do with all those radishes?

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    1. Salads. Straight as a snack. Cooked in stirfries. Grated in okonomiyaki.

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  3. I love all those radishes lined up in a row! I'm with you on the lettuce. I like to harvest it in the morning when it's cool, then get it in the frig and cooled off ASAP.

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  4. Hopefully we will soon have as good a salad crop as you have.

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  5. Very lovely selection of greens! And love the row display of radishes :)

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  6. Your rhubarb looks wonderful. My plants did not come back this year, likely because they were old. It's very disappointing because I love rhubarb compote and desserts. It also mixes well with my apples for freezing. Your sage is beautiful.

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  7. Your greens look beautiful. Just a few more weeks before I see anything.

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  8. I am always so impressed by how many beautiful greens you are able to bring in! I am excited to harvest my rhubarb this week.

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  9. Wow - your greens have really started to come in! I just transplanted out most of my Chinese greens in the last couple of days, so it will be a while before I see anything. How are you finding the pea shoots, btw - have you found that you are ok eating them?

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    1. I haven't tried them yet. I'm a bit afraid to do it. I so hate getting sick. I will sometime this week though.

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  10. The photos are beautiful, especially the radishes! What a fabulous harvest this week.

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  11. I agree about the benefits of chilling lettuce, I often times give the lettuce a quick soak in ice water just before using it, it makes it more crisp. I love the radish lineup!

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  12. Nice beautiful harvest, the greens and radishes look so good. Hope you don't get sick from the pea shoots, are you using it in salad or cooked?

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  13. Terrific-looking harvests. Especially love the invading army of radishes.

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  14. Even though I have been gardening, I did not get round to take pictures of my harvest which is mostly herbs, I will share next week - but I thought I'd let you know that I made a Three Garlic Cake with the wild garlic that I foraged last Monday. I am loving your kale, its very different to what I have grown and I adore how you have lined up your radishes.

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  15. Looks like you are making up for lost time after a terrible winter.

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  16. WOW. Very nice harvest. Your crops are in full force.

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  17. Your season gets going quickly, what a great selection this week! Those radishes look very cool. I don't think I'll get any this year, the snails have feasted on them instead.

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  18. Your greens look beautiful. Just a few more weeks before I see anything.

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  19. oh daphne, all that lush green leafy stuff - just beautiful, and so nutritious looking! I think we are all envious of you.

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