My favorite harvest from last week never even got photographed. I was going out to take a walk and stumbled across it. The first perfectly ripe strawberry. I ate it on the spot.
The next day eight more were ripe. They didn't match the wonderful sweetness of the first berry. Still it is hard to beat a home grown strawberry.
There were a lot of harvests this week. I picked two baskets of salad greens.
Pounds of spinach came out of the first picking of the spring spinach. It will have one more picking this week before it gets pulled out to make way for the melons.
I dried a lot of thyme.
I picked more bok choy. Last week the photo really didn't show the color as the purple color is not on the bottom of the leaves. But here you can really see it.
Every week lots of roots are getting picked.
And I made a strawberry rhubarb crisp for a BBQ yesterday. The strawberries were the last of the frozen ones from last year. It is good to have finally finished them as the new berries are starting to come in.
- Alliums 0.41lbs
- Greens 5.86 lbs
- Greens Asian 2.20 lbs
- Herbs 0.58 lbs
- Roots 1.97 lbs
- Weekly Tally 11.01 lbs
- Yearly Tally 29.16 lbs, -$272.84
Everything is beautiful, it's going to be hard to top that harvest. The purple choi is really attractive and I'm envious that your choi and radishes are free of flea beetle damage.
ReplyDeleteNothing can match the sweetness of the first berry. You sure had a bountiful harvest, beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBok choys look great! And strawberries... yum!
ReplyDeleteFabulous greenery and I am hugely jealous of those strawberries. We wont see any now until mid Spring at the earliest.
ReplyDeleteI'm in strawberry heaven right now, too. So is the squirrel that keeps stealing mine. He's not fooled a bit by the Granny scarecrow out there, so I had to put some netting over the bed last night. My strawberries are a full month earlier than usual, so I'm already nearly 4 pounds ahead on them compared to previous years!
ReplyDeleteThe purple bok choy is beautiful. I think we all should grow and include more purple vegetables in our diet. The anthocyanins have potent health benefits and we don't know the whole story yet. Besides that, they're beautiful. Susan
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful harvest. I am not harvesting anything right now as the greens have gone by and we are getting ready to move everything else.
ReplyDeleteWhen you see photos of food as good and as fresh as that, you wonder why anyone would want to buy processed food!
ReplyDeleteagreed!
DeleteSo beautiful. I haven't decided if my pac choi is ready to pull yet or not. I think it is suppose to be a smaller variety. I guess I need to find the envelope and find out. It is funny how people north of me are getting strawberries before me. Hmm. Maybe the type.
ReplyDeleteMine that are coming in are Earliglow so you can guess that it is a very early strawberry.
DeleteYour garden is really starting to pour on the production now! The strawberries look divine. My plants are fruiting right now and I am praying the wet cool weather we have currently we give way to a stretch of warm and dry as they start to ripen otherwise they will give in to grey mold again for the early crop. Last year I lost most of the first crop but had an excellent second run with them as it was dryer and warmer by then. Your greens and root crops are beautiful too. The purple bok choy is very interesting, but if I recall correctly from last week you actually liked the green for taste and eating quality better?
ReplyDeleteYes. The purple isn't bad, but it is a bit tougher and more bitter than the green.
DeleteOh those berries look wonderful. I'm tempted to try to grow some again because the rats aren't so prolific anymore, but I'm afraid that if I plant them "they will come". In the meantime I've been buying a half crate of berries at the farmer's market every week.
ReplyDeleteI keep meaning to grow some of that purple mizuna, it's so pretty and would be a wonderful addition to my salads.
It looks like you garden is definitely going into high gear now - how wonderful!
Strawberrys!! Oh, yum! You take beautiful pictures of your harvest! They could be in a magazine. You have reminded me as soon as it isn't so rainy to pick my thyme to dry. Nancy
ReplyDeleteYou are a gardening POWERHOUSE! I bow before your prowess!
ReplyDeleteGreat harvest beautiful greens and those strawberries, yum!
ReplyDeleteAsian greens don't grow well in spring for me here, occasionally I'll luck out, have to wait until fall to try them again.
Beautiful photos of beautiful harvests! I can't take my eyes off those purple bok choy! Where did you say you got your seeds from? I'm tempted to try growing them, even if they're slighly bitter. Can't be worse than radicchio leaves.
ReplyDeleteNo they are no where close to radicchio. I got the seed from Fedco.
DeleteNothing can beat the special taste of the first berry of the year!
ReplyDeleteHooray for strawberries! They look so good. Very colorful harvest this week. I love the purple bok choi.
ReplyDeleteFreshly picked home-grown strawberries are so tasty aren't they. I'm enjoying the pink & white flowers on mine at the moment, they're so pretty but I think it's also the lovely promise of the harvest to come that is making them so welcome!
ReplyDeleteYour are such a good example for me! I am following your advices more than 2 yahrs now, thank you!
ReplyDeleteThose strawberries look amazing!!!!! As does the rest of your harvest! well done!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful greens and strawberries!
ReplyDeleteSuch bounty! Any of our harvests are still a ways away, so your harvests look absolutely perfect to me!
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice if when you publish the other results to include their zone. Since I live in Florida most of the admissions wont help me with what I could expect.
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to see such great harvests.
Thanks
I don't publish them, the other gardeners put in their link.
DeleteIt all looks fantastic. Nice to see that time of year beginning really.
ReplyDeleteHow are you getting strawberries in this awful new england spring this year???? It has been way too cold and dreary this spring down here in the New Haven area!! (CT) I am jealous at how nice your garden looks!!
ReplyDeleteoh so jealous!! everything looks great!
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