My first tomato if it really counts...it fell off of a transplant I bought! It was green and I put it in the window sill to ripen up!
I had my table filled with lettuce 3 times this week, over 6 lbs. In the front there is some chard, cilantro, the last of the peas, and a few strawberries!
My kids wheel barrel full of Red Russian Kale below. More than 4 lbs! A little chard sitting on top too! And a bucket full of lettuce that also filled up my table! I need a salad spinner! A big one! I blanched some of the kale, and the rest I am going to try making my first kale chips! I might save a little for some sandwiches or something.
We don't normally have salads for every meal, or even often for that matter. So my kids asked me this week if we were going to be having salads every day! Yep, for a little bit! Until it is all gone! I did share some of my lettuce with a friend. 3 gallon sized bags full!
Finally, I was very excited this week to get a freezer! I have added my first garden produce to it! This ought to come in very handy! It isn't a very big one, but it'll be fine for us! Until my boys are teenagers and I can't keep enough food in the house!
Happy Harvesting and don't forget to visit Daphne's to check out some more garden produce!
Finally, I was very excited this week to get a freezer! I have added my first garden produce to it! This ought to come in very handy! It isn't a very big one, but it'll be fine for us! Until my boys are teenagers and I can't keep enough food in the house!
Dang, that's a lot of greens!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the new freezer! I love my freezer and don't know how I would do without it. That is a HUGE pile of greens!
ReplyDeleteI am jealous of all your Kale! I wish I had planted some in time.
ReplyDeleteAnd your freezer - awesome! I need one of those too!!
Isn't it great to be able to share your bountiful harvest with friends. You are a very generous gardener. Wish we have some lettuce soon, have not eaten any this year. Looking at yours make me crave for some.
ReplyDeleteYou. Filled. A Wheel barrel.
ReplyDeleteWow.
(It may be your kids', but still, it looks like a lot!!)
That is a lot of green! Wow!
ReplyDeleteYour 19 month old reminds me of my 18 month old! Begs to go outside and doesn't mind forgetting his clothes.
What a fabulous harvest. I had to pull all my lettuce out today as it was getting bitter. It was so sad.
ReplyDeleteHa ha! Yes it is a lot of greens! Thanks everyone! My husband told me he wants his counters back! Does a gardener ever have free counter space?
ReplyDeleteNartaya, yes, he loves to go "side"! And it doesn't matter what he is wearing or even if it is raining!
Oh how I would love to have an extra freezer! But sadly we don't have any room for one, not even in the garage. Your red russian kale, is it overwintered from last fall, or is it spring planted? If latter, then it must've have grown big really fast!
ReplyDeleteThe kale was spring planted. We barely have room for it!
ReplyDeleteThen you have some super kale growing in your garden! And it will probably be the last green in your garden to bolt, so I hope you're ready to put up with it for a while longer! :-)
ReplyDeleteOh wow, that is a lot of kale! Nice haul!
ReplyDeleteI actually pulled it all out to make room for some other stuff, and thought I had enough! It didn't appear to be bolting yet though!
ReplyDeleteWow! That's some harvest!! I just made some kale chips myself!
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