Thank you for the suggestions - I did take a look at my local allotments to see what was being grown and could see kale and leeks but I will add your other suggestions to my list.
Today's Pickings
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Many seem to be posting threads, with photographs of their harvest, (and rightly so, as many are very impressive), so I hope you don't mind if I join in.
Another stone or so of rhubarb (I've used two stone for wine, have another stone in the freezer, made three batches of jam and lost count of how much I have given away) shows how poor a summer it's been weatherwise.
Usually rhubarb goes dormant here before the end of June, as temperatures rise, and, if lucky, we get a second flush in September as "summer" abates, but it's been so cold and wet this year, it's still growing.
The savoy cabbage on the left is approx. 3 lb and is destined for tonight's dinner, with the left-overs used to make a big batch of bubble & squeak, with home-grown onions and potatoes.
Then we have three courgettes (zucchini) to go with the dozen or so already in the fridge, 2 aubergines (my best attempt at growing them so far, as I'm well into double figures), 11 little cucumbers, delistar and superbel, all female varieties, with fine skins which mean no peeling, and a beautiful, if delicate flavour.
The bottom row has an ice-cream box crammed to overflowing with tomatoes; the standard ones are f1 Nimbus whilst the large cherry tomatoes are the delicious Maskotka, which I've posted about previously.
The beans fill and overflow from a 5 litre plastic tub. I'm picking this amount of them every day.
If you grow Rhubarb in the dark in clay pots it is very sweet not sour. Sun turns Rhubarb green same as potatoes turn green. Black plastic $5 trash cans work but I have a terrible time keep wind from blowing trash cans away. We have a lot of 40 mph wind in spring.
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Harvesting hügelkultur container grown lettuce today. Two of these tubs have supplied us ample fresh lettuce all winter long. I sure wish I had discovered these containers much earlier in my gardening life as they are a boon for fresh greens through winter.
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First pickings (actually thinnings) of the spring carrot crop which has been in the ground since late last Oct. The main crop will be harvested in about three weeks now with growth really taking off. ..but these will do fine until then.
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Thanks, Tetters. Yes, I'll admit those should have been pulled a month ago...but so it goes.
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My spring onions harvested which I today are from last year's onion crop that sprouted in storage and subsequently were planted in the garden in Dec.
Good way to make onions out of an onion. Oh, the carrots were just innocent bystanders.
Good way to make onions out of an onion. Oh, the carrots were just innocent bystanders.
Why did you cut all their heads off ? We always use the tops - same as the bulbs
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These are intended for freezing and not eating fresh. I find the tops from these "recycled" onions don't freeze well. So, I remove before chopping 'em all up.
If eating fresh, yes, I would leave them on.
If eating fresh, yes, I would leave them on.
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I've found it very difficult to grow celery here in Eat Texas, but instead have found a replacement that arguably exceeds it, i.e. Bok Choy.
Bok choy is a variety of Chinese white cabbage that falls into the cruciferous vegetable category and part of the Brassica genus of plants and is native to China where it is reported to be the most widely eaten brassica vegetable.
It is especially great in stir frys and any dish where one would use celery. We get a good crop now every spring and fall which adds a nice variety to the diet.
The carrots are now a fixture in just about every "picking" for the next few weeks. May is one of the greatest months here for harvesting veggies and these are just the beginning.
Bok choy is a variety of Chinese white cabbage that falls into the cruciferous vegetable category and part of the Brassica genus of plants and is native to China where it is reported to be the most widely eaten brassica vegetable.
It is especially great in stir frys and any dish where one would use celery. We get a good crop now every spring and fall which adds a nice variety to the diet.
The carrots are now a fixture in just about every "picking" for the next few weeks. May is one of the greatest months here for harvesting veggies and these are just the beginning.