Now that I have only ONE count it ONE more week of traveling left this year I'll be getting back to much more regular updates to the garden blog. And not a moment to soon as you can see from the early harvest that has already started rolling in!
Four of our delicious heads of Romaine lettuce... The lettuce has been CRAZY productive this year. I think we've gone through about 16 heads so far and I have probably 16 more ready to pick as soon as I can find someone to eat them! The leaf lettuce really didn't turn out to be that great, so I think that in the future I'll stick with the Romaine. Not pictured, but also delicious was the huge crop of Radishes that were actually the very first crop to come in this season.
Also first out of the gate were the delicious turnips. They're all up now, but we still have a few left in the fridge for cooking up this weekend! Apparently I didn't take any pictures of the turnips themselves, but the picture to the right are the greens from the turnips... and you can see they pretty much overwhelmed the counter top! I cooked most of them up in a really simple recipe which included both the greens and the turnips along with some cornbread dumplings. Delicious!
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| Planting |
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| Right after first banking. |
So the potatoes are also in flower now. They've come a long way in just a few short weeks from just a collection of little tubers to really quite intense plants as you can see below! Hopefully the little bags are filling up with new potatoes down there!! We'll know soon enough!
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| Potato Plants on June 5th |
In addition to the potatoes, other veggies are starting to show signs that the harvest is progressing right along. While weeding and feeding today I found evidence of the very first peppers and tomatoes!
(Left: Fennel bulbs developing, Center: First Bell Pepper starting to ripen, Right: Green Tomatoes!)
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