Red Sails, Anuenue and Buttercrunch lettuce.
Olympia Hybrid spinach and a stalk of celery from an overwintered plant. I didn't get any celery at all from those plants last fall, and they are all (3) growing beautifully this spring!
Lettuce: 1.8 ounces
Spinach: 3.1 ounces
Celery: .7 ounce
Total today: 5.6 oz.
Beautiful mix for your salad! Isn't it nice when something surprises you with nice growth during the spring after it didn't produce for fall!
ReplyDeleteShawn Ann, the greens are chilling and my mouth is watering! Yes, the celery was a pleasant surprise. I almost dug it out, as it was right where we were setting the kennel. It ended up in the middle of the plants, one inside and two outside, but that's fine. I took a bite and it wasn't nearly as tough and stringy as what I grew last spring. I hope the plants produce well, because I didn't plant any more!
DeleteYour celery plant survived the winter? Wow I have to stop pulling out my plants. But I just couldn't imagine it living through all that cold.
ReplyDeleteDaphne, these were some I started when my spring plants were a dud. They got planted out mid-summer, and never did a darned thing. I just never got around to pulling them, because they were green. Who doesn't want to look at "green" all winter? I was quite surprised to see that stalk this week, and more are forming. My overwintered broccoli turned out to be no good after that first little harvest, so let's hope the celery does better.
DeleteYour greens are doing nicely! Great surprise to find a little celery. I was lazy and didn't weigh all my little bits this week. Sometimes I have a salad and my husband doesn't. Sure was a lovely day here! Nancy
ReplyDeleteNancy, I was posting on your blog just as you were posting on mine! It was windy here today, and we have another freeze warning for tonight :-(
Deletewow what a great first harvest!
ReplyDeleteMrs. P, it's about time!
DeleteWell, the season of taunting Sue with Spinach has begun, I see..........
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Hey Sue, come look at my purty spinach! C'mon, Sue...see how it grows so green and tastes so darned good. don't you wish you had some? Dontcha?
DeleteYour greens look so yummy. Makes me really regret getting off to such a late start planting my seeds this spring.
ReplyDeleteRachel, we ate every last leaf of them last night. Through the winter I always forget just how good fresh picked greens taste.
DeleteCongrats on your first harvest of 2013. I am so behind this year, I hope to harvest some squash and zucchini in about six weeks.
ReplyDeleteKris, my entire garden is way behind this year. I'm usually picking 4-5 times that much lettuce and spinach by now, and big salad onions and radishes. My onions and radishes are still tiny. I'm not even thinking about squash and zucchini yet, we're still getting predictions of 20s some nights! It was supposed to warm up two weeks ago, but the forecast keeps changing and not for the better.
DeleteHurrah for that tough celery plant. It is always surprising how much can actually over winter. I have my spring crop of celery in the ground and it is starting to really get growing this week. I think they have settled in and liked the rainy and cool couple of weeks we just had. Sunshine and warmer weather this week which the celery may not appreciate as much, but I know I will!
ReplyDeleteYour lettuces look delicious. I need to give my greenhouse container of lettuces a shot of some fish emulsion tea to wake them up. They did not spring back very fast from my last hard harvest and I am hungry for fresh salad.
Kitsap, I think my lettuce needs a kick in the rear, too. It's certainly not growing as quickly as it should. I amended that bed so well this spring, I thought it would be bursting with huge plants by now. Didn't happen.
DeleteLooks really nice. I have got to coax some lettuce out of this garden. Maybe I'll go work on the small shady bed. . . Your gardens always look super impressive to me, as do your harvests.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Stefaneener. I hope I can coax the lettuce all through the summer again. Last year was a fail, but the year before was a success. I usually plant way too much, but we've really been big salad eaters since we've been dieting, so now I wish I'd planted more!
DeleteYay! I think I may be able to get one salad out of the one lettuce plant that overwintered LOL
ReplyDeleteHeck, it's almost May and I've only picked enough for one salad. That's nothing to crow about!
DeleteFOOD. Nom Nom. :D
ReplyDeleteLOL, Cloud, it will have to produce more than this or I'll starve to death!
DeleteJust right simple and pretty.
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