Now....on to the harvest!
5/8 - 9 ounces of beautiful spinach, which was steamed and eaten at dinner.
5/9 - 11.7 ounces of mixed lettuce.
5/9 - 2.6 ounces of radishes for Mr. Granny's salads.
5/9 - 10.3 ounces of rhubarb, which was immediately baked in a pie.
5/10 - 2.2 ounces green onions.
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5/13 - Earlier in the week I picked only from the small lettuce patch in the kennel garden, and gave this bed a good rest.
The lettuces grew lovely, and were ready for a picking the outer leaves this morning. The red lettuces were not very red, due to our recent heat wave!
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First I picked a basket of Red Sails.
Then I picked a colander of green lettuces, Paris Island Cos, Buttercrunch and Anuenue.
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Last of all, I picked a basket of Yugoslavian Red Butterhead.
I also picked the spinach from the kennel garden, and got a kitchen sink full! This will be steamed spinach tonight, and there should be more than enough left for a wilted spinach salad later in the week.
I've also picked and used chives, parsley and basil this week, but I'm not growing enough herbs to bother weighing them. I used the parsley in a recipe for a delicious, refreshing Tsipora Carrot Salad that I found over at The Novice Gardener. Thanks, Mrs. R!
Lettuce: 39.7 ounces
Onions: 2.2 ounces
Radishes: 2.6 ounce
Rhubarb: 10.3 ounces
Spinach: 27.6 ounces
Total this week: 82.4 ounces (5.15 pounds)
Total to date: 7.18 pounds
A couple or three things happened this week.........
First, our temperatures soared up into the high 90s this past week (a good 20 degrees above normal), and the high winds that were supposed to hit us today haven't yet happened, although the warning is in effect until 11 tonight. Today it's cool, and temperatures are supposed to be back to the normal 70s by tomorrow.
Second, The Gastronomic Gardener sent me a handy little notebook that I can keep in my purse and use for my grocery lists. Thank you, David! Of course, I always write my lists with the pens I got from Jacqui, over at Little Acres Cottage :-) If you want to buy a pen to help her cause, the link is at the top of my side bar. It's a wonderful thing she does with and for abandoned animals.
Last, but not least, the contractor who did such a lousy job of repairing our house siding won $1 million in a state lottery.
Last, but not least, the contractor who did such a lousy job of repairing our house siding won $1 million in a state lottery.
Well, granny, I guess you are loaded with lettuce! Bummer about the contractor though.
ReplyDeleteShawn Ann, yes...the lettuce season has officially begun at Granny's house!
DeleteThat is something about your contractor!! You have so much yummy looking greens. How do you eat them all? Spinach, lettuces, radishes, rhubarb all look so good. We aren't home yet but should be tomorrow and I can't wait to see how things are coming with this up and down weather! Nancy
ReplyDeleteNancy, we have both been eating BIG salads with all of our dinners, I pile lettuce high on my sandwiches, the spinach really does cook down to almost nothing, and we both love it freshly steamed, so it takes a lot for even two 1/2 cup servings. We've not had any trouble eating up all the harvest, but if all the pickings are as big as today's, we'll soon be sharing with family and neighbors.
DeleteGranny, I see you've updated your header with chives; we must have been on the same wavelength. Chives are coming out of my ears at the moment.
ReplyDeleteAbout the contractor, who was the wise guy who came up with "If you work hard and play by the rules, you will achieve anything"? Ah, well, at least you've got your pretty and bountiful salad greens, which is more than I can say for myself.
Mrs. R, I have so many chives, I grow them more for the flowers than for eating! Of course, I do like having them handy to snip into salads and on top of baked potatoes.
DeleteI'm glad I didn't hire that contractor to paint our house, as I was planning on doing before he messed up the siding. I did it myself (with help from Mr. Granny and our son-in-law), and saved several hundred dollars. Now he doesn't need the job anyway :-)
I'm stuffing my face with salad "as we speak"!
Granny, your greens look so delicious!! What wacky spring weather, huh? We've had such wonderful (snowy) weather in MN- my lettuces are JUST starting to sprout. Probably should have started them indoors this year.
ReplyDeleteAnd WOW, that is unbelievable about your contractor.
Kristy, I was afraid all the lettuce and spinach would bolt in that heatwave we had! Luckily they got through it. My lettuce was all started indoors this year, as was most of the spinach. I just recently planted some lettuce seed directly in the garden, but it looks like the birds are eating it as fast as it comes up. I'll have to find the bird netting if I want it for replacing the early lettuce, or else start some more inside.
DeleteHey you didn't have your wind and we didn't get our frost last night. In fact the low was 41.7. Not even close to a frost. Sometimes it is good when the weathermen are wrong.
ReplyDeleteDaphne, that's great that you didn't get the frost. It was a bit windy here, but our official high gust was 28MPH. I think that was happening while I was picking the spinach, because it kept blowing out of the colander!
DeleteFirst you had me laughing, then you had me drooling, now you have me crying. What an emotional blog today! I think I need some prozac. LOL.
ReplyDeleteBarbie, after yesterday's mammogram, an ultrasound and a cardiac echogram, I needed a prozac! I think my doctor overdoes the "complete" physical, then she wonders why I don't come in to see her on a regular basis. Like Mr. Granny says, "We always feel just fine until the doctor tells us we're not".
DeleteI, too, noticed your chive header. My kids were picking and eating my chives yesterday. they love to graze in the garden! However, their breath was not very pleasant the rest of the day. I'd love to have all your lettuce.
ReplyDeleteLangela, if the lettuce grows faster than we can eat it, like the 59 pounds of it I grew in 2011, I'll send ya some in the mail ;-)
DeleteI laughed and laughed about the contractor. Lol. If it makes you feel any better, it is common for lottery winners to blow all their winnings quickly and end up broke and back at their jobs... tho I would hope he'd find a job he was better at if that happened.
ReplyDeleteAnywhere, he is a nice enough guy, I wish him happiness with his winnings. Maybe he'll retire from building/home repair ;-)
DeleteAll your veggies look so good!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Copper Diem!
DeleteLOL..to that cartoon...I have to go in for mine soon...too funny! Great veggies:-)
ReplyDeleteRobbie, it does feel like that, doesn't it, LOL! Mine was fine, so no more torture for a couple more years :-)
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