It's only fitting that the end of May harvest should coincide with the end of our Spring greens. During the past few days, temperatures have reached into the high 80's and as a result many of our cool weather greens have started to bolt. This seems rather sudden considering that we were experiencing nightly low's down in the 40's only a couple weeks ago. Yesterday, I harvested all of our spinach and as much of the mizuna as I could salvage. I'm really happy with how the spinach performed this spring. The plants grew huge and we ended up with a ton of leaves to freeze.
I also ripped out all of our Asian greens. These will last in the fridge for a long time...hopefully until the snow peas come in. Some of the outer leaves are a bit hole-y from the slugs but these should be fine once trimmed up.
Our lettuces are coming in strong right now. We have to eat as much as we can before they begin to bolt as well.
the photo of your son is adorable!!!
ReplyDeleteWow look at all those amazing greens and radishes!
ReplyDeleteThe garden helper in the last photo ain't to shabby either!
Your greens are gorgeous....and the kid isn't too shabby either :) LOL So Cute!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cutie Jonathan is! And the greens aren't bad looking either.
ReplyDeleteIt amazes me how quickly your seasons turn. The weather around here is still cool and we've even had some rain which is quite unusual for the end of May. Could you share just a little bit of that warm weather?
Awesome greens! What a great picture of your garden helper.
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It looks like Jonathan is a big help in the garden! What a nice present for his grammy :)
ReplyDeleteWe really don't care for radishes either.
Enjoy your day :)
Nice baskets of greens and cutie gardener.
ReplyDeleteSweet and sour radish is not spicy and pungent at all, wonder you've tried it.
So that is where all the warm weather has got to?! LOL! We are still so far below the normal temps for this area for this time of year. I may be only harvesting greens if this keeps up. Your transition sounds like it was rather abrupt and dramatic though - hard on plants and definitely pushes the spring greens to bolt. Your harvest this week was bountiful though as a result. And Jonathon must be a great helper in your garden work.
ReplyDeleteI plant a few radishes every year thinking that I will develop a taste for them. Nope - still don't like them.
ReplyDeleteYour blog has always been so inspirational to me and given me so many ideas! Do you do anything special before freezing your spinach or just chop it up and bag it up? What do you like to use it for besides just eating it cooked?
ReplyDeleteI also grow a patch of radish each year, although I don't like to eat them, but my husband does. Radishes, mustard greens, turnips are a few things I've grown and haven't liked, but I like most veges. I wonder if we'll ever see 80 degrees this summer. We just had two days of snow/rain and no sun. I'm just hoping for some weather in the 60's!
ReplyDeleteGreat photo of little man! Doesn't he eat radishes? I thought I remember you saying that, awesome!
ReplyDeleteI had to pick a lot that were bolting too. I also put in some greens in case we get more cold weather. You just never know. Tomorrow I have to pick some more bolting greens. The Komatsuna is starting to bolt. I put in a lot more baby ones for later. The Yakatta-na is still holding its own. I picked all but tow of them already and they still show no signs of blooming. I remember last summer testing them to see how long they hold in the heat. And they can go very long. Needless to say I've planted more of them too.
ReplyDeleteYour arrangement of spinach is outstanding! Greens are all so gorgeous!
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