This Week's Harvest

Clockwise from upper left: Red Detroit beets, pak choi, flowering brassica and oak leaf lettuce.


Anticipating more frost and possible snow, I harvested most of my beets last week. Half were medium sized and the rest were baby beets. Despite wishing that they had more time to get bigger, I was really happy with how they tasted.


New this week - I picked the first of my flowering brassica. I probably should have waited a little longer but since the weather has been so unpredictable lately, I didn't want to risk losing them to a hard frost. The ideal time to pick them is when the first buds just begin to open. The larger leaves are a bit tough but the main stalk and buds are very sweet and tender...almost like asparagus. I will most likely grow this in place of fall broccoli as it is much less susceptible to pests and faster to mature.


Also new this week - Easter egg radishes. These are tasting crispier and much milder than the red altaglobe radishes I harvested a few weeks ago. I think it is mostly due to the colder weather.


From left: Hakurei turnips and Easter egg radishes.

Finally, as part of my fall cleanup. I harvested the few remaining flowers on my zucchini plants and then pulled them up. These were a bit of a let down this fall but I'm looking forward to starting them again in the spring.

If you'd like to post your own harvest or read about what other people are harvesting, head on over to Daphne's Dandelions.