First Salad 2010

Tue May 04, 2010 12:57 am

This is my first salad out the garden this year.

It's a mix of:

Swiss chard, bright lights
Beet tops, early wonder tall top
Arugula
Leaf lettuce, red sails
Pea Shoots

Tue May 04, 2010 1:11 am

Yummy! I love pea shoots, I think they are absolutely delicious.

Tue May 04, 2010 1:24 am

Looks lovely really. I just wish My lettuce would finally do something.

Tue May 04, 2010 2:30 am

and it was tasty too. :lol:

Tue May 04, 2010 9:53 am

Mmmm! Love those fresh spring salads! I have to go buy more EVOO. I've run out.

Tue May 04, 2010 1:57 pm

you can eat pea shoots?! we have a huge abundance of salad greens right now. eating salad almost every day. enjoy that bowl looks tasty.

Tue May 04, 2010 3:15 pm

soil,

Yes

Like stated above, pea shoots are delicioso.

http://www.freshlink.org/PeaShootFile.html

Tue May 04, 2010 8:22 pm

Anxiously awaiting my lettuce, tomatoes, squash and cukes. I'm munching on some cherry belle radishes right now though.

My lettuce caught some kind of second wind or something; it rained all yesterday morning and almost all of it literally doubled in size between then and today.

Tue May 04, 2010 10:39 pm

Nick D,

Welcome to Helpfull Gardener.

Give it all some time. :wink:

I literally hate the saying literally.

Wed May 05, 2010 1:55 am

Some two months ago I planted an entire 4 x 4 square raised bed with an assortment of old lettuce seed. OMG, it's about six inches high now and we've been eating it for a couple of weeks. It's too early for slugs to be a problem here in Vermont so the harvest is easy and delicious. However, you can only eat so much it.

Wed May 05, 2010 1:08 pm

soil wrote:you can eat pea shoots?! we have a huge abundance of salad greens right now. eating salad almost every day. enjoy that bowl looks tasty.

Hey soil, pea sprouts are super yummy too. Faster to harvest and a slightly nuttier flavor.

Wed May 05, 2010 4:27 pm

thanks for the info you two. will be eating the pea shoots from now on thats for sure. as if i don't have enough greens already though haha. just one more green to add to the salad.

Fri May 07, 2010 12:56 am

I've been eating garden salads for a little while now. I love it. Tonight's salad had from my garden:

2 kinds lettuce
spinach
swiss chard
broccoli (heads, a little bit flowers where it had started to open up a bit, and leaves)
anise hyssop
lemon balm
parsley
dill
borage flowers
sage flowers

plus a little bit store bought stuff for crunch. It was wonderful, all those flavors! The borage flowers have a really interesting, complex, hard to describe flavor that I have decided I really like. The sage flowers are just intensely sage-y.

Fri May 07, 2010 1:01 am

Woo hoo! Nice going. I am a ways off yet for green salad, but did get one batch of asparagus.

Fri May 07, 2010 1:30 am

I'll trade you salad mix for aspargus anytime Jal

I think borage has a taste of cucumber. Very nice mix.