Well, the weather has been amazingly "favorable" for the cool crop, but the lettuce, onions and arugula are the first to offer themselves to the fresh garden salad:
Red Sails, Black Simpson and Majesty:
[img]https://drphotography.smugmug.com/photos/I-77v8mhf/0/O/I-77v8mhf.jpg[/img]
Wild Italian Arugula:
[img]https://drphotography.smugmug.com/photos/I-GbXgdwT/0/O/I-GbXgdwT.jpg[/img]
And adding some onions, New Big Dwarf tomato, Italian Parsley, and a salad for four:
[img]https://drphotography.smugmug.com/photos/I-X6572dV/0/O/I-X6572dV.jpg[/img]
Happy gardening and many tasty treats of your home grown goodness this year!
Regards,
D
Jal - son enough, your garden will flourish too! Our spring is very very unseasonably warm this year, so I'm adopting...
Marlin - indeed, I love majesty! I've tried it first time about 3 years ago, and it is in the ground every season now. Slow to bolt, always crisp, and what a color!
Apple - next thing you know, they will be turning to full size in the matter of weeks
And speaking of micro-greens, here is my little patch (some packet I picked up at the Home Depot) and very happy that there is a good mix of colors :
[img]https://drphotography.smugmug.com/photos/I-2NPcJFd/0/O/I-2NPcJFd.jpg[/img]
Going to start another patch in a day or two, so there will be endless supply of greens through entire spring/early summer.
Happy gardening all!
Regards,
D
Marlin - indeed, I love majesty! I've tried it first time about 3 years ago, and it is in the ground every season now. Slow to bolt, always crisp, and what a color!
Apple - next thing you know, they will be turning to full size in the matter of weeks
And speaking of micro-greens, here is my little patch (some packet I picked up at the Home Depot) and very happy that there is a good mix of colors :
[img]https://drphotography.smugmug.com/photos/I-2NPcJFd/0/O/I-2NPcJFd.jpg[/img]
Going to start another patch in a day or two, so there will be endless supply of greens through entire spring/early summer.
Happy gardening all!
Regards,
D
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This morning, I had a salad of arugula and beet thinnings, claytonia, young radicchio and kale leaves, sweet potato leaves from slip shoot tips that needed to be trimmed so they don't get burned by the lights, and green onions. I added last year's ground cherries from the freezer for color and tomato substitute. Tuna salad and lemon juice instead of dressing plus a handful of raw pecan halves
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last night's salad:
mostly chickweed I pulled off the aging compost pile when I dug that, with turkish rocket, good king henry, lovage, pea shoots, sorrel, parsley, mint, thyme, a single small volunteer lettuce, a small yacon left over from last year (diced), and a bit of cheese.
it's good to be that season again.
mostly chickweed I pulled off the aging compost pile when I dug that, with turkish rocket, good king henry, lovage, pea shoots, sorrel, parsley, mint, thyme, a single small volunteer lettuce, a small yacon left over from last year (diced), and a bit of cheese.
it's good to be that season again.
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