What are you harvesting -Spring 2014

[hendi_alex]

Radish, garlic, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, arugula, onion, bell pepper, leeks, jalapeno, strawberries, mulberries, blueberries, shiitake mushrooms, Asian greens, dinosaur kale. Coming soon cucumbers.

[lakngulf]

Only squash and beans here. Peppers not far off and I saw some silks on my corn today.

[PunkRotten]

Chinese broccoli, garlic, onions, goji berries, limes, some tomatoes, a few peppers, peas (though they are gone now), mint, basil, oregano, rosemary, chives.

[jal_ut]

Omigosh! You guys are so far ahead of me. So far here for spring harvest, asparagus and chives from the perennials and radishes from early planted seed.

[rainbowgardener]

spinach, peas, chard, green onions, chives, celery, lots of herbs. Broccoli has heads and will be ready soon.

[JayPoc]

lettuces, kale, collards, onions (green), chives so far. Broccoli is very close and looking great. Will have to start thinning the basil ASAP.

[hendi_alex]

Just in case you missed my earlier post. Don't neglect the leaves if you are growing broccoli. This spring I blended them in with kale, Swiss chard, and sometimes with mixed Asian greens. The leaves were tender at all stages, didn't even have to remove spines on larger ones. The taste is much milder than collards. Harvesting up to a third or more leaves seemed to have no impact on head formation. It gets hot way too quickly here for broccoli to make much flower head production. As dual use plants, it became much easier to justify the plants footprint in the garden. In the future will grow broccoli both spring and fall.

[JayPoc]

Just in case you missed my earlier post. Don't neglect the leaves if you are growing broccoli. This spring I blended them in with kale, Swiss chard, and sometimes with mixed Asian greens. The leaves were tender at all stages, didn't even have to remove spines on larger ones. The taste is much milder than collards. Harvesting up to a third or more leaves seemed to have no impact on head formation. It gets hot way too quickly here for broccoli to make much flower head production. As dual use plants, it became much easier to justify the plants footprint in the garden. In the future will grow broccoli both spring and fall.

Yeah...I posted about that last year and included a photo. Broccoli greens are awesome.

[applestar]

Egyptian walking onions are at their peak right now. I should really mass harvest them, but have been pulling double handful at a time for the last two days. Chopping them up and freezing.
Today decided to separate into greens, scapes, and non-hollow/solid white and green basal portions. Any suggestions on what else to do with them? Last year, I waited too long and the scape stalks got too tough to be edible.

Salad greens and celery are harvested as needed, but arugula have bolted and spinach are looking like they are starting to go. Harvested perhaps the last asparagus today.

Strawberries are starting to come in. Cherries look almost ready -- maybe another week?

My peas are just starting to bloom and form pods.

Mint and oregano harvest is at halt right now due to heavy four-lined plant bug damage. Cutting off affected top foliage, bagging them bugs and all, and waiting for them to re-grow.

[JayPoc]

See....I told you the broccoli was almost ready.



The biggest head is a little bigger than a softball.

One other tip on using ALL of the broccoli. In addition to the leaves, the stems are also great. My kids will pretty much only eat the florets, but we sometimes slice the stems on the bias into elongated coins and use in stirfry, or we sometimes shred the stems with the box shredder and use that in slaws and salads....

[applestar]

Looks great! When my kids were little I used to serve the florets as "Broccoli trees" and stems, peeled and rotation cut at a diagonal as "Broccoli rocks" (cut at a diagonal, roll 1/4-1/3 away on the board then cut 3/4"–1" off at a diagonal, roll and repeat -- makes them into multi-faceted nuggets). They would eat the rocks before the trees and I used to worry that they were eating the more nutritious part.

[RogueRose]

For me it seems like everything is S--L--O--W this year. I just cut some arugula finally. I usually get a few harvests out of those but I caught it right before it bolted so I am not sure I will get another harvest out of that this year.

This year I grew some Rocket Arugula and this stuff bolts a whole lot slower which is nice, but the yields are not as good. If I were so inclined I'd cross these two.

My peas are also just starting to flower. I thought I was slow on that but I see applestar's are on the same schedule so I guess I'm not as slow as I thought. My peas were eaten by groundhogs but some are still going. I took some out and left some. One stalk was not eaten, go figure.

Garlic is going strong. Lettuce seemed to come in slow. I think I can harvest some in a week or two, finally. Corn and melons are coming in. Planted tomatoes. Although I think I could have planted in more!

Herbs are going well. Peppers planted...

But harvest...not really happening here yet. ::whine::

[jal_ut]

Oops, forgot to mention Egyptian onions, and this eve also some green onions from the sets I planted early .

[Cola82]

I know I started broccoli and peppers earlier than some of you and mine just aren't doing anything. No fair. ;(

I'm only harvesting chives, arugula, a tomato here and there, and mint and basil (not much though). My carrots should be ready soon, though, and I did chop up one broccoli plant that wasn't doing so hot. The leaves were excellent.

[rainbowgardener]

Something is very odd if you are harvesting tomatoes before broccoli.

My broccoli will be ready soon, peas are ready, spinach is starting to bolt, so I need to go pick a ton of it and freeze some. Yesterday I "harvested" at least a half cup of chamomile flowers. Given how tiny they are, that is a whole bunch of them. It is my second harvest of them, the chamomile plants are going crazy. Fresh chamomile flowers smell wonderful.