Gorgeous weekend in the garden. Highs in the 70's, and mostly sunny. It was a pleasure to be outside. I actually harvested 5 things this
weekend...Asparagus, strawberries, radishes, spinach, and lettuce. I don't have shots of the lettuce...I was thinning immature plants and made a salad for Sunday supper. The spinach harvest will be a blog post of it's own later.
I'm reaching the end of the asparagus harvest. If I pick much more of it, I will damage next year's crop. We got enough asparagus out of our little patch to have it as a side dish with supper 5 or 6 times...once a week, basically. It was superior to store-bought.
Strawberries are coming in. This is a big handful that I picked on Sunday. I tend to pick these berries a little early. If I wait for them to ripen to a deep dark red, the birds will peck them into oblivion. They are still sweet even when pink. The key is making sure they are uniformly pink...if the top is red but the underside is still white, I don't pick it.
Dinner and dessert.
Radishes are also ripe and ready, and going into every salad I make these days. The Sunday salad also had a handful of the first snow peas from the garden. In about a week I expect to be drowning in peas.
Lovely harvests. I put my asparagus bed in last year (after a failed attempt elsewhere in the yard) so I can't harvest this year. I so wish I could.
ReplyDeleteDaphne, I have discovered that the only thing harder than waiting for the asparagus bed to become harvestable is making the choice to stop harvesting after 6 weeks.
DeleteI love your harvests, especially the asparagus. I have only just put in my asparagus bed. this year, so, like Daphne, I can't harvest mine yet. I think it would be exciting to get 5-6 meals straight from the garden.
ReplyDeleteCristy, if it were just my wife and I, we would eat many meals just from our garden produce. However, my teenage sons would revolt.
DeleteColorful harvest! The asparagus is impressive.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteAsparagus and strawberries.. yum!!! I moved and need to start over with asparagus, so it will be quite a while until harvest time.
ReplyDeleteI hope the folks who are in your old house treat your asparagus bed right. Good luck with a new bed.
DeleteOnly just now got the radishes, peas, carrots, spinach and beet seeds in the ground! The plant sets we germinated (beets, zuch's, yellow squash, tomatoes) are in the ground but need the protection of water walls to stay warm at night. We desperately need a green house. Lots of sets still in the mud room growing. Will probably plant them next week. The neighbor still hasn't tilled the remainder of the garden yet. You are so lucky to have such a long growing season, but the dirt here is awesome.
ReplyDeleteIn about a month, I'm sure I will gladly trade 90-degree heat and a long season for your black soil and cool Idaho summers.
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