We harvested 7.5 oz of lettuce this week. I pulled some of the oak leaf that is beginning to turn bitter. We have a lot more out there to harvest this coming week.
I picked the bolting spinach, 1.5 oz and the first swiss chard, 3.5 oz. I never have much success with spinach, but I will try a fall planting this year and see if I can get it to over-winter. We're happy to substitute chard for spinach in most recipes. This chard was started inside and put in the cold frame at the beginning of April. Its a few weeks ahead of the chard that was planted outside the cold frame at the same time and at least a month ahead of the chard I seeded directly in the garden.
Harvests this week: 1 pound 2.5 ozHarvests this year: 3.5 pounds
You can see what other gardeners are harvesting at Daphne's Dandelions.
6 comments:
Your chard looks great! Did you direct seed or start in pots? Mine is still tiny.
My overwintered spinach was a huge success, I will do it every year from now on. The Fedco person I talked with suggested "Olympia" spinach, and it was great.
We didn't have a very long lettuce and spinach season. It was cold for so long, then it turned off hot, and everything bolted. But it was good while it lasted.
Suzanne
henbogle,
I started the chard in newspaper pots back at the end of February. I put it in the ground in early April and then when we moved the cold frame in mid-April it got that protection. The cold frame made the difference in helping it take off. A few plants didn't make it inside and they are farther behind.
The chard looks great.
I like that chard and spinach are so similar. I eat the spinach in the spring and once it starts bolting I usually start to pick the chard. I love that I can keep eating from this family the whole harvest season.
I would love some radishes right now. Mine turned hot very early in the year so they had to be pulled out of the garden.
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