Monday 6 June 2016

Harvest Monday: June 6, 2016


It's all about greens this week.  I am very grateful for the rains we had Sunday and I expect plants to explode a bit over the next few days. But for now, I've just got some greens to harvest.  This batch includes (clockwise) black kale, white Russian kale, spinach, mustard, radish.

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15 comments:

  1. Wow, that really is a nice collection of greens and beautiful radishes as well.

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  2. Wow, that really is a nice collection of greens and beautiful radishes as well.

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    1. With all of the hot weather, I thought my greens would be a mess (especially the kale) but I guess I've watered enough and they came out pretty healthy.

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  3. Hurray for White Russian, which was in my harvest basket this week too. It's lovely that the greens are up and going - after all or work, we are finally being rewarded with some good eats.

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    1. I am so happy the greens are finally kicking in - I've had greens envy for a while now looking at everyone else's blogs.

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  4. Great job on the radishes and greens.

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  5. We had some nice rain too which has made things grow here. You have some lovely greens!

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    1. Thanks Dave! I was soooo happy when it finally rained!

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  6. Ditto on the rain. I worked furiously Saturday to get as much planted as I could before the rain. It's nice you are also getting radishes with the greens.

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    1. Me too, I got all my cucurbits in before the rain hit!

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  7. Your spinach and greens look amazing. I haven't been able to grow spinach successfully at all in Kentucky.

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    1. Yes, I can imagine. I struggle with greens bolting early on but it must be a lot worse in your area.

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  8. Yep, we finally got a soaking too. Lovely greens, is there a big difference between black kale and white Russian kale?

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    1. For me, I find the black kale (Nero di Toscano) is thicker in texture (more like broccoli leaf) and maybe white kale has slightly more of a sweeter flavour. But not a whole lot of difference ...

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  9. Yep, we finally got a good soaking too. Plants are happy and definitely will be exploding.

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