This is my submission for Daphne's Dandelions Harvest Monday collection. I was quite busy last week work-wise and, between late nights and all of the rain, I did not spend much time in the gardens.
But I managed to get caught up and had a good look over the weekend. The basket of greens shown above is a combination of Kindle lettuce (intended to be butterhead style, but I couldn't wait for the heads to form) and Italian large leaf basil. I finally had my first real salad!
I also had another nibble of spinach (seriously, just stood there at the sink eating it because it wasn't enough for anything else) and some radishes.
I've got some hot peppers already on the way (inside the greenhouse and outside) and plenty of flowers on the few tomatoes in the greenhouse. Looking forward to the coming weeks with something a bit more substantial to harvest.
I tend to toss those kinds of harvests into a salad or a stir fry depending on the harvest. Though nibbling it over the sink seem a good choice too.
ReplyDeleteYep, I had another small batch of leaves at some point in the week which I tossed into a pasta salad.
DeleteI love seeing tomato plants in bloom. And your lettuce and basil is looking fantastic.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing you're getting peppers already. We had hundred degree weather last week (38 degrees Celsius) so a lot of the blossoms on my peppers dried up and fell off before they even opened.
I do have a few that have fallen off as well. I actually got quite an early start on my peppers indoors so I'm probably more advanced than I normally would be. I also spotted a jalapeno and an ancho pepper on the way.
DeleteHurray for fresh salad! I'm probably a week away from the first lettuce harvest & I can't wait; kale salad is nice but there's something about fresh lettuce leaves - I really miss them!
ReplyDeleteLooks like you are going to be enjoying fresh tomatoes weeks before me...lucky you! I'm a long way from tomato blossoms, although my peppers do have a few buds on them. The plants themselves are still quite small, though - I should see if I have any photos of them from this time last year. Maybe that's how they are supposed to be at this stage.
I do tend to get an early start on tomatoes and peppers. But the only tomatoes that have flowered are those in the greenhouse - the others are way behind! Funny, I'd take kale right now if I could. I had a tough time getting it going with our hot summer so have just started some more plants.
DeleteLooks like lots of future tomatoes coming on the vine! It's too hot in summer for me to grow peppers or tomatoes in the greenhouse. Cukes are about the only thing I've found that will take it, and even then they wilt a lot during the day.
ReplyDeleteOur summers do get hot and humid here, but I'm quite further north. I've got them all in containers so can move them (with some difficulty I'm sure) out of the greenhouse if it gets too crazy. I thought about putting a cuke in there but didn't get around to it (and maybe I could actually grow a watermelon for once!).
DeleteI love to eat my greens right at the sink! That way I don't have to share ;-)
ReplyDeleteSometimes my first little harvests don't even make it out of the garden. I think those first nibbles are the best tasting ones. Your peppers are far ahead of mine which are barely starting to form flowers.
ReplyDeleteNice that you have a greenhouse to supplement. Your basil looks nice--mine seems to have not liked transplanting and is looking pale.
ReplyDeleteWhen I transplant basil, I do it chunks - like 20 plants at a time into one medium sized container. That way, I don't have to fiddle with the delicate seedlings.
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