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Harvest Monday

April 23, 2012

Happy Monday, everyone!!!

Well, I think the warm weather just might be around for good.

This weekend temperatures reached well into the upper 70s and it actually felt hot outside while I was working in the yard…Not the nice yummy spring warmth I’m used to, but an almost uncomfortable heat that reminded me to stock up on sunscreen this spring!

Yesterday, just as I was thinking I should get ready to pull the over-wintered greens before they bolt, I saw that the kale was getting ready to do just that.  So, I spent a couple of hours pulling about 80% of the kale and chard and all of the lettuce.  I haven’t processed the kale and chard yet but will in the next day or so…and, of course, it’s looking like we’ll be eating a ton of salads this week!  I left some of the chard and kale in the beds in the hope that I’ll be able to continue harvesting for a bit.  If I can’t though, I hope to save some seeds 🙂

The clear bags are gallon sized…
4 bags of chard & 2 bags of kale…
with all the air pressed out of them.
The 2 bags in the back are actual grocery bags
filled to the brim with lettuce.
After pulling all the greens, I cleaned up the new holes in the beds a bit and actually sowed a few rows of corn.  It might still be too early, but I thought it was worth a shot…especially if the weather woman is right and we’re done with freezes 🙂  Time will tell!  I also planted some bush beans (trio and black) and some soybeans around the bases of our fruit trees, which is new, so we’ll see how that goes this year, too!

This weeks totals:

  • Chard = 5 lbs 13 oz
  • Kale = 3 lbs 7 oz
  • Lettuce 3 lbs 12 oz
  • Eggs = 34
Happy harvesting!
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13 Comments on “Harvest Monday”

  1. Nice haul of greens there. Yep, all my kale and chard bolted, had to pull all of them last week.

  2. A busy week for you all those greens ready for the fridge, great work.
    Good luck with the early corn.

  3. That is a lot of kale, chard, and lettuce at one time! What a bountiful week it was for you.

  4. we were 96 today; about 4-6 weeks early. I planted some extra early corn already; in fact it’s about 4″ tall, I should probably plant another go-round. I have a grandson that could live on corn on the cob

  5. Wow that all looks great. I wish I had planted some lettuce earlier. Maybe in the fall!

    1. Thanks Kelly! And, yes, there is always next season, right?! That’s one of the beauties of gardening 🙂

    1. Yes! I love to think about all the healthy goodness that comes out of our garden 🙂 Thanks for popping by!

  7. We’re thinking the warm weather is here to stay too. Tomorrow was our last frost date last year. It’s still kinda scary to plant stuff. Good for you to take a shot at it. I hope you get early corn as a result. Great job this year overwintering greens. It made for a nice early harvesting season!

    1. Thanks Jody! I really just want to plant everything but am forcing myself to wait! If it doesn’t freeze, I should have some succession plantings and harvests to look forward to…if it does freeze, well, I won’t loose everything 🙂

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