Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Today's bounty

Today's harvest includes:
  1/3 lb carrot roots, 1 garlic scape, 1/3 lb turnip roots, 1/2 lb snap peas, 8 strawberries, and 3/4 lb lettuce.  About half of the lettuce varieties have gone to flower. Tomorrow is forecasted to be 89 degrees. This will probably be the last week of any harvestable lettuce. Deb & I may pick the last of it tomorrow morning (minus the plants we choose for seeding.)  All this lettuce flowering , and still no broccoli florets!!

An unrelated side note: Yesterday I prepared a bottle of water for work with a few branches of lemon balm. It gave the water a refreshing delicate lemon flavor.

A new variety of rose has bloomed. This first year bush has a two tone pink & white flower. What a nice surprise! I had actually forgotten what color it was supposed to be until this first bloom arrived.





Total produce count for the year:

48 strawberries

1.8 lbs carrot roots
2 heads of garlic
4 garlic scapes
4.75 lb sweet/snap peas

15.2 lb assorted dark greens
7/8 lb baby radishes/greens
1/4 lb mature radish roots
43.5 lb assorted lettuce
4.75 lb spinach
2.8 lb turnip roots
2.63 lb miner's lettuce
3/16 lb mache/corn salad
5/8 lb baby greens
1/3 lb arugula
3 asparagus spears
3 trays of wheat grass(inside)
3 trays micro  greens(grown inside)
A countless amount of:
  parsley, basil, peppermint, spearmint, lemon balm, burnet, fennel, thyme, dill, green onions

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