Hard to believe –
We just finished planting, and it’s already time to start havesting!
If you haven’t visited your plot in the last day or two – especially the earliest planted ones in the middle of the rings – you’ve got food!
Tomatoes
Yes! There are a few red ones out there!
Radishes
Whoops – some of them got away from you and blossomed. You can either wait for them to make seed, then harvest that for winter sprouting, or pull them out and plant some more. They make a great cool weather crop.
Lettuce
Get those lettuces! If they have formed heads, just cut them off, take them home, add vinegar & oil and enjoy! Some of them have already bolted and started to grow tall in preparation for blossoming. You can pull those out, eat what’s good on them (probably the very tops), and plant some more.
If you look at the twenty-foot bed in the northwest quadrant, you can see how to transplant lettuces to multiply your yields. There are about 250 heads of romaine lettuce in there that were all started in one little row in one of the beds. When they are transplanted, and all spread out, they can be a real production garden!
We’ll have some more baby lettuces in the next few days. If you come to the garden on Saturday morning, we can share some of them out to people who want more lettuces for a second crop.
Spinach
Looks like the strange weather got the better of some of our spinach crops. If your spinach has started to bolt and blossom, pull it out and plant something else. Even a second crop of spinach would be good now – that’s another good cool weather crop.
Summer Squash
It’s coming! Get it before it gets you!
Seriously, if you have zucchinni or yellow summer squash, it’s probably ready. There was lots of it out there this afternoon (Thursday, July 23).
Broccoli
Yup. Lots of it. Some of the beds are so overgrown and jungly that you have to dive down through the canopy, but if you planted broccoli, check. It’s probably ready.
Cucumbers
Saw some out there… get ’em while they’re tiny and delicious…
Herbs
Harvest them – cut them back. Basil and oregano and thyme – cut it back so it will grow some more, put it in a basket and let it dry, then store it in a jar for winter.
Don’t Miss the Harvest!
Planting is so much fun, and watching everything grow is cool. But this is the start of the time we all worked for! Don’t miss it – get that food while it’s perfect and delicious and bursting with flavor and nutrients! The more you pick, the more your garden will produce!
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