Monday, March 19, 2012

Harvest Monday 3/19/12

We have now skipped spring and moved on to summer.  It was 86 F (30 C) this afternoon!  I have a feeling the peas are not going to approve of the "spring" weather.  The good thing about all the warm weather is the garden has gone from a slow crawl to racing full speed ahead.

The lettuce and spinach have provided for plenty of salads this week with 4oz of each:


I may have previously said that I harvested the last of the fall broccoli, but I guess I lied because I ended up with 5.6 oz more.  I promise that this really is the last harvest as I pulled the broccoli to make room for the recently arrived asparagus.

My most thrilling harvest this week was a carrot.  Yes, one lone carrot is thrilling in my garden.  I planted carrots back in September, so to finally pull a full size carrot (2.9 oz) was the highlight of my week.  The seeds I planted was a mix of orange, purple, red, and white carrots.  I still can't wait to harvest the other colors.


Buried somewhere under the lettuce was one little radish.  Most of the radishes have bolted and are adding some pretty flowers to the garden.

The biggest harvest this week was 1.4 lbs of turnips.  I had one mega turnips and lots of mini turnips:


Weekly total: 2.5 lbs
Yearly total: 17.86 lbs worth $33.91

To see what others are harvesting check out Harvest Monday at Daphne's Dandelions.

Happy Gardening!  

8 comments:

  1. How does a flower of the radish look like? Got any picture? Please post.

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  2. great looking carrot and turnips! Our weather is terrible crazy, warm and mild, then blam! snow!

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  3. So are white carrots good to eat? I have seeds for a mix but the last couple of times I've sown it they been dug up by the birds so I'm yet to try them.

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    1. As a disclaimer, I've been waiting so long for a carrot, that any carrot would be delicious! However, the white one seemed very mild and slightly sweet. If I can harvest all the colors at once, I'll do a taste test.

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  4. Lovely spring harvest. This weather is just crazy! I'm just waiting for Mother Nature to surprise us!

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  5. Nice looking greens. The turnips have such gorgeous colors.

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  6. Wow, that is mega! What do you do with it? I have never been a big fan of turnips but apparently they are popular in France, which must mean they are good :-) But I have no idea how to cook them so they come out nice!

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    1. I turned these into mashed turnips- basically cook them like potatoes. Some of them were a bit fibrous- probably that big one- so it wasn't the best turnip dish.

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