More spring harvests are happening here:
I loved the color combination of the greens with the purple reds. The purple leaves are amaranth. I am growing amaranth for the grain, but was thinning seedlings and found that young leaves can be eaten raw as salad. More mature leaves can be cooked like spinach. The great thing about amaranth is that it likes warm weather, unlike spinach. Now I need to check and see how much seed I have left because this seems like a great way to have greens (or perhaps I should call them reds) during the warmer months.
This week I picked 6.3 oz of lettuce, 0.7 oz of radish, almost a pound of onions (15.1 oz), 0.8 oz of kale, and 0.9 oz of amaranth leaves.
I made an egg scramble with onions, kale and feta and had a salad with radish and pecans. Delicious and very spring-like.
The biggest harvest this week was peas at 2 lbs.
We love to eat fresh English peas straight from the pod. It made for a great Memorial Day cookout appetizer along with a nice big salad from the garden. The snow peas I have used for stir fries this week. This week puts my total harvest for 2014 at 2.26 lbs.
That's all the harvests coming from my garden this week, to see what others are harvesting check out Harvest Monday at Daphne's Dandelions.
Must say, jealous of the peas - we LOVE peas around here - my plants are only 3" tall so we have a ways to go. And those onions are lovely. It looks as if the bulbs are attached at the root - are they a multiplier type onion?
ReplyDeleteThose are supposed to be regular onions, red creole I think, so I'm not sure what happened with that one.
DeleteLovely peas. And the color of that amaranth is so nice. I keep thinking of growing it, but haven't yet. I'd love to see what the greens taste like.
ReplyDeleteSo far the baby leaves were good in a salad, not bitter and not tough. We'll see how the older leaves cook up later this season.
DeleteWonderful harvest. And yes the reds with the greens is so pretty!. Envious of your peas. I have thought about amaranth. Not to grow for grains but ti eat and how pretty it seems to look. It might be a substitute for spinach for me too. Hope you will post more about it! Nancy
ReplyDeleteThis is my first time growing amaranth, so I will let you know how it turns out.
DeleteI love amaranth - it's so versatile and grows so well! Here in Aus, I don't seem to have ANY pest problems with it at all, unlike with kale, spinach and silverbeet!
ReplyDeleteSomething has been munching on my amaranth leaves here. I'm convinced that if a pest exists for a vegetable then I have it!
DeleteI am so jealous of those peas! Mine are only few inches short and not likely to produce this year as we went from 40 to 80 overnight. Great harvest overall.
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