GA: Broccoli harvest FOY! (piracicaba) And kale and chard too!

2 or 3 of the piracicabas have already sent flower heads up and a few flowers started opening so I harvested them.  Not very big, just enough to snack on during the ride home, none left at home.

Also did a first small harvest of kale and chard.

GA/BY: Harvest so far (seems puny)

Here's what's been harvested so far this year:

kale

chard

broccoli (including a nice head of Belstar tonight)

basil (not a lot though)

stevia

peppers -- mostly jalapeno or hungarian sweet, not a ton -- and all pepper plants look kinda pathetic

garlic scapes from the few garlics that produced scapes

No zucchini yet, though looking at last year the first was July 4th, and this year a few are on the way so it's not that far behind.

Leafy green harvesting galore: kale, chard, broccoli leaves

(The broccoli leaves are from pruning to avoid them touching the tulle, to hopefully avoid cabbage moth egg-laying.)

Alternating with a salad one day, and sauteed the next.  And OMG adding nutritional yeast to the sauteed version takes it to major NEXT LEVEL.

Great greens harvest: Chard (fordhook and barese), kale, lettuce

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Kale galore -- doing great

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First harvest of kale, chard, lettuce (which are all doing great)

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Harvested some of the fall-sown potted kale and lettuce

With a low of -9 or something like that forecasted for tonight, figured I'd better take a harvest of the fall-sown potted kale and lettuce before it goes kaput.  Clipped off the kale and one pot of lettuce, leaving the rest to grow if they dare, and for the second pot of lettuce I didn't harvest any and instead just brought it inside on the kitchen table to live there for a while.

Falafel sandwiches galore -- soooooo good -- kale and broccoli from garden

Rather than just having salads, tried adding falafel (from mix) for some protein.  Didn't bother with pita bread (because, pandemic) and wow I don't miss the bread at all.  SO good.  Have been having these salads for lunch and supper daily.

- kale

- Annie's copy-cat goddess dressing (mix with kale, then add rest of ingredients)

- seed parmesan (home-made is fine)

- broccoli (from garden)

- falafels

- pickled turnips

Kale harvesting galore -- lettuce and swiss chard too

Have been harvesting lots of kale.  Chard isn't being as productive but still getting some harvests.  Tons of lettuce -- and there's no need at all to thin lettuce -- it's fine for it to be super thick, still get lots of harvest.

Lots of kale, lettuce, and chard being harvested for salads

Ok I have wayyyyyy too much lettuce.  No way in heck can I eat it all especially as I'm favouring kale and chard for their more healthiness.

Perfect amount of kale I think, with ~16 or so plants.

Good amount of chard too, with ~10 or so plants.

Making lots of salads with the Transformed Salad kit from Pure Kitchen.  For some reason though I was disappointed, the dressing lacks kick, it's kind of blah, I would have sworn it's not the same dressing as on the Transformed Salads I had, but oh well, still enjoyable.

First salad of the year: chard, kale, lettuce

Very nice!

Hope on the horizon, but bought some seedlings just in case

Hmmm, I dare say all, or at least many, of my sad-looking seedlings look like they're on the up.  Now that they've been in the ground a while and we've had some great sunny warm weather.  Chard, celery, kale, tomatoes, even the ground cherries may have some hope.  But, that's not  risk I'm willing to take!  So, bought 3 ground cherry seedlings at Ritchie's today.

Peppers however I'm not so sure about.  But, they're also not a staple crop, so, bought just 2 pepper seedlings.

Will need to also buy 1 normal and 1 small tomato plants.  This is because I put all my own tomatoes into the bed along the neighbour's house which may need to be torn up this summer to fix her basement leak. 

Harvest: Kale, chard, bok choi

Just like the title says.

For the kale, tried a new recipe.  Kale salad (i.e. chopped kale) with a great chickpea dressing.  So easy, and pretty good!  I omitted the suggested "potato croutons" out of laziness, but will try them sometime.

Used the chard and choi for my tofu / yellow pepper rice dish.

Harvest: Kale, chard, green onions

Woo!  Used some kale, chard, and green onions for a vegetable soup recipe. 

And wow, WHAT a different the multiplier onion sets are compared to the normal onions.  You get soooooo many more green onions!  Multiple little green onions per bulb instead of just one.