We've been eating the spinach in salads as well as soups.
The same bed that has the spinach and corn salad is also home to Red Russian kale. The kale had died off during our sub zero weather, but came back from it's roots and should reach harvestable size in another week or two. Everything else in the garden was killed off.
Lots of spring seedlings are growing in the greenhouse. I'm hoping the ground will dry out in the next couple of weeks so we can start planting. Pepper seedlings are starting to form their first true leaves, and tomatoes are just starting to germinate. Fingers crossed things go well.
Please join us at Harvest Monday, hosted by Dave at Our Happy Acres.
10 comments:
Wow, that's some hardy kale. I've never heard of it coming back from the roots. But then, it doesn't get cold enough here to kill it. Your spinach looks great. My overwintered spinach never did size up and now it's bolting already.
What a wonderful harvest! Their pictures already tell how delicious and tender they are.
Beautiful greens! The corn salad really looks yummy. I haven't started any yet and I need to, it's so good for salads.
I want to try and get some spinach growing this year. We've only recently decided we like it"
Hi Michelle,
It's amazing that your peppers and tomato plants lived through the winter. I wished more of our greens had made it through. Harp spinach is actually meant to be winter planted and it did surprisingly well for us.
Hi Jade,
It's been great having something to harvest during the winter. The spinach and corn salad were definitely tender and hopefully they'll keep producing for awhile longer.
Hi Dave,
It's been an incredibly wet spring. I keep starting seeds and wondering when we'll be able to plant them in the garden. I forget how good corn salad is in a salad, I'm hoping they'll self-seed easily in the garden.
Hi Sue,
There's so many different varieties of spinach out there, and the modern hybrids are quite excellent. I've tried to overwinter spinach before and this is the first time they haven't been killed off.
I have just started an allotment in West Yorkshire, England. I have seedlings . . but the ground is going to take ages to warm up because we keep having snow. More forecast for tomorrow. It's very frustrating. In part I need to get used to later springs (having moved North from the south coast of England) but the whole country is getting off to a cold start this year - or, rather, not getting round to starting at all! Your spinach looks very enticing. I'll have to find out about corn salad.
Hi Lucy,
It sounds like you're having a cold winter. Snow in April is a terrible thing. I can't wait for spring to come and get planting underway.
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