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Monday, December 12, 2011

Harvest Monday............12/12/2011

This past week I have been getting some small harvests from the cold frames and a little from the spinach bed too.

A nice bowl of lettuce and finally some spinach!

The fattest carrot I have ever grown! One of four that survived the late planting.

Pak Choi

There are three varieties of Asian Veggies growing in the cold frames. The Tatsoi & Baby Choi are doing well with the exception of some nibbling from bugs. But, the Pak Choi pictured here is bolting. I guess there has been too much fluctuation in temperature with all the unseasonably warm weather and now cold weather.

Total weighed harvest - 1 lb.

Carrot - 4 oz.
Lettuce & Spinach - 4 oz.
Pak Choi - 8 oz.

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23 comments:

  1. Very nice. Any harvest in winter is a good harvest! The carrot looks great!

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  2. Nice winter harvest. I miss fresh lettuce and spinach. It may be time to start some under lights. That is a chunky carrot. I bet it tasted nice and sweet. Both my spring and fall plantings of pak choi bolted. I hope to try again next spring.

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  3. Bet that carrot was crisp and sweet. Lovely Asian greens I am jealous.

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  4. Your harvest is beautiful! I just love the colors of the lettuces. I can almost hear the *crunch* of that carrot! I'm leaving mine in the ground and just pulling what I need.

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  5. Hurrah for spinach! I know you don't always have the best success with spinach - but it looks like you have broken that trend because those look like nice leaves from the spinach patch. The other greens and lettuces look great too. I have minimal lettuces at the moment because slugs mowed down my fall patch before it ever got much growth. I have one small patch that I am nursing along and a bunch of young plants growing in the greenhouse where it is protected. Eventually those youngsters will provide me with more abundant harvests but for now I am using spinach and mache alot for winter salads.

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  6. Too bad about the bolting pak choi. Sometimes it just has a mind of its own! I do have carrot envy. I'm headed to the store shortly to buy some, since my fall planting hasn't done squat.

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  7. what a wonderful harvest this week. With the pak choi perhaps some succession plantings will help? planting fewer seeds every so often? Mine aren't quite big enough to pick yet

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  8. Your carrot looks sassy! The apple jam sounds delicious, too.

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  9. That carrot looks very nice, and I'm sure it was good, too. No coldframe gardening for me this year - nobody here to eat any greens......

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  10. Love crispy sweet carrot, the greens look good, every bit counts when picking is lean.

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  11. Becky, I agree! Any fresh harvest in the winter is great and one less item that has to be used from storage!

    Rachel, My spring Pak Choi bolted also. This is the first year that I have had that happen. The Baby Choi & Tatsoi is doing great! So we should have plenty of Asian Greens!

    Norma, We love our Asian greens and have many sown in the cold frames.

    Lynda, How about that fat carrot! It was definitely a porker. I wonder if the other three are that big.

    Laura, I think that spinach patch will give us a great harvest come spring. I think the throw the seeds in disgust and then forget about it approach, is the only way I can grow spinach!

    Dave, Only 4 carrots survived the late planting! I'll be buying some shortly too!

    Mary, I do have some smaller plants and other Asian greens in the cold frames. I probably should start some more shortly for an early spring harvest.

    Barbie, That's my porker carrot!!!

    Hey Jeff, I think that you better start eating some greens! You're going to need to be healthy for all those fishing trips that you have planned!

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  12. Mac, We sure do appreciate the small harvests when the picking is lean!

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  13. what a lovely december harvest. I wonder if cold frames would work up here...hmmmm..lol

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  14. Thanks Mrs.P! Yes, you would definitely get some use out of cold frames in your area!

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  15. Isn't it amazing that there has been such fluctuations in our weather of late. Lovely vegetables from your garden.

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  16. I love the spinach. Is it in a cold frame? Someday we'll figure out how to grow it successfully.

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  17. Oh goodness, that carrot is fat! lol!! Your harvest looks wonderful.

    Lynn

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  18. Those greens look so good, mine are still to small to pick :)

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  19. Hi Karen, We have definitely been having some strange fall weather. I'm glad that the temperatures are becoming more seasonable. I have so many bugs in the cold frames that need some good cold weather!

    Jody, No the spinach is not in the cold frames. I have an awful time growing spinach too. I think that this planting will give us a good early spring harvest!!

    Hi Lynn, That carrot was so so fat!

    Erin, I had to harvest some more of the Pak Choi last night. It was wonderful in our stir fry for dinner!

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  20. I've been meaning to ask you how your cold frames veggies are doing. I don't have a winter garden this year so I'll have to experience it vicariously through yours!

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  21. Thomas, The cold frames are doing well with the exception of the hungry bugs!

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  22. That's pretty cool that you still have veggies growing:) I imagine that fatter carrot tasting sweeter. Next month, I'm starting a project with our students here in Tucson....gardening! We get to play around with some cool season veggies here and there is excitement:)

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  23. Chris, I keep veggies growing all winter. Hopefully your gardening project will get you addicted to growing your own veggies like the rest of us are! How exciting!

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