Greens, Greens and More Greens

Greens, Greens and More Greens

The greens, both salad and cooking are the stars of the garden right now. There are turnips, mustard, kale and Swiss chard. All are growing faster than we can eat them. We are giving away a “mess” a day and eating them every night. These are great sources of Vitamin C, and A and folic acid. The flavor is great with a little Texas Pete. I even ate some leftovers with my eggs Sunday morning.

Spinach of course can go both ways. We are cooking the spinach from the fall garden and using the spinach from the spring garden for salads. The other part of the salad greens is mesclun mix. I don’t remember what the show was; but there was a lady on TV harvesting mesclun with scissors. It is so easy. Just grab the top of the plant and give it a “haircut”. Picking really goes fast and the mesclun grow back faster too.

Probably the possibility of a complete salad from the garden is impossible here. By the time tomatoes and cucumbers are coming in, the spinach, lettuce and mesclun will have bolted. There are, at least, radishes and spring onions. Radishes, carrots and beets were planted together. As the radishes are harvested more room is available and the soil is loosened for the slower growing carrots and beets.


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