The first little sprouts of kale peeped out of the ground yesterday (2/23). These were the Siberian kale. The Russian red kale is still doing well, but it lacks the body and the flavor of the Siberian. When this crop disappears there will be no more of that stuff in my garden.
The compost is working well. The bin is full again even after using a little this weekend. It is time to move more of it to the tarp. There is enough there to fill another raised bed, if I can scrounge some lumber. Our class in the master gardener program on Monday was on compost. I like my method better. It yields better compost faster.
Yesterday’s trip to Renfrow’s to get carrot, beet and radish seeds also netted a compost thermometer. The soil temperature in the 1st 3 beds in the garden (a-1 through a-3) is 50 and 52 degrees. Today the compost will be tested. It got turned yesterday so the reading would probably have been meaningless. The carrots, beets and radish seeds were mixed together and inter-planted in row A-2 with onions, cabbage, broccoli and kale.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
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.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
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