Monday, June 18, 2012

Harvest Monday, June 18, 2012

Yippee! Here's my first real harvest from the new garden beds. A small handful of Rolande filet beans and a couple handsful of Oregon Sugarpod II snow peas.


And Yesterday the garden yielded a larger handful of beans and more snow peas.


And a very small handful of Lark's Tongue kale.


I've also been harvesting small amounts of capers once or twice a week since early May.

It's been three months since my last harvest post, it sure is nice to have something to show off again!

Here's the latest harvest totals:

Rolande filet beans - 8.5 oz.
Lark's Tongue kale - 2 oz.
Oregon Sugar Pod II snow peas - 13.7 oz.
Capers - 16.7 oz

All of that pushes my total harvests for the year up to 36 pounds.

Harvest Monday is hosted by Daphne on her blog Daphne's Dandelions, head on over there to see what other garden bloggers have been harvesting lately.

15 comments:

  1. Looks like the makings of a nice dinner of fresh veggies!

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  2. Their listed on my diet program actually. My favorite part of my list is greens.

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  3. Oh, it looks lovely! The kale is truly inspirational. I must start some soon for the fall.

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  4. Very nice harvest. It's always good when the summer crops start coming on! I'm excited for the tomatoes that I see getting ready to harvest in the next few weeks!!

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  5. Hurrah for the new beds and for your triumphant return to the Harvest Monday posts! Fresh green beans and the first sugar snap peas are going to be a while yet for us - so I am envious of both of those items.

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  6. Leaf miners got to my peas, I didn't have a good harvest of it. My 2nd sowing of Rolande is finally showing some sign of sprouting, there was only 10% sprouted from the first time, it has never happened before, weird.

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  7. Those beans are lovely. I can't wait for my beans to start really growing. It has just been too cold.

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  8. Oh yay for the new beds (and indeed all your hard work). Nice looking peas too - if only I could get my plants to grow bigger than about 2 cm.

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  9. Lark's tongue kale is new to me. I have recently fallen in love with kale so I may have to try this. How does it stand up to the heat. I tried lacinato this year and found it bolted much earlier than my red Siberian kale.

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    1. Coral, Lark's Tongue kale is new to me also, but it is supposed to be very resistant to bolting in mild climates. I've found the Lacinato kale to be prone to bolting also. You can find seeds for the Lark's Tongue kale through the Seed Savers Exchange annual yearbook (for members) or from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.

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  10. I'll have to check out that kind of kale; it looks really pretty. Very nice harvest; I don't think I've ever had peas and green beans at the same time tho!

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  11. Lovely peas and beans harvest, my peas are finally coming in but the beans are not doing anything, hopefully the hot weather starting tomorrow will wake them up and get them moving.

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  12. New beds are the best! Congrats on your peas and beans! Our peas didn't do incredibly well this year and I'm still waiting on some beans to pop :-/ Enjoy your wonderful harvest!

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  13. I saw this blog post about capers the other day and thought of you:
    http://www.divinacucina-blog.com/2012/06/keeping-kitchen-capers.html
    Have you ever seen anyone using the leaves like this?

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    1. Thanks so much, this is fascinating. I had heard about preserved caper leaves before but never saw how to make them. I'm going to have to do some experimenting!

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