Harvest Monday - June 1st

Tomato plants are in as are peppers.  Cucumber is sprouting.  Snow peas are flowering. Garlic is producing scapes. Blueberries filling out.  Lettuce finishing up. Bok choy all picked.

Here are a few shots.  I haven't always remembered to take the photos.

Bok choy getting rinsed.  I have several bags in the refrigerator.

Bok choy marinating in lime juice and garlic for grilling.  That was so so.  I think if I do it again I'll try a different seasoning. 

Garlic scapes on top of spinach harvest.  I used the scapes to make Daphne's garlic scape dressing.

A basketful of assorted lettuces.

What's in your garden basket?

Daphne's Dandelions hosts Harvest Monday

What to Do With Bok Choy?

I planted way too much bok choy this year.  I started some inside and sowed seeds in the garden too.  What was I thinking?  I use bok choy in stir fry with chicken, pork or beef and that's the extent of my repertoire for bok choy.

Any recipe suggestions?  I know I can pick some and keep in my refrigerator for a week or more but I may have to just give it away or compost the rest.  It will bolt soon.

Spinach is doing really well as are my lettuces.

Here's one head of bok choy harvested last week.

Here's another harvested Sunday evening.

Green leaves chopped to add to stir fry at the end stage.

Chicken marinating.

Stems of bok choy in the wok.

It was a delicious meal.  But what else can I use it for?

See other harvests at Daphne's Dandelions.

Harvest Monday & What The Vegetable Garden Looks Like

Stop over with Daphne to see what other gardeners are harvesting.

I've been getting some lovely salad greens all last week and on Mother's Day Sarah used some of the tatsoi in a oriental soup.

Love these scissors from Pampered Chef for cutting up lettuce.

Use these snips on herbs - 4 blades cut them fine.

Greens in salad spinner - also a handy kitchen gadget.

Sunday's harvest.

Here's the vegetable garden this morning.  Last week I finished putting down the plastic mulch.

My spinach is the biggest I have had in a long time.  It's Regiment Spinach.

This bed has tatsoi, two kinds of lettuce and two kinds of bok choy.

These lettuces I grew inside and transplanted so much larger than seeded.

Garlic doing well, though bed needs weeding.

Another bed with garlic and varieties of lettuce.

So far the voles have not found this second sowing of snow peas.  Bok choy there too.  I will pick some of them tonight along with spinach for beef sukiyaki.

2014 First Harvest

Just picked - baby bok choy and chives.

These will go into an Oriental soup tonight!

It won't be long before I'm picking lettuce, too.

Harvest Monday

Gardening for Granny!