I guess time really does fly when you are having fun. :-) This weeks harvests are strange for me. I'm still unsure of exactly what type of greens I had planted, but I did harvest them this week. 7 pounds of greens, just shy of 2 pounds of tomatoes a zucchini and 2 pounds of sweet potatoes.
Ah, the greens wilted a bit from the heat. I can't believe how warm it got on Sunday.
I only harvested the sweet potatoes because I was moving the location of the patch. This is what has grown from the slips since my Fall harvest. Half of the new planter box will be sweet 'taters. I think they got too much water in the box against the fence and while I don't mind where they were at, it will be easier to control their willy nilly growth this way. Besides it will be pretty to have the vines hanging over the sides. :-D We vegetable gardeners don't always have the advantage of appearances first.
The girls enjoyed helping out with the harvesting and took advantage of my being preoccupied. The greens were a little more roughed up by the time they were done. LOL. They didn't do much but peck at them, but it was still funny to tell the kids they were eating greens that had been henpecked. *snort* They are back to laying very well again. I can't help but to think of it as a kind of reward for them. They also got to pick through the compost that went into the new planter.
Linking into Daphne's Dandelions for Harvest Monday. Thanks Daphne! You're a doll for always hosting~
See you soon!
Barbie~
Those chickens are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteTomatoes, already? How lucky. Mine are under the grow lights.
ReplyDeleteCristy- Don't let those tomatoes fool you, they are from my fall tomato plants! They just kept going. :-D Love the weather in the winter here, hate the bugs in the summer!
DeleteThanks Amber. They are such good girls - and what personalities!
ReplyDeleteHard to identify your greens from the photo, they do look like some kind of Aisan greens. How did you prepare them? What did they taste like?
ReplyDeleteNice that you are still harvesting tomatoes and your sweet potatoes are still growing. My grounds are snow covered and solidly frozen
Very mild. I think I ended up figuring out that most of it was perpetual spinach. A type of chard. :-) A little bit of a very mild mustard mixed in with one lettuce that was a throw back from last season.
DeleteSmart girl not pushing too hard to get your own way. It's hard to know exactly what you want but have someone else doing the work - and rightfully then wanting to have some say in it. ;)
ReplyDeleteThe hens look lovely and healthy and are just like mine... always stealing a little taste of whatever I have recently been harvesting.
It's hard to get mad at them when they give us so much, isn't it? Besides they are cute when they aren't digging up freshly sown seeds. LOL.
DeleteSo envious. Tomatoes in January!
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