It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. Lettuce is the only winter green I am harvesting right now, and it will be limited until I can replant for a spring crop. I sowed more seed last week, which means it will be March before any of that will be ready to eat. I have some more planted in the greenhouse beds that is sizing up, but not quite large enough yet for cutting.
Salanova Green Butter lettuce
We have plenty of food stashed away in the freezer though, and with the cold weather still hanging on it has gone into many soups lately. Greens and beans are a classic combo, and my sourdough bread is good for croutons or by the slice.
Ribollita soup
Speaking of bread, I baked a batch of Ligurian Focaccia bread last week, using an Italian type ’00’ pizza flour. The bread was light and got a great rise in the oven, but I’m not sure it was an improvement over the last batch I made with King Arthur all-purpose flour. More testing (and tasting) will be necessary in the near future!
Ligurian Focaccia bread
inside of focaccia bread
I have been doing more woodworking, including a joint effort with my wife. She has some fabric leftover from a sun printing project (using asparagus leaves), and it works well with the intarsia turtle I made. I’m working on a wooden frame for the art now, and it should look good hanging on the wall with our other art.
intarsia turtle
Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to share, add your name and blog link to Mr Linky below. And please check out what everyone is harvesting!
We have plenty in the freezer too which is just as well as the plot we only have parsnips and leeks in the plot
How long will it be before you are back in abundance Sue?
I like that turtle artwork! Interesting to use asparagus leaves to create a ?shadow or sunbleach effect from the fabric underneath – is that how it was done? I’ve just posted about my October 2023 harvests in February!
Lynda, Dave’s wife here. With sunprinting you paint the fabric, and then add masks. I used asparagus ferns. Then you put it out in the sun. The heat pulls the paint from behind the masks (in this case the ferns) resulting in the original white fabric in the form of the ferns or whatever masks you choose. Then I stitched them to bring them out. I have lots of tutorials on my blog if you’re interested.
I was going to answer your question but Lynda did a much better job than I could have!
That looks like a fun art project, though I admit I had to look up what “intarsia” is. That’s a perfect head of lettuce.
Yes a perfect head of lettuce. Sometimes, I have a hard time cutting such perfection. I’ll need to do that this week. Your breads are always so lovely and must be delicious.
When did you sow that lettuce Dave, to have it looking so nice now. I hardly have any growth at this time of year and that looks perfect, I’m still mostly eating plants that grew last year : All the best – Steve
I sowed that seed back in October Steve. And it made most of the growth before the short days of December and January.
It’s done well, leaf quality looks good