It’s time for Harvest Monday, where gardeners from all over celebrate all things harvest related. I’m continuing to feel a bit better day by day as I recover from my recent surgery. I’ve done a bit of light work in the greenhouse, and my wife continues to help with watering and other chores. I harvested a big head of lettuce last week to use in our salads. And I cut more mixed greens (baby kale, mizuna and pac choi) to go along with the lettuce.
Starfighter lettuce
salad greens
salad with mixed greens
I also cut a mix of Winterbor and Starbor kale from the greenhouse planting, which is starting to bolt to flower now. Both these kales and the baby leaf varieties have done quite well in the winter greenhouse and kept us supplied.
curly kale
And the collards have done well too. They are also bolting to flower, and I got a good sized cutting of leaves from them last week. This is a mix of varieties, mostly leftover plants from my fall planting in the vegetable garden.
collard greens
I love the sturdy greens in soup, and much of the kale wound up in a pot of Ribollita soup I cooked up last week. We got two meals out of this batch, and the leftovers were even more tasty. I served the soup over some of my toasted sourdough bread, which soaks up the broth.
Ribollita Soup
And in non-harvest news, mama bluebird has five eggs in our PVC nest box. We should have babies in a couple of weeks, and both male and female have been visiting our birds feeders on a regular basis.
bluebird eggs
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!
Oh those bluebird eggs! So pretty
I look forward to seeing the baby birds. The salad and soup look tasty.
Picked 10lb of asparagus so Blanching some to put in the freezer. Love the bluebird eggs.
That is a big haul of asparagus! Ours is not coming up just yet.