It’s time for Harvest Monday, where gardeners from all over celebrate all things harvest related. The weather here has been cool but mostly dry this past week, which has made for pleasant working in the garden. I have been busy getting the beds ready for planting, and last week I got most of the tomatoes planted. Next up will be peppers and eggplant, followed by the pole beans, winter squashes and then sweet potatoes. Rain is forecast for here later today and for tomorrow, so I might get a rest day whether I want it or not. Meanwhile, it is still asparagus season and we have harvested 14 pounds of it so far. On Saturday we made Asparagus Mimosa for what will probably be the last time this year since we will stop cutting it soon.
daily asparagus harvest
Asparagus Mimosa
And it is still salad season here as well. We are enjoying the lettuce on salads, wraps and in salads. We make a meal from some salads, while others are side dishes.
lettuce from the greenhouse
salad for lunch
We used some of the Grazion leaf lettuce for my wife’s wilted lettuce salad, which is always a treat. It served as a side dish for a meal last week.
wilted lettuce salad
I pulled some scallions I had growing from sets in the greenhouse to make room for other things. They were all sizes, which is not a bad thing since all will be useful in the kitchen. I don’t generally grow these into full-sized onions anyway, usually harvesting on an as-needed basis at whatever size they happen to be.
scallions from sets
In non-harvest news, the giant Pileated Woodpeckers are daily visitors to our suet feeders. I often hear them before I see them, and a friend calls them ‘monkey birds’ because their loud chattering does sort of sound like monkeys.
Pileated Woodpecker
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!
Still harvesting asparagus
The salads look wonderful, and I’m proud of your stamina in eating all that asparagus! I sometimes get a Pileated woodpecker on my suet feeders, and it’s always amusing.
Thanks Will. We have given a couple of pounds of the asparagus to friends, but we have eaten the rest ourselves. I will confess I have just about had my fill of it though!
I have been harvesting green peas, snow peas and sugar peas to freeze for later use. Unfortunately with all the moisture we have been receiving the aphids are invading the green peas so I will let them dry up.
I use onion sets too for ease and don’t expect them to progress to bulbs though sometimes they do. I just harvested the rest of mine today. Over the season it’s nice to have the varied sizes. Enjoy all your salads!
I’ve been harvesting lots of lettuce, a few radishes, strawberries, and snap peas but basically am just getting everything else planted. I sure love seeing your salads! They are pretty much the reason I planted so much lettuce this spring. I shared a link below which is my 2025 spring garden update. I’m super excited to see this season get growing! Happy Gardening!