Goji and overwintered baby beets.
Final harvest of overwintered greens -- Swiss Chard.
This
is the last harvest of overwintered vegetables in the garden, I pulled
all of them to make room for spring planting. The weather is quite
unstable in our neck of the woods at spring time, I am holding off
transplanting warm weather crops for another two weeks, and I'm just
beginning to start basil and cucumber seeds. What are you growing this
year, have you started your spring transplants?
Go visit Daphne's Dandelions host of Harvest Monday to see more garden harvest from around the globe.
Go visit Daphne's Dandelions host of Harvest Monday to see more garden harvest from around the globe.
15 comments:
Our over wintered greens will stay in for a few more weeks. We have planted a lot of spring lettuces, beets, radish, turnips, peas and all the Cole crops go in today or tomorrow!! We still have 4-6 more weeks before we can plant our warm season veggies.
I have my overwintered greens in the areas that will get the summer crops. So I don't need the space yet.
What is Goji? I've heard of goji berries, but they are in the solanum family and I'm guessing you don't eat the leaves.
Stony,
Sound like you have a lot going already, cole crops don't do well for me in spring planting, I have better luck growing them in the fall.
Daphne,
The entire plant of goji is edible, most people know about the berries, the root is used for medicinal purposes, the stem for making soup, leaves can be stir fry and use as spinach, we like goji leaves in eggdrop soup, it has tons of iron plus other nutrients, the soup turns dark color with the leaves. Goji tips and leaves are most tender and delicious in spring.
Goji sounds wonderful. I wonder if it would do well in Dallas. Your greens are just gorgeous. They make me so hungry! Hopefully next year I'll have some to overwinter, since we just started our garden in March!
pooks,
Goji will grow in Dallas if it's protect from hot afternoon sun in summer, a semi shady corner will be good for it.
Did you grow your goji from seeds or cutting? I have been wanting to grow some.
Wow didn't realize you could eat the whole goji plant. It is on my list of things I want to try in the future. Lovely beets and greens! Some of my brassicas are hanging in there and I've just planted tomatoes & corn!
Norma,
I grow the goji from cuttings, the seeds starts easily and you can get a small harvest the following year, it gets better after the roots are established.
Mary,
Wow you have tomatoes and corn planted already? My brassicas don't do well in spring, but I keep planting they anyways.
What a yummy harvest!!!
Good harvest this week and I always learn something new here - this time about the Goji plant leaves being edible.
I have some overwintered items still growing, lots of early spring crops that are just starting to produce, and lots of summer items started that are either in the house under lights or in the greenhouse hardening off.
Visiting your blog is getting expensive - my daughter loves goji berries and I would love to grow them, especially if all the parts are edible. Hopefully it is available in Australia.
We have quite mild winters(7-19C) but we do have heavy frosts, I am still able to grow a lot of greens over winter including lettuce,spinach, chard,spring onions, parsley,leeks and cabbages.I haven't tried goji berries what do they taste like?
kitsap,
I learn new things from your blog as well, you're so organized and efficient, if I can manage 10% of you do I'll be in great shape.
Liz,
It's all homegrown and homemade stuffs, I try to grow what we couldn't buy locally. Hopefully you can find fresh goji stems to root, otherwise soften the dried goji berries in warm water, break open the pod and plant the seeds. I've done it before and it worked.
Andrea,
Sound like you still have a lot going in your garden, it's nice to be able to garden year round.
The tiny goji berry is sweet, it's usually sold dried, we have to grow our own to enjoy the fresh tasting berries. In our garden the birds get first pick, we get the leftovers if lucky, that's why I go for the leaves instead.
I never heard of goji. Wonder what it taste like. Nice over-wintered greens you have there.
P.S> I tried growing kangkong in partial shade. Did not grow much. I reckon this plants really like heat and plenty of moisture. During summer our kangkong plants growth are usually arrested because we have really dry summer here. It picks up again in autumn. If you have a pond, in summer you can try growing them there. Kangkong really like warm waters to grow.
MK girl,
Goji is sweet, Asians use it for soup, dessert, tea, all kinds of cooking and medicinal purposes.
Thanks for the tip for growing kangkong, I grew it in full sun, it didn't like it, we have hot dry summer also.
Hum.....maybe I'll try to grow it in semi shade this year.
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