Harvest Monday No. 1

Again this year I’ve planted wayyy too many vegetables, fruits, herbs, and other edibles in my wee garden.  Those who pop by for a visit get something to take away and many times it’s something they haven’t tried before.  What drives this lunacy? 
 

Biological curiosity? Yep.  

Culinary experimentation?  Check.  

And maybe a little bit of an addiction?    

Ahem, well, “Harvest Monday” seems to be a good time to begin cataloging the craziness so here we go with what I’m harvesting now in my urban yards, container gardens and community garden plots.  The links will lead to more information, whether it be a project I’ve been working on or the seeds that I used (almost always from West Coast Seeds): 

June-bearing strawberries 

Shiitake Mushrooms 

Rouge d’Hiver Lettuce 

 

Rouge d'Hiver Lettuce in Wine Barrel

 

Super Gourmet Salad Blend 

Cascadia snap peas 

Sugar Daddy snap peas 

Mammoth Melting Sugar snow peas 

Wild Arugula 

Wild Arugula or Rocket / Roquette

 

Green Onions 

Egyptian Walking Onions 

Rosemary, sage, thyme 

Italian Flat Leaf Parsley 

Hot N’ Spicy oregano 

Par-Cel (celery-flavoured parsley) 

Sweet basil  & Thai basil (from windowsill indoors) 

Celery (overwintered) 

Super Gourmet Lettuce in Wine Barrel

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Comments

  1. Laura says:

    Love! Love! love the lettuce barrel pot! Great colours & mix of greens. Visually stunning (not to mention tasty!)

    I get carried away too. I sense there will be more not less next year.

  2. Dan says:

    That’s quite a list!

  3. Stevie says:

    Thanks, Laura. Yeah, I was told I had to limit the plant list this year. whoops!

  4. Wow and you are harvesting all that already? I’m jealous!

  5. Stevie says:

    Melanie, don’t look at a blog from Cali then!

  6. Meredith says:

    Lettuce in a wine barrel is an inspired planting. That is just beautiful, Stevie. The last wine barrel I had rotted after our last heavy rains, sadly. I have the rings, but no more wood. :(

    I grew wild arugula this year, but it didn’t perform very well for me. Yours looks lovely and healthy!

  7. Stevie says:

    Hi Meredith – I’ve learned that they key to wild arugula is to plant it where it will grow and make sure it has room for deep roots. Each plant has a long tap root – unlike lettuce which has a shallow root system.

  8. Grace says:

    Yum. Is it a case of “the eyes are bigger than the stomach?” If so I’ve got it too, although my results aren’t nearly as beautiful as yours. I sooooo want some of that arugula!

  9. Lavenderbay says:

    Good for you, using a local seed provider. We’ve managed to order from Maritime and Quebec companies this year (though I’m still tempted to get a low-growing Serviceberry from Saskatchewan).

    I would want to order “Egyptian Walking Onions” on the product name alone! :D

  10. Jen says:

    One of the best things about blogging, is finding out someone in my vicinity blogs also. For so long there were very few BC bloggers, the numbers have increased lately, too cool!

    Nice to see your blog, and wow, have you ever got a lot of veggies. I tried to grow that gorgeous Rouge d’Hiver Lettuce in a window box last year, but it was never happy.

    Thanks for stopping by.

    Jen

  11. Oh my you have tons of harvest! I planted so many veggies myself, just waiting for them to grow. I planted way too many organic tomatoes, more than I should! When I planted from seeds 30 of them germinated, grew to around 4-5″ but I let them die, new to tomatoes. I only saved about 6 tomato varieties that I can plant and have about 14 plants now (plant backups in case some don’t make it in raised beds due to unexpected frosts). I should’ve gave the tomatoes away but I recently moved here, don’t really know anyone in the mountains.

    Cramming in more veggies and flowers in my little garden, not sure what drives me but I love playing in the dirt! My husband asked “What do you do in the garden all day long…Pull things out and plant them back?” He makes me laugh! :)

  12. Linda says:

    Stevie: I am very envious of your abundant harvest. Isn’t it wonderful to have produce to give away? The Rouge d’Hiver lettuce looks too good to eat or give away!

  13. rebecca says:

    oh cool shiitake and love the barrel

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