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):
Rouge d'Hiver Lettuce in Wine Barrel
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
Hot N’ Spicy oregano
Par-Cel (celery-flavoured parsley)
Sweet basil & Thai basil (from windowsill indoors)
Celery (overwintered)
Super Gourmet Lettuce in Wine Barrel
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.
That’s quite a list!
Thanks, Laura. Yeah, I was told I had to limit the plant list this year. whoops!
Wow and you are harvesting all that already? I’m jealous!
Melanie, don’t look at a blog from Cali then!
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!
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.
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!
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
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
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! :)
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!
oh cool shiitake and love the barrel