Gardening – Make It Sow…Again
It is well over the midway point of the gardening season in North America.
Some crops are being harvested. The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I, for example, harvested the broad/fava beans this week. That bit of the garden is now open for another planting.
And we DO have time for another planting.
We can’t overwinter crops like kale and other cold hardy vegetables, which would be ideal for the second planting. We receive too much snow for that awesome strategy.
But we can sow seeds for fast growing vegetables like lettuce or pak/bok choi or chinese/napa cabbage.
And that is exactly what we’re doing. We’re flipping the bed and hope to get one more harvest.
(smiles)
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Gardening – Plan For A First Quick Harvest
When I’m crafting my garden plans, I always include radishes as part of the first/Spring plan.
Radish is one of the easiest, quickest, cold-friendly vegetables to grow. Both the root and the leaves can be eaten.
Eating from the garden early and sharing that bounty is a huge reward. It keeps me excited and motivated.
And it keeps everyone around me on board with the gardening. They (and I!) see results right away. They benefit from these results.
And it’s fun to pull up radishes, uncovering how big (or small – remember the leaves are edible so small is okay too) they are!
Other fast growing crops are leafy greens like spinach and lettuce, snow peas (all of the snow pea plant is edible also – the greens are delicious), and bok choy.
Consider planting a fast-to-harvest, cool-temperature-tolerant crop first.
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Fast To Harvest
(This is a stock photo. Our radishes don’t look this pretty. But they taste delicious!)
The quickest harvest we have in the Sax household is always the radish. The type we grow doesn’t care about the cold. (grins) As long as the soil is semi-thawed, they are good to go.
And we allow some to self-seed, which means they are usually the first vegetable plants to emerge. They even beat the dandelions!
So the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I are munching on radishes now.
(smiles)
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