Some of these radishes were harvested this week, and some the week before. This represents a little less than half of my entire radish harvest. I grew three varieties - I think I'm only going to bother with one next year - hopefully one that sizes up better than my Easter Egg and French Breakfast radishes did. Many of them failed to form a suitable root at all.
All of this lettuce was harvested on Wednesday. It's a mix from Pine Tree, as well as a lot of yellow oak leaf lettuce I had left over from last year.
This is the second harvest of scapes; the first harvest was about the same amount. I have a total of 10 heads of hard neck garlic planted, and about half of them have scapes left (some more in the shade are still forming) - I'm waiting for them to make "the curl" before I cut them.
If you pretend that I have another picture of lettuce and scapes exactly like the ones above, that's what I harvested on Sunday night.
Although it's not from my garden, we picked 38 pounds of strawberries from a local fruit farm on Sunday morning. We have about 6 gallons of frozen berries, 13 jars of jam, and a few quarts for fresh eating this week.
Lovely lettuce and scapes and those u-pick strawberries are gorgeous. I never seem to have an easy time of growing radishes. Everyone thinks they are such an "easy" item to grow but the truth is they are prone to many pests and like to bolt. All of my first planting of Dragon radishes bolted. I am waiting to see what I get from my second planting of a different variety.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I'll still try planting them because it's nice to see something coming up in the garden early....but they definitely weren't as easy and sure-thing as I was told they would be.
DeleteWe're very much looking forward to strawberry season, thank for the reminder! Once I learned how to cook the radish greens, I wasn't so disappointed when some of them failed to thrive. We're in the same zone as you, and they can be inconsistent -- I suspect it's because they're germination period is so short, they're very much affected by what the weather's doing. It may be worth trying another planting of all varieties to see if you can get a better harvest...
ReplyDeleteDo you plant a fall crop as well? I might try them again in September to see what I get. My mom loves them, so I like to grow them so I can give them to her.
DeleteI put some of them in really early this year - in March when we had the crazy warm-up. Then another group went in at the normal time in April. My radishes almost all pushed themselves out of the soil - is that abnormal?
Now that is a LOT of strawberry picking. Good for you!
ReplyDeleteMost of my EE radishes did well, with just an occasional dud. I'll plant them again in the fall where ever I"m planting lettuce, I usually put in some radishes for my salads. I also want to try the storage radishes, for cooking; daikon and black spanish.
ReplyDeleteSo envious of those berries; I'm not in an agricultural area and there aren't any kind of farms within 70 miles of me ;-(
Try German Giant radishes. They are a little pricey but I get a nice size radish that doesn't get 'hot' quite as soon as some varieties.
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