The garden is starting to produce, and I can’t be more excited. I love getting my basket and wandering the yard picking a bit of this and that to make into a meal.
Saturday after a long day of planting some early veggies I decided it was time to start picking. The carrots and kale are leftovers from last year.
(can anyone tell me what this is?)
The Kale is nice and sweet, when the temperatures are warm it turns bitter, but will become sweet again when fall weather turns cold. In the summer I use the Kale to feed my chickens and rabbits.
looks kid of like dandelion leaves to me.
I am so impressed. We've already finished off our "leftover" carrots and I can't wait for all the fresh veggies we have planned this year to start producing.
If you have any yummy recipes that you use your veggies in, please share them on your blog. Especially the kale. I'd love to use it more in my cooking because it is so healthy, but I've only found a couple of recipes that my family will eat it in.
Yes Dandelion Leaves, VERY nutritious!
One of these years I am going to try carrots I haven't had much success with roots!
Dandelions! I'd know them anywhere as I washed a bunch of leaves on Saturday and cooked them up with bacon. They were GROSS! If you know how to make them palatable, please share.
I'm going to say delicious, peppery, arugula.
Wild lettuce. We have it here and you can eat it mixed in with your salad greens. It is mistaken for dandelion, I actually thought it was till last summer when I went on an herb walk. The roots dryed make an excellent herbal tea. We had it with a salad last summer when we ate a wild foods lunch it is bitter but mixed in with other salad fixins it isn't so bad.
Dandalion I make alot of tea with and love it.
Erika
Wow, a quarter acre? I assumed you had much more than that! Mrs. Mordecai, I've read you have to get the leaves before they grow flowers.
I say dandelions. Very nutritious I've heard.
The carrots look so good! You are doing great with your garden this early! Imagine what all you will harvest this summer! Fresh veggies galore.