We usually steam it and eat it with a bit of oil or butter and basalmic vinegar, or bake it with olive oil and garlic, or add it to soups, or in veggie egg scrambles, or stir fries, or…we live kale. It started out slow this spring and then didn’t grow much throughout the summer, then suddenly took off and now we have a forest. We were thinking of dehydrating. And making more kale chips
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My seed order has arrived! Butternut squash, rhubarb and zucchini for next year. Chervil that I’m going to try to grow right now, if that doesn’t work it’s for next spring too. I got a spearmint freebie with my order. And the best part…100 crocus bulbs and a peony root!
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Here is a lot of what we dehydrated, from left to right:
Tomatoes and tomato skin powder, carrots, beets, corn, apples, potatoes, butternut squash, sweet potatoes, celery and greens powders.
Apples in various sizes for granola, oat meal and baking, and snacking.
The celery powder is layers of stalk and greens, ours and some that came in a CSA share. It is fantastically flavourful!
We are taking apart all of the raised beds and giving away the soil and boards, this is 5 of 8 we’ve had the past few years. I’ll still plant a few large pots of this and that but I would like to focus on the preserving, rather than the growing.
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Our dinner tonight! Endive. I’m also still growing spinach, beetroot, chard and purslane. So far it’s a very warm autumn.
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Lovely! I harvested beets and jalapeños this morning at our house.
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I want to grow peppers next year! I’m not a huge fan of spicy food but Mr Imma loves it.
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We are expecting storm Darcy later today so I decided to harvest everything still left in the garden. So far it hasn’t been very cold at all, so I still have spinach, endive, purslane and beet greens:
I spent some time covering up the strawberries and the garlic, I hope they will survive the cold.
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How lovely! We have kohlrabi, beets, cilantro and dill in our greenhouse right now. Gotta love winter harvests!
How nice to still have fresh things! It’s freezing & snowy here now, even decorative cabbage is finished. We have been sprouting & will set up a grow shelf for baby greens when the back porch is finished drywalling.
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I need to start some sprouts! have already planted pepper seeds for this summer’s garden.
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Well, we are eating the sprouts, lol. Bit soon to start anything here. I think the earliest we possibly could is end of March.
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So far we’ve only had mild frost a few days (not lower than -5 C) and a tiny bit of snow. The spinach (Viking) and endive (Breedblad Volhart Winter) are cold weather varieties but I don’t expect them to survive very cold weather. Winter purslane is supposed to be able to survive even the coldest weather but this is the first year I’m growing it so I haven’t tested that yet.
I had to look up winter purslane, here purslane is a weed that grows in sidewalk cracks, lol. It’s a highly nutritious & quite tasty wild edible green so I do harvest it from clean spaces (not the sidewalk!). Your winter purslane is known here as miner’s lettuce, another nutritious & delicious wild green! I did not know it was cultivated elsewhere, how interesting!
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In my corner of Europe (southern Netherlands / Belgium) it was traditionally eaten quite a lot, but it’s not really as popular as it used to be. The soil is quite poor here and this is one of the few fresh greens available in the cold season. Back in the days it was usually stewed or boiled but I prefer to eat it raw mixed through mashed potatoes or I use it in soups. It’s indeed very healthy and it definitely grows like a weed!
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This is the dinner I made from it today:
Mashed potatoes with purslane and tomatoes mixed through it (and a veggie burger).
Mashed potatoes with raw leafy greens is a very Dutch thing to eat.
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That looks soooo good! Oh, I’m hungry for greens now.
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That looks so good!
I just picked up three different kinds of garlic (elephant, artichoke, and California), and some pineberries (a white strawberry with red seeds) today. My husband is also helping to build a better fence around my garden because my dog likes to tear through it. lol I am looking forward to a bigger and better season.
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I just ordered a grow light so I can start some seeds (when it’s time). I wanted a grow light system, but I have a small metal rack with 2 shelves that I brought into school (I wasn’t using it at home) that should hold my 1 seed starting tray perfectly. So, this week, I’ll bring it home and set it up!
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Greens, yum.
We received our seed order just in time for snow, and then more snow, with snow in the forcast.
Spring for me means planting peas as early as I can.
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Mostly for eating the green stalks…