This morning I harvested lettuce (salad bowl, oak leaf, romaine), chard, kale, arugula, and spinach. The spinach and one of the chard plants were headed to seed as a result of the warm temperatures we experienced last week. This harvest filled two 18 quart containers and will give us plenty for fresh eating and making pesto and kale chips over the next week. A conservative estimate at this point would be that we are saving $15-$20 per week by growing our own fresh greens and preserving some in the form of pesto.
This was the first weekend that I did not do anything significant related to the garden, though if I had more time I would have built another garden frame and planted it with beets, carrots and greens. My plan is to start a new garden frame mid-June, end-of-June and mid-July. My experience has been that after that point the shortening days and lower temperatures of Autumn do not give the plants much opportunity to mature.
Youngest daughter reported "very, very baby" tomatoes appearing in the container gardens. We have been enjoying fresh picked basil from that location as well.
The irises have just finished flowering and the peonies will not be far behind. Dames rocket is mostly finished flowering. The morning glories are just beginning to lift their leaves above the undergrowth and reach for the trellis. Soon the pretty white flowers of the snakeroot will begin to appear. The apples are almost the size of golf balls. Strawberries are beginning to ripen.
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