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4 Squares Planted + Big Greens Harvest…

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I did a bit of gardening today, since the weather’s finally cleared up. It’s been raining for the past few days and parts of the garden are slightly flooded, but most of the garden got a good dose of water, which is good. I placed out a bunch of empty buckets and plastic storage boxes and collected as much water as I can get. Our rain barrel was filled to capacity and my Mom placed an empty trash can under the rain spout in back for the garage, but we found out today that it had a hole at the bottom. :(

Our Red Giant Mustard are still growing, but they probably just have about 2 more harvests left before bolting… so I want to keep the Mustard as well as some Kale and Mizuna coming. I planted 4 squares (4 plants each) in the Square Foot Garden today:
– Mustard ‘Florida Broadleaf’
– Mizuna (Red Leafed)
– Kale ‘Rainbow’
– Mustard ‘Red Crimson’

I then went around the garden and picked a bunch of greens!!!… Mostly from the front yard, but also got some Kale from the back. The greens include: Collards, Curly Leaf Kale, Dwarf Blue Curled Kale, Red Russian Kale, Redbor (G2) Kale, Kailaan, Broccoli Raab, Bright Lights Swiss Chard and Beet greens.

Lots of harvested Greens: Collards, various Kales, Gailaan, Broccoli Raab, Swiss Chard and Beet Greens

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Harvested Broccoli Raab and Bright Lights Swiss Chard

I chopped then up and sautéed them with Onions, Garlic and olive Oil with a touch of Chicken Stock, Salt and Pepper… and they turned out so good!

Sautéed Homegrown Mixed Greens (and Yellows and Reds)

Winter Greens sorted out and potted out…

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The tray of winter greens that I planted back in November have grown and I can now tell what is what… (My great-niece tripped over them and mixed them all up.)

Mixed Up Winter Greens

I planted the Bok Choy Folia seedling into hanging pots in out front yard, since there is more light there. I’ll plant another batch in a few days for the backyard garden.

Bok Choy 'Joi Choi' Planted

I also potted up the Broad Leaf Mustard Folia from the Jiffy Peat Pellets into a large pot (Solo drinking cup) to get them to grow a little bigger before planting them out.

Mustard 'Broad Leaf'

More Winter Veggies Sown + Sprouting Agrostemma…

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I sowed more Winter Veggies into Jiffy Peat Pellets (4 each):
– Flowering Kale Folia
– Bok Choy ‘Joi Choi’ (2010-2011 Batch 2) Folia
– Mustard ‘Broad Leaf’ Folia
– Misome Folia

More Winter Veggies Sown

I also sowed some Lettuce and Mesclun into cell-packs with vermiculite:
– Lettuce ‘Mightly Red Oak’ Folia
– Lettuce ‘Marvel of Four Seasons’ Folia
– Lettuce ‘Prizehead’ Folia
– Mesclun ‘Zesty Salad Mix’ Folia

Lettuce and Mesclun Sown

A few weeks ago, I left some dried Agrostemma Folia seedheads outside and forgot to collect the seeds. With our recent rain, they got wet and started to germinate, so I took some of the sprouts and planted them in 4″ pots.

Agrostemma Sprouting

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