The Modern Victory Garden

Each Monday, Daphne’s Dandelions hosts “Harvest Monday” where everyone submits links to their blog posts summarizing their harvest for the week.   It’s fun to see what people are producing from gardens in so many different regions and how they are using the harvest bounty.   Check it out and join in!           

 On Wednesday I harvested quite a few of the remaining celery plants.           

After this harvest, there are still six plants left growing in the garden.   I removed all the really nicely sized plants, leaving the smaller ones to keep growing for fresh use needs.   The Wednesday harvest was all washed and sliced up and frozen for future use.               

The spring planted broccoli is winding down but still producing rather significant amounts of side shoots on a regular basis.   A half-pound of broccoli side shoots were harvested on Thursday night and used to make a chicken and broccoli stir-fry with a spicy Thai peanut sauce (served on a bed of rice noodles).                           

The turnip patch is producing good-sized roots for harvest.   I have been just thinning out the bigger ones, which leaves room for the remaining roots to continue growing.    Over four pounds of turnips were harvested on Friday and I used them to make a cream of turnip soup.   This was an okay meal but not great.   I prefer turnips in stir fry and coleslaw much better.                  

On Saturday a large head of savoy cabbage was harvested.               

This was used to make a coleslaw salad by peeling/coring and then dicing up an apple and adding it to the cleaned and finely chopped up cabbage leaves and then dressing it with my favorite creamy coleslaw dressing

• 3/4 cup mayonnaise
• 1/8 cup maple syrup
• 1/8 cup lemon juice
• sprinkle of ground nutmeg

The last harvest this week was some mixed lettuces and a couple of large radishes.  The radishes did not weigh enough to round up to ¼ lb and are therefore not in the harvest tally for the week.            

The lettuce was washed, spun dried, torn into chunks, and then made into a large salad with thinly sliced radishes, sliced pitted kalamata olives, fresh crumbled goat cheese, and crispy croutons.                       

Harvest totals for the week of June 27th through July 3rd (rounded to the nearest ¼ pound).

• Broccoli 0.50 lbs
• Cabbage 1.00 lbs
• Celery 4.75 lbs
• Lettuce 0.50 lbs
• Turnips 4.00 lbs

Total For Week 10.75 lbs

Total Year To Date 85.50 lbs                              

Eggs collected this week – 29                                 

Have a safe and fun Fourth of July!                            

Laura

kitsapfreedomgardener