Saturday, July 23, 2011

Kale

Big harvest today!!!

I finally managed to harvest most of the kale.  I harvested everything that I was not going to be able to eat and froze it.  I just blanched it for 2 min, ice water 2 min and then into the freezer in zip lock bags.
I didn’t realize kale would get quite that big, and seeing as I don’t eat it on a daily basis I have also been giving some of it away to a co-worker who eats it.

That is all of the shallots in the middle and potoatoes on the right and bottom

I also harvested all of my shallots, some garlic and a couple potatoes plants.  The shallots looked pretty good although they were a little small.  The garlic was also pretty small, it was spring planted garlic and in a shadier spot.  All future garlic will be planted in full fun in the fall around mid-September.  The potatoes had one hill with nothing but disease and the other had only 3-4 potatoes.  These were the blue ones (maybe Macintosh) I planted.  Also from the bottom bed that does get significantly more shade.




You can see the potatoe scab on the potatoes aspecially the one on the left.

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