Lettuce & Radish Harvest

Dear Garden-Lovers,

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Radish Harvest

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Today in the garden we harvested lettuce and radish. The radish are not "hot" and are very juicy and delish, plus completely worm-free as they were grown beneathe "Reemay" cloth which keeps those bugs OUT! 

See photo collages below, and inventive radish recipes to try! So nice to taste the first produce for salads after a long cool spring that's lasted til today! 

mounding potatoes & transplanting scallions

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Also check out the mounding potatoes which are developing so fast now that the weather is warming up. There is so much to see in the garden these days! Go have a look at the herbs and asparagus!!!

A reminder from the garden meeting about cutting asparagus: if you just break the tip off at ground level it will not re-grow. If you scoop away a little soil and use a knife to cut it off below the soil level by two inches or so, it will re-grow.

The "cut and come again" Mesclun that's between the reemay rectangles of radish is cut down to two inches when it is four to five inches tall, so it can re-grow one more time; so wait for it.

Recipes below for all those radishes!