I know I can check my posts to see what I planted/harvested but I thought I'd use this post for a list so I know what I have by Mid May. I like to take pictures of my bouquets for the same reason. I pretty much know which flowers are early, mid and late, it's just not the dates. So, here's what I have been harvesting this month:
Cauliflower - Rushmore - first pick around the first of May. Denali never matured. Rushmore is a beautiful, self blanching cauliflower!
Broccoli - probably hybrid mix from Johnny's since I lost a lot of the others. We cut small heads because I thought they were ruined from the late freeze, but we have been picking side shoots. I am getting some big heads now and it is from the ones that stayed covered and didn't get hit as much from the freeze.
Cabbage - Early Gonzales is a small cabbage, great for two people. Early Jersey is the CONICAL shaped cabbage I think is so weird. And
Copenhagen is the larger heads.
Chinese Cabbage - this matures quickly and this year the mini wasn't so mini. We did well selling at market even with holes. The tatsoi and bok choi acted as the trap crop for the flea beetles. HAVE TO KEEP ROW COVER ON!
Bok Choi - a waste of my time. No one wants it. Matt and Ennie ate it once. Most went to the compost.
Radishes - pretty much finished. I have a second planting in but what I tasted were HOT!
Carrots - still small but larger enough. Miranda and I planted them around March 4 in a raised bed.
Beets - should have had by now but terrible germination this year. I had four small ones I put in a roasting bundle
Parsnips - started harvesting two weeks ago. There is a mix of large and small ones.
Lettuce - leaf lettuce has been coming in since first of April and we just put it under shade cloth and have been watering almost every day. Hoping it will last a couple more weeks.
Lettuce - loosehead/crisphead came in all at once. First harvest last week and second this past Saturday and it's pretty much done. I was very happy with the crisphead (Great Lakes). Also, I like the bibb and should remember to mainly grow those two as well as the one red french type from Rick Corey.
Spinach - I think I planted three kinds but I cannot remember which is which. I will have to double check but they all did much better this year. The spinach is finished for the season now.
Turnips - actually when I pulled some this week there were some really large ones. The red ones didn't do so well but I will save seeds.
Asparagus - we are pretty much finished picking it now. We had several weeks of it and would have more if I let David keep picking.
Peas - Really starting to produce this week. Snow peas/Giant Oregon - I love this pea but germination is spotty so I presprouted and did much better. Sweet Horizon. I like both but I am really liking the sweet horizons. Very prolific! - Sugar snap - Dwarf Gray. Old reliable!
Cucumber - In the greenhouse planted. Amiga I think. Very thin skinned and not bitter. Picked the first ones this week.
Beans - pole beans - French Gold planted in the greenhouse. I picked the first this week. Not a lot but a bit handful.
Bush beans - Provider - picked today but probably there were some we could have sold at market. We got one of the grape container clam shells full.
Bush beans - Goldcrop - first picking today. A couple of handfuls
Strawberries - We have been picking the Robinsons since the end of April. They are small this year. Not enough to have any to sell.
Sweet Charley - first year picking (fall) only picked a few so far. Much later maturing. They are setting out runners right and left though.
Whopper - first year planting (spring) and producing some nice sized berries. They have white shoulders but are very sweet.
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