harvesting: last week of june

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my black raspberries are ripening!
saturday evening i stood in the backyard with a good friend and her silly children picking everything we could find and consuming it immediately.

this week i'll pull a few sweet onions too. the market no longer has any spring onions and i am missing them something terrible. i just love the little slivers of them in a salad.

things are starting to get exciting...

harvesting: second week of june

one thing i am not harvesting: salad. the chickens absolutely destroyed my salad greens!
but there is plenty of arugula and broccoli raab to make up for it. and a smattering of chard.

and i started picking some gooseberries off my gooseberry bush, although i think i may have picked them a little early—but i don't know how to tell since they are naturally tart.

its a very slow start to the season. rain, rain, rain.

harvesting: third week of may

today andrea at Heavy Petal posted the beginning of a new series: Now Harvesting.

i like the idea and i'm not going to steal it but i'll respond to it in the manner which blogs often work: by blogging it. it happily coincides with my first 'harvest' of any sort from the garden

so this week i have finally begun to harvest salad greens. the arugula is almost ready.

i've also pulled up two french breakfast radishes and dove in to my fresh chives, thyme, savory and rosemary. i predict next week will bring the addition of spinach!

right now is when i feel the pangs the hardest and regret my slow start the most. even still, i am enjoying fresh salad from the garden immensely. its hard to stay down with a fresh plate of homegrown veggies.