2013 Garden: Harvesting!

A few more weeks have passed and the greens in the garden continue to thrive. What we first believed were slugs preying on the greens we now think it is birds. Tiny thrushes, if you can believe it! The pallet is below a towering bougainvillea plant that is home to, what sounds like, dozens of the little things. On numerous occasions we’ve seen them hopping around on the pallet tearing at the greens! When I catch them I go out and shoo them off. But, their home is right there and they and I know that they’re safe in there.

Despite the little things predations we have more lettuce and cabbage than we know what to do with. I see a lot of salads in our future! D started picking leaves off of a Chinese cabbage and some of the green leaf lettuce. Neither one of them has a lot to recommend in the taste department, they are leafy greens after all, the cabbage has a little spice and a little bitterness to it.

We never harvest a whole head of anything. With just the two of us things often end up wilting or spoiling before we get through all of it. By just tearing off the leaves we will use for each meal the plants keep living and we don’t have to worry about spoilage. I think now that we’re harvesting and eating the veggies that we can call the pallet garden a success. I’m tempted to try and grow more appealing vegetables during the second half of the summer. Maybe we can get some tomatoes or squashes out of this as well?

I’ll have to remember to take pictures of the food we use the vegetables in next time!

Author: Jonathon

Would rather be out swimming, running, or camping. Works in state government. Spent a youth reading genre-fiction; today, he is making up for it by reading large quantities of non-fiction literature. The fact that truth, in every way, is more fascinating than fiction still tickles him. View all posts by Jonathon