Barefoot Kitchen Witch - In the Garden

Hardening Off - 2 April 2008

We've got a small cold frame (I think it was originally my parents'?) that Bill is using to harden off some of the first vegetables that have come up.  The thing is, because the frame has metal sides, it can cast shadows if it's not alligned properly with the sun.  So one of us has to go outside periodically to reposition the cold frame and the plants inside so that they will get ALL sun ALL the time.

Bill also told me that the peas have poked through the dirt in their buckets along the driveway.  I took a quick look this morning but it was really windy and chilly and I went back inside without finding any green.

I'll check again later.

Or tomorrow. 

Or whenever the wind dies down.  Like some time in July, probably.

First Harvest - 29 March 2008

Really!  See those tiny little greens on top of this Warm Honey-Mustard Tofu Salad?  Those are little seedlings Bill thinned from the arugula, cilantro and red lettuce pots.  Aren't they cute?  And they have flavor - they taste like, well, like arugula, cilantro and red lettuce.  Pretty cool, huh?

Broccoli Rabe is In! - 23 March 2008

Bill planted the whole raised bed with broccoli rabe - it'll come up early - before we need to plant anything else - and it's one of my favorites.  So this is in, and the peas.  Yay, Spring.