The weather has been so beautiful this week with temperatures in the 60s and 70s we have been inspired to work in the gardens. The veggie boxes have been ignored up to this point.
We planted some leftover cabbage and kohlrabi but that was all we had in for the winter.
So today I got out there and cleaned up - cut back the Italian oregano and sweet marjoram and put in new salad greens.
At the top of this photo you see kale. Lovely Toscano kale, aka dinosaur kale, which has great texture and color - a cool blue-gray. I like to use it for kale chips. Surrounding that is Redbor kale, one of the hardiest and most attractive of the kales. In the bottom of the photo is arugula and one lonely purple mizuna, the last one left.
Behind the kohlrabi went yellow-stemmed Sunset Swiss chard and Ruby Red chard.
A few Salad Bowl lettuces, flattened from the water I put them after planting. They will perk up in a couple of days.
The finished project. I left empty spaces in the boxes because next month we will be sowing seeds for carrots, beets, radishes and snap peas. Maybe planting a few potatoes as well.
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