Muskoka Lakes Gardens

Leafy Greens Harvest 2017

Winter season is midway via and I’m unwell of it. In excess of it. Worn out of the back and forth freezing and thaw. This 7 days snow and ice, subsequent week thaw and mud. I’m missing the garden significant time, but what I’m missing most aren’t flowers, shiny colours, smells, or residing soil, while I miss out on people matters also.

What I extensive for, what my body craves, are the leafy greens harvests. I pass up that variety of flavours, nutrition, and phytochemicals from my eating plan anything intense. I miss the rituals of sowing, harvesting, processing out tough stems and debris, and washing the leaves. I miss filling up a pan with a medley of colour, shapes, and textures and I pass up the experience in my system as it requires all that superior things in.

In 2017, the very last handful of clean greens have been harvested from my garden on December 2 (top rated left) and the to start with plate on April 10 (bottom of website page). Harvests are pictured chronologically from base to leading.






Years in the past, I wrote about a wish to increase more than enough leafy greens to turn into unbiased from market and grocery retail outlet purchases, at minimum by means of the growing period. With some exceptions I’ve realized that and there are even instances in the season when I am capable to produce an abundance of surplus to share with friends. That’s a very significant deal contemplating how significantly we consume day-to-day concerning just the two of us. WE Love GREENS!

Previous 12 months I made a decision to doc each individual single leafy greens harvest from the back garden. Collectively, Davin and I skipped a number of, but for the most component, the visuals I have compiled underneath, help save a handful of times below and there, characterize the leafy greens we harvested via the 2017 rising time. As you will see, I involved edible flowers and some herbs in these photographs considering that they went into the bags and eventually into the pan and on the plate alongside the greens. If you’d like to comply with alongside throughout the increasing season, I tag each individual impression posted to Instagram #yougrowgirlgreens.

As escalating edible greens turns into a larger emphasis of my gardening apply, I intend to publish additional here about my experiences, suggestions, and the crops that have turn out to be my staples. In my upcoming put up I will record out all of the plants that are depicted in these pictures. I feel you’ll be amazed by the variety accessible and the crops that have grow to be my favourites.

December 27, 2021

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