Jane has been doing a great job holding down most of the watering and weeding. Those little caterpillars are having a field day on the Brussels sprouts leaves. We pick them off pretty much every day.

I’ve made quite a few dishes already with the lettuces and herbs. We’ve been pulling at the leaves without taking the whole head out so they grow back. I am pretty astonished at just how well everything is doing.

We have only had a couple of casualties to date. Some of the lettuces wilted and a few of the seeds never really got moving.

Last night we spent almost 3 hours harvesting the broccoli rabe, kohlrabi, arugula and all of the beets. It was quite an operation to pull, clean and store everything that we needed to. Norman was over and he took a portion of them. We are all learning together and it helps to have a cook like him to know what to do with things once they are up.

He is making some pesto out of a bunch of the arugula so we aren’t slammed with salad 3 times a day just to use it all up.

I’m planning on roasting some beets tonight to make a beet and orange salad with the greens from the beets.

There is a lot to learn and experiment with, but it has been very rewarding so far.

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