Before I get to the first harvest, I wanted to follow up on my last blog entry. The post was about the unusually warm weather. I think it was three nights after that entry, we supposedly had a frost. I didn't leave the house till after 9 that morning, but the forecast had called for widespread frost throughout the greater Rochester area, so I assume it happened. My plants look fine. In fact, my Arugula and Pak Choi look ready for their first thinning.
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Thats the arugula in the foreground and the pak choi further back, with some of the bulbing onions (from sets) in the background. Some of the arugula has 2 actual leaves (as opposed to the baby leaves), while some of the pak choi has reached 4 actual leaves. Regardless of the number of leaves, they are starting to compete for resources, so I thinned both to one plant every 1-2", leaving the bigger, stronger looking ones behind. Now of course I wasn't going to let those perfect micro-greens go to waste! Here they are sitting on some turkey burgers.
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Mmm.....Its actually pretty impressive how much flavor these tiny little greens have. The arugula was particularly delicious.
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