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Post by brownrexx on Feb 20, 2019 10:30:33 GMT -5
Many of us are longing for Spring.
What is the first vegetable or fruit that you will harvest?
Mine is rhubarb followed by asparagus.
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Post by spike on Feb 20, 2019 10:40:39 GMT -5
Maybe peas?
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Post by ladymarmalade on Feb 20, 2019 11:46:24 GMT -5
I've actually been harvesting portabella mushrooms. Does that count? It's from a kit I bought at Christmas time. My intentions had been to harvest most of them as smaller cremini mushrooms, but one minute they're too small and the next time I look, BAM, they're monsters. I apologize for the scandalous way the shrooms seem to present themselves. They're giving me quite the education in indecent behavior.
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Post by paquebot on Feb 20, 2019 13:19:57 GMT -5
Not this year but previous have been parsnips and rapunzel/feldsalat. This year it will probably be rhubarb.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Feb 20, 2019 13:23:26 GMT -5
The first of the year would have been lettuce (from big box store transplants), followed by tatsoi and bok choy. More recently I have been harvesting peas, a little broccoli, and a few strawberries. And I have some itty-bitty cabbages out there ready to go as well. Down here, the garden down doesn't stop in winter; I just grow different vegetables.
Soon I will start ripping winter veggies out to make room for planting tomatoes in early March.
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Post by guruofgardens on Feb 20, 2019 13:34:48 GMT -5
rhubarb in May garlic in June or July
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Post by september on Feb 20, 2019 15:03:42 GMT -5
Walking onions, then lettuce.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Feb 20, 2019 16:44:17 GMT -5
The Asian greens in May beat out the peas by a couple weeks. Before that are all of the perennial herbs, that show up without any work every season, tarragon always being my earliest.
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Post by octave1 on Feb 20, 2019 17:48:40 GMT -5
No idea. Hoping for parsley since the fall planted spinach is certainly dead. And maybe carrots.
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 20, 2019 18:16:37 GMT -5
since the fall planted spinach is certainly dead. Don't give up just yet. I had some pretty dead looking spinach pop up in the spring one year. That stuff is pretty durable. I don't have any this year but it will be one of the first things that I plant this year.
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Post by meandtk on Feb 21, 2019 14:49:06 GMT -5
Wando peas and potatoes in May, unless I get some lettuce in soon.
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Post by bestofour on Feb 21, 2019 22:47:44 GMT -5
I'll say green peas since the rosemary can be harvested in my yard all year and this year the parsley has remained green too.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 22, 2019 9:18:48 GMT -5
Egyptian Onions then rhubarb
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Post by tamaraann on Feb 27, 2019 2:29:23 GMT -5
Probably peas, greens, rhubarb and asparagus....can't wait!!!
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Post by reubent on Mar 8, 2019 0:16:44 GMT -5
First harvest; of what? when? Of anything and of the year, I could just go to the greenhouse and eat some greens on Jan 1. I don't remember if I did, but I have been eating some, kind of slowed down lately since everything but the escarole decided to put up flower stalks. The little bitty mustard family wild greens in the garden are blooming, they taste pretty good even though there's not much to them. I didn't plant them though. The way things are we could be harvesting and eating from Jan 1 to December 31. The selection would vary tremendously through the year.
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Post by ahntjudy on Mar 10, 2019 16:39:06 GMT -5
Does eating a piece of leaf of one of my parsley seedlings count?...
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Post by Gianna on Mar 13, 2019 22:28:51 GMT -5
Here (SoCal) that would depend on what was still hanging on from last year. This year it's been potatoes in containers, tomatoes from last year's plants, some onions, vigorous collards that love the rain, are very old and refuse to die, a couple chili peppers, and a few stray early blueberries.
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