Cool and rainy today, on CSA box packing day. Lots to harvest: Spinach, mizuna, green onions, and garlic scapes. Scapes are the tender tops the plant grows where the flower will appear. If given the chance the plant will expend its energy growing the flower. But, we don't want the flowers, we want bigger bulbs. So we pull the scapes. They look a little like the green part of a green onion. They can be minced and used just like minced garlic.
Yesterday we harvested leaf lettuce, peas, asparagus and radishes. And, for those who didn't get it last week, rhubarb from the neighbor.
After all the boxes were packed and put in the walk-in cooler, we moved the meat chickens to some fresh grass. With all the rain, the grass was very wet, and they'd be able to give themselves a little bath before their "field trip" tomorrow.......
Love the boots! I had similar ones when I sailed--and I always loved stomping around in them...and the fact that my feet stayed dry and warm, too!
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