Harvest Monday March 24, 2025

It’s time for Harvest Monday, where gardeners from all over celebrate all things harvest related. This will be a short report for me this week, as I am still recovering from my recent surgery and doing a lot of resting. I did get a nice head of Starfighter lettuce from the greenhouse for use on sandwiches and cold wraps. There’s more lettuce ready now out there, and hopefully I will be in the mood for salads again soon.

Starfighter lettuce

And I got a cutting of Winterbor kale last week for use in soups. This one and Starbor have done very well this winter in the greenhouse, despite our cold winter weather.

Winterbor kale

I love the kale in soups, and some of this batch wound up in a pot of soup I made with cannellini beans, kale and tubetti pasta, with a bit of leftover rotisserie chicken in as well. It ticked all the boxes for me and my wife.

soup with beans, kale and pasta

In non-harvest news (or should I say ‘mews’?), Nurse Ally Cat has been taking good care of me during my recent recovery from surgery. She makes regular visits to my room to check on me, and her bedside manner is purrrrr-fect! My wife Lynda has been taking good care of me too, and I am well on my way to recovery. I still won’t be doing any gardening for a few more weeks though, at least until I get my stitches out in early April.

visit from Ally

Lynda has found out how much ‘fun’ it is keeping a greenhouse full of baby plants watered and alive. She is checking the plants daily and doing a great job! Some of these will need to be planted soon and I will need her help with that too.

lettuce seedlings

Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to share, add your name and blog link to Mr Linky below. And please check out what everyone is harvesting!




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