Yes, you read that right. Today, April 21st, we ate our first garden salad.
Remember my cold frames from last fall? Well, as you can see in this picture below, most of the plants came through brilliantly and today we had our first salad from the garden, with enough lettuce to have salad for another 10 or so meals.
One casualty
Two of the three cold frames performed beautifully, but in February I discovered that the glass in the third cold frame had broken. It was a larger window and I’m guessing the weight of the snow was too much. So two of the three cabbages in that broken cold frame did not survive. But it looks like the third cabbage plant has revived with the warmer weather and will be giving us a nice head of cabbage in a couple more weeks.
Tasty spring salad
To my cold-frame lettuce, I added a yellow and orange carrot (these are from last year’s harvest. They’ve been stored in the basement root cellar all winter.) a sliced Jerusalem artichoke and green Egyptian walking onions. Both of these are from my perennial vegetable bed.
This is a great way to start off the gardening season, with promises of better things to come.
