Tuesday, April 3, 2012

First Harvest of 2012!!

It's April. I have harvest food for us to eat. Actual food. From our garden. Amazing.

This is bonus food because it's the result of my laziness. You see, last Fall, when I tidied ripped up the spent garden, I neglected to tear out all of the spinach. So I left it. For no other reason than because I wanted to go inside. That the spinach survived our freakishly mild cold winter is completely the spinach's responsibility-it was just dumb luck on my part. I did nothing to protect it, baby it, cover it, nada.

Here it is earlier this year (February 17, to be exact):


And here's my glorious TWO ounces of spinach. Washed and waiting to be served with dinner.



 I'm thinking spinach meatballs--my kids will eat 'em and it's the only way to stretch 2oz of spinach into 5 servings.

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7 comments:

  1. How lovely! I love it when I find things like this out in the garden--no work and all the glory!

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  2. A spring bonus-how nice! I'm just itching for some fresh greens!!!

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    1. I picked those 2 plants clean because I was so happy to have fresh spinach :)

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  3. Yumm - I love fresh spinach! Enjoy.

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  4. Yes- I always call that my "overwintered" spinach. ;-) But it does always get us the first harvest of the year, just like you! Fun.

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