Yesterday’s Harvest

Oregano, Reflections, Strawberries

Hello and Welcome.

Other than a few handfuls of asparagus and a lot of green onions, this is our first harvest of the year. These strawberries will be eaten fresh, and some were added to our strawberry pancakes for breakfast. They are so sweet!

The green leafy stems are oregano. I will be drying them for future use. I usually just air dry my herbs either by laying them out on a newspaper or paper towel (since newspaper is hard to come by nowadays) or by tying them in a bundle and hanging them. Depending on the herb it may take a few days to a few weeks to completely dry. Then I store them in an airtight container for future use.

I expect that we will be harvesting strawberries throughout the month of June and maybe even throughout the summer as we have some plants that are the everbearing variety. The next herb I plan on harvesting, probably this week, is thyme.

Thanks for visiting.

18 thoughts on “Yesterday’s Harvest”

      1. We were supposed to get a storm this afternoon – I am trying to put a weed spray on and it has to be a certain temperature, a sunny day and no wind … trying to get all three factors is delicious. They do look delicious for pie or on ice cream.

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  7. I’m jealous……I planted 4 new everbearing strawberrys a few weeks ago and they had berries on them, but the birds feasted on them! I need to get some netting over them. I did have a nice crop of early lettuce, which came up from seed throughout the strawberry patch. I don’t remember planting it there at all. There was so much that I shared it with two neighbours. I planted 5 other kinds of lettuce which are progressing nicely. Do you plant lettuce Ruth? And my rhubarb looks great….it could really be picked now. It would be nicer if it ripened at the same time as the strawberries but they always seem to be out of sync.

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    1. I do think that netting is the best protection against birds. Last year our everbearing berries were still producing in October. My neighbor just brought me some rhubarb, so I’ll probably make a strawberry-rhubarb crisp the freeze the rest of the rhubarb.
      I’m jealous of your lettuce! We have not had much success with that. In the early spring our gardens are usually too wet to do any planting, so we have tried growing leaf lettuce in garden boxes on our deck. We usually get enough to put on a few sandwiches but never had enough to make a nice salad before it bolts.
      The other problem with lettuce is it’s done growing before all of the other salad veggies are ready (like your rhubarb and strawberries).
      I think my husband did put in a partial row of lettuce in the garden this year so we will see how it goes.

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      1. I find lettuce easy to grow but then I plant it in a plantar box. The spring rains get it off to a good start so I start early in the season, and then will sometimes put in another crop from seed packets in in late July/August, but if it’s too hot and dry it doesn’t do as well as the June crop. I grow it from seed and also in May buy seedlings. I have 4 different types growing now – romaine, buttercrunch, leaf lettuce and that red leaf stuff. I’ll be posting a photo about it eventually, probably by the end of the month. One year when I had an August crop, the tomatoes and cucumbers were ready all at the same time, so I didn’t even have to go to the store!

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