Due to the extremely hot weather last week, we had to harvest all of our romaine lettuces and broccoli due to "bolting." Bolting is a common problem experienced when growing cool weather crops and getting an early heat wave. Bolting is an undesirable formation of flowers and seeds in vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli, and cauliflower. Bolting destroys the flavor of the leaves and florets by making them bitter and tough. It is caused by high temperatures, long periods of high light intensities, and drought.
Even though we didn't get to harvest all of our vegetables when we wanted to, we are excited to see so many healthy vegetables come out of our garden by the first week of June. Currently, we have harvested the following vegetables from our garden:
- 8 heads of romaine lettuce
- 6 bags of lettuce
- 4 bags of spinach
- 5 bunches of radishes
- 2 bags of sugar snap peas
- 5 broccoli heads
- 1 cabbage
- 6 onions
- 3 funky carrots
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| Sometimes you have to put on a pretty dress to proudly show off your greens |
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| Broccoli before it bolted |
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| When romaine lettuce bolts, it looks like there is a pineapple shooting out of the top |
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| Sugar Snap Peas |
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| Funky carrots #1 & 2 |
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| Funky carrot #3 likes to dance through the air :) |
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