i'm wondering if we could all share our harvesting knowledge since we are starting to have a pretty good looking garden (despite what some older neighbors may think...). we have lots of lettuce, chard, beets... and tonight we spotted a few peas!
i read in the gardening book that chard should be harvested by picking (meaning taking a leaf and snapping it off at the stem) some of the bigger leaves from each plant and leaving some of the other leaves. i guess this keeps the plant viable so more chard can grow. when i harvested some chard the other day, i was able to get a pretty big bag just from picking a few leaves from each of the plants.
oh, i also know that beets are ready when you can see their tops coming out of the ground. please don't eat the beets without eating the greens, or at least seeing if anyone wants the greens. they are super-tasty and it would be sad if they went to waste.
any other harvesting advice? how soon to pick things, how to pick them, etc... we need help.
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You harvest lettuce the same as chard - picking some of the lerger leaves by breaking them off down near the stem.
As for beets, i think that some of them are sticking out but still too small - I would wait until they are at least golf ball sized.
The beets are starting to look good, we should probably start to pull some of them soon.
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