This Morning's Harvest, Tonight's Dinner

For almost a week I've been noticing that the lettuce has been growing cheek-by-jowl and should be harvested in the name of thinning so the remaining plants can have more room to grow.

I've also been noticing that the beet greens are growing nice and thick again.

So this morning I went out with my harvest baskets and had a grand time filling them, first with beet greens to steam...

and, while I was in the neighborhood, I thinned the scallions to use as chives or green onions.

Then I moved over to the lettuce and pulled several very young heading-type lettuce plants, a couple of loose-leaf lettuce plants, and plucked a few loose-leaf leaves.

Then I popped over to the row of carrots and thinned out a few more. Lastly, I stopped by the cherry tomato bush to pluck a half-dozen tomatoes for my salad.

All-in-all, quite a nice harvest!

Pretty soon I'll be harvesting spinach, too!