My kingdom for a battery

So yesterday was beautiful and we went out to the garden with the intention of picking things and thinning the turnips. We should have thinned them weeks ago but we’ve had huge things going on in our lives lately and so there hasn’t been time. They are well thinned now so hopefully we have enough grow-friendly days left before the cold really sets in.

I picked radishes again. I left some in the dirt so if it isn’t raining on Tuesday when I spend the day with The Niece we can go out and pick some more. After I vote, of course.

We didn’t save the radish greens this time because we picked a boatload of other leafy greens including kale, turnip greens from the thinned plants and mustard. Here’s a shot of a recycled vegetable bag filled with mustard:

I wish I had pictures of the other marvelous vegetables but the batteries in the camera died just as I was about to take those shots.

I steamed some of the mustard last night with shallots, garlic and lemon juice. Delicious. We had the mustard with gyros. We found frozen gyro meat at a local Mediterranean bakery about a week ago and we made tzatziki with that Greek yogurt we can now find in our area. I would have taken a picture of the lovely gyros but in addition to dead batteries in the regular camera the old back-up camera had no juice either. I was racing around the house trying to find batteries to stuff in the old camera but couldn’t find enough rechargeable batteries that had a friggin’ charge in order to take pictures. Last night we had three chargers going with various types of batteries.

The cabbage is looking like it is about to head up and the broccoli looks pretty good but no florets have formed yet. It may be that we were too late and we’ll just eat leaves and stalks or they are about to burst out. I don’t know, we’ve never grown those before. The spinach is limping along but the seeds I put in a big pot are starting to come up and look like tiny little spinach. The potted kale is also starting to show it’s curly ways.