Topic: chard
I buried the salmon carcasses from Sunday's fishing in my raised beds, where some of the plants were not thriving. If they're not happy by now they won't produce this summer. Goodbye arugula, Caserta squash, and strawberry spinach. I transplanted some overcrowded kale and chard into the cleared soil atop the fish.
My spinach bolted so I harvested it all. When the days turned shorted, there it went. Bolting is a problem with greens here, and is why we're so limited on varieties that produce well.
Last night we had our first Chard meal. It was mostly Lucullus with some Rhubarb chard. The Lucullus grows the fastest of all the varieties I've tried, but it's also the mildest, almost too mild for cooking. I'll have to try it raw next time. The chard is definitely light limited, because this first harvest is from my sunniest bed.
