This week I've already started harvesting Arugula. Last year after harvesting sweet potatoes, I planted some Arugula to go with my Everglades Tomatoes and Cuban Oregano. As it turned out I had a Saturday Morning Breakfast with a good friend. And one day I decide to make a veggie omelette with all my goodies.
Yes, organic omelette with Arugula, Oregano, Tomatoes, and also I had Rosemary and Basil out there too. It was really the Arugula that was new, and now I save the seeds to plant after sorting soils from the potatoes. It was really great to eat, and I let it flower and go to seed and ended up getting thousands of seeds. So this year, as soon as I had my first bed set with the new potato soil, I got out my seeds I saved from last year.
Yes, two or three rows of Arugula in the front already. Then I started some in the back, next to the papaya after I filled those beds with potato soil too. Here at the right is a picture of the garden bed at Church, where I added some Arugula there too. You can see the big leaves of Basil there in the center too. Those came from Father Curtis's garden last year . . . they were sprouting up all over his yard, so I moved them over here.
There are other little green sprouts in this bed too. Those were the first planting that the 4H Students at the Church did. I added the rest over the holidays, when I dropped by to water what has been planted so far. Interesting enough the Arugula shown here at church was all fried in the sunshine. These beds at the church get full sun all day. The plants in the my frontyard garden only get direct sun for part of the day.
Here in my backyard it's maybe twice as much sunshine, but not all direct, and certainly not all day. So on Sunday when I got home from Church I was starving. I've been fasting from dinner until after the Eucharist in morning mass. So when I got home I thought to make my omelette, as I have all the beautiful Arugula growing here in the backyard that I need to thin out. I know I just dumped a bunch of seeds there, and it's a solid clump of leaves I need to eat. Yes the harvesting is this video above. . . now the second video below is making my morning omelettes. . . YUM!
