
I've been cutting the chard and broccoli back pretty hard the last few weeks. Neither one will be gone forever; they just need a week or two to regrow a bit, which shouldn't take long in this spring-like weather. But bulb fennel is back, and the first crop of spinach is finally ready! I usually have spinach now through about May, but you may notice that it seems to change a bit over the course of the next five to six months. I use several different varieties to get through that whole harvest period, some is planted outdoors, some in the greenhouse, some under row covers. Some of those varieties are a baby smooth-leafed spinach, others are larger crinkly-leaved varieties. The baby spinach seems to be more popular and grows better through the winter months, and depending on what sort of winter we're in for, eventually we switch over to the savoyed spinach for spring.