Harvest Time.

Radish leaves growing close to a foot in length, fortunately still very tender.

Swiss chards, Zuccini, lettuce and argula.

Have it for lunch, with my wife, simple salad sprinkle with red wine vinegar, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, salt, pepper, parmesan cheese and age old goulda cheese. Yum Yum Yum.

Salad Spinner

With all the salad greens, what I need is a good salad spinner.

Did a couple of research on the web. The reviewed on OXO was excellent, and it seems like there are no downside to it. Well, it convinced me and I'm set to buy OXO from Bed, Bath and Beyond, and lo and behold, I was exposed to a few more other choices. So on the spot evaluation, I compared OXO with Progressive (if you want more details - I attached the ads on this blog.).

4 decision criteria:
1) brake to stop spinning - how to quickly stop the spinning basket. Progressive is so much more user friendly with instant stop. While OXO, you have to press a black button to create friction between two rubberised materials for it to stop, depend on your pressure. Also, it seems like the wear and tear on the OXO braking device will not outlast the bowl itself.

2) OXO has a 2" to 3" protruding housing in the middle of the cover, this is to house the mechanism for spinning. it may not be good for the greens as it took up some space. As for the Progressive it is flat.

3) The cover handle, OXO is more superior as the cover is more easily remove. Progressive lacks the grip to open the cover, but it is not too difficult to open it.

4) Price OXO is $10 more expensive than Progressive. Watchout, there are 2 different sizes for OXO.

So 3 out of 4 points, I chose Progressive.

Just added a trellis yesterday, with the helped of my 4 yrs old son. Notice that I used a pvc right angle joint, it should hold it together. If not, I will drill a hole right through the joint and use a nail to hold it.

Also planted Korean melon and water melon.

Added a new SFG

Took me closed to 30 minutes to build this frame, made from composite wood. Originally, looking at this orientaion, decided to change to the one below.

Now I have 2 frames, and I had already plant bell pepper, bok choy and basil. All from seeds. Need to install drip system, maybe tomorrow.

Slowly replacing lawn with SFG, and redirecting precious water to edibles vegetation than to grass (lawn).

Update on the tomatoes. beautiful, with plenty of babies. May need to add more chicken manure this weekend.

Pole Bean climbing steadily up.

This baby landed on my lunch plate. (Zuccini)