 So good and welcome to getting clean on the prairies So another week of work for me is done the weekends here And I'm anxious to get out into my garden and do some work do some harvesting The all my leafy green lettuces are coming along really good. I'm gonna show you how I harvest my leafy greens using the cut and come again tight method and We will go inside and get them washed up and I'll show you how I store them And maybe we'll even get to put together a delicious salad So you can see here that the grass is turning brown. It is so dry here now and We haven't had much rain the weatherman is predicting another heat wave up into the Lota high 90s, which is in Canada here. Those are mid-30s 30 degrees Celsius and I'm sure for those who live south and in the warmer growing zones. That doesn't seem to be a very a real heat wave in Compared to what some of you may get but here on the prairies any time it gets into the 30s it is hot and dry and not very comfortable so things like the tomatoes and cucumbers and My peppers there are long ways yet from being ready to harvest so at this time of year in my growing zone, we just enjoy harvesting the cool weather crops such as the romains and spinach and I have some butter crunch lettuce here. I got some arugula that's still at the very baby leaf stage, but I might harvest a bit of it tonight for my salad and I got some kale coming along really good here that I kind of planted up in between my Tomatoes, so we're going to harvest some of that maybe some radishes and some trimmed down some green onions and Put together a really nice salad for tonight so I have been picking a lot of spinach already here and I'm just worried with this heat coming that it's going to Bolt and go to seed so I'm going to try and keep harvesting as long as I can So basically I'm just looking at the leaves here and pinching off the big ones Harvesting them now And as you can see there's a lot of growth little ones coming along here. So that's simply How you do a cutting come again method Just keep pinching off the big ones and let the little ones Fill out in the next few days. You'll have another harvest of spinach ready to go so this here is my romaine lettuce and so you can see I kind of Kind of over seeded a little too heavy on one side of my container or else the seeds kind of got washed around and in the watering process, but There's lots of nice little heads of lettuce forming here and rather than you know Picking the whole head. I just pinch off the big leaves just like the spinach So you can see here on one little plant. There is quite a bunch of leaves So I rather than harvesting the whole head. I will just pinch off The big leaves around the outer edge and just leave leave the plant and let these little guys keep growing You can do that to all these plants and still end up with a good harvest of Lettuce Butter crunch lettuce. It's got some big leaves here again Some beautiful lettuce there. I'm just going to pick and choose different leaves here pinch them off Let them to keep growing. So there we got a really nice bowl full of Romaine spinach butter crunch and I'm just going to add some of my kale and some arugula So the arugula is still pretty small But I'm just going to pick a few of these leaves because I like to have that peppery Taste of the arugula in my salads This is the rocket arugula, I believe I grew this last year Let it go to seed and Harvest all the seeds from it and that's what these are. I Also use those seeds in my indoor growing all winter to grow my indoor Arugula, so I'm hoping this year again. I can keep collecting seeds from the same Plant here and use them again. I'm just amazed at how fast this kale grew I'm sure I only planted it less than two weeks ago here. I Had forgotten to to dedicate a container just to kale. So I Decided just to throw some of the seed right into this container with these tiny Tim's just because I Didn't think it would take up too much space So I'm going to Just break off some of these nice little Leafs and add them to my my greens here And if these get out of control and I just can't keep up with eating them. I can always freeze these Kales great to freeze and add to your smoothies So there you have it. There's a beautiful bowl of Fresh greens from my garden I'm going to use it in a salad tonight for my supper and hopefully have a bit extra that I can store in the fridge to I use up over the next couple days So these are my red and my yellow Globe onions here, and I'm going to just give them a little trim. So if you cut trim down the Tops of your onions that will help the the energy go more into the bulbs and hopefully have a bigger Bulb onion at the end of the season. So I'm just going to trim off a few of these and We'll take them also and wash them and we can chop them up into our salads or use them maybe for our omelettes tomorrow So they're a lot like a green onion. Just chop them up and eat them raw or cook them So all the onions have gotten a bit of a haircut here today And we've got some nice greens here to take in the house and eat up So I also have a small little patch of garlic here that I planted These are bulbs that I planted last fall and I'm just noticing that I do have a couple scapes Forming here and curling on these plants so you can see there's one there once they start to curl over like that, that's when you can harvest them and they are great for cooking and And maybe chopping up a little bit into my salad as well or put into my salad dressing. So they smell amazing So by cutting off these scapes here, you prevent it from going to seed This is where the seeds would form in the in the garlic plant and then it puts more energy into the bulb and By mid-July and July we should have a nice harvest of garlic bulbs So the first thing you want to do is fill your sink with some cool water. I put a little splash of vinegar in here just to Make sure you get it good and clean and there's no little buggies or anything on there Dump her all in Just swish it around let it so far a couple minutes So you can either just lay it out on a towel to dry like I'm gonna do here I probably will spin it in a salad spinner as well So after it's washed you can just lay it out on a towel I just have a paper towel on a drying mat here or you can use towels Probably best if you have a salad spinner to really get all the the water off of this these leaves Especially if you plan on storing these in the fridge you want to make sure that all these leaves are absolutely dry They're so Tender they will wilt very quickly if they have any moisture on them So this batch of spinach is going to go into my spinach feta chicken that I'm planning to make this weekend So I'm just going to after spinning it and getting it good and dry wrap it up in a paper towel like this Store it in a container put it in the fridge and it should stay nice and crisp for the next few days So there is my delicious garden salad all ready to eat It has kale spinach romaine butter crunch a few Pieces of radish. I only had one left and also chopped up a few of my Onion greens and a little bit of my garlic scape. So should be delicious So you can add your favorite dressing at this time, of course I'm just going to give it a very light splash of some extra virgin olive oil Not too much and Also some balsamic vinegar Very simple and of course don't forget some fresh ground pepper So you can just go ahead and eat it like this tonight. I'm going to make this into a real meal and add some tuna salad Which is something that I just had in the fridge today You can add your you know chicken salad egg salad Any kind of protein just to kind of make it into a real hearty meal and Can always add a little bit of paprika. This is some that I Had made from my paprika peppers that I grew this winter and dried and ground into My own paprika spice This is going to be delicious So I hope you enjoyed my video on how to use the cut-and-come-again method on your lettuces to help keep them producing throughout the summer and Also, how you can wash and store your lettuces in the fridge so that you have a good supply of Lettuces for several days to enjoy. I Hope that you will please hit the like button leave a comment and don't forget to stay tuned for the next video coming up on my channel Thanks for watching So good so good