making way for the summer garden

for about the past week I have been working in the garden for several hours almost every day, getting it into shape for my summer garden....one thing I had to do was make room for the summer veggies by clearing out my spring greens.

this is about half of what I harvested...spinach, radishes, kohlrabi (ony the greens were usable) radishes, and I'm pretty sure 6 cute little heads of cabbage were in there too.

 Even though I didnt get as much as I wanted from ALL that was growing in my garden, I was still pretty pleased with the harvest.

this is JUST the baby bok choy....by far the best producer...unfortunately, due to scheduling, this sat in my fridge for a day or 2 and got quite limp, I tried to revive it with cold water with moderate results. Because of our CRAZY week this week I havent gotten a chance to cook with this yet, probably not for another day or two, so I am praying that it will still be usable by then....I have a recipe for cashew chicken with baby bok choy I am anxious to try.
This reminds me of a lesson Ive learned and releared in my few years of gardening, you can work extremely hard for months and months to cultivate, nurture, and harvest your garden, but if you arent extremely careful with how you store your harvest, it will all be for naught. I need to do more research on how to store my veggies, especially these greens. So far the best way I've found it is wash them, spin them, let them air dry as much as possible, then store them in ziplocks with a paper towel in the bottom to catch excess moisture. my salad greens will store for many weeks like this. I've also recently heard to NOT use metal when harvesting/cutting greens because it will cause it to oxidize and get yucky.

The biggest disappointments were the broccoli (pretty much just sent straight to the compost bin) and the kale and kohlrabi.  The biggest producers were the radishes, spinach, bok choy, swiss chard and lettuce.
I could almost kick myself that I didnt take before and after pictures of my spring to summer garden. Maybe I'll remember next year!