Backyard Aquaponics
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For us new to this, can you guys tell me which plants i should remove whole when i harvest and which plans i should just take the leaves off and let it produce more?

Currently im pulling everything out

I used to pull whole silverbeet out, but then started just taking the leaves they produce heaps more, Spinnach i do the same and leafy lettuce varaities they seem to grow better with a good pruning....

Not sure if you can do the same with celery but i guess i'll find out when i get them growing hahah.

Someone mentioned a while ago that you can cut leeks off at the bottom and they will come again, so I am going to try that

Thats what my mum does with spring onion

really depends a lot on the plant it's hard to go through every plant here, what have you got in your system at the moment? A couple of easy ones, celery, never pull them right out until they are pretty much finished. Same with lettuce...

Really? I usually remove the while lettuce plant. So you just break off the leaves? How would you handle bok choy?

yeah I pull any of the choy's out, but normally just pick off lettuce leaves as required... Did that just today for lunch to go in the sandwiches...

Even Bok Choy can be picked... but eventually it's better to just take the lot...

Brassicas are best removed in one hit... although Broccoli can be encouraged to regrow...

Celery can be picked as required.... same as Silverbeet, egg plant, chillies...

It all depends on the plant... and what you want for tea...

OK, I have been pulling out the whole lettuce, so now I will just take off the leaves. I have been doing that with cellery. Right now I have the hugest cape gooseberry bush growing out of one bed. I'm also growing french crinkled cabbage and its gone crazy.

Cos lettuce is excellent for repeat harvest. Keep pulling leaves until you get a spike in stem growth. That tends to indicate its going to seed and the leaves will be a bit bitter soon.

Baby spinach is another excellent candidate for repeat harvest salads.

Mrs Bullwinkle and I were seeing a lunch salad for two every day, out of a half blue barrel GB, planted with cos and baby spinach last summer.

You get a lot of lettuce out of a small space if you repeat harvest. All that root system already established and all.

Cos lettuce makes for really nice Caesar(sp?) salads and large leaves make really good wraps. Fish or chicken, sweet chilli, grated carrot, ginger etc etc etc wrap them up like a cold roll. .... Hmm an hour and a half before bedtime. Wonder if there is time for one more AP meal?

Home made salsa and cheese with a little red onion, in a cos lettuce wrap as well!

You are sooooo right.

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