Too pretty to eat and other thoughts/plans

One thing that they don't warn new gardeners about in any of the books at least the ones I read is the internal struggle regarding the harvest because as the
 "Man" recently said about the salad greens is that they are almost too pretty to eat and at times I feel that it all looks too good to harvest. 



There are flowers on one of the pea plants which you can't really make out in these pictures. For some reason the camera didn't want to focus on the peas flowers. 

I think in my next garden planting after all these greens

are eaten and their season is over. I will be planting 3 times as many mustard greens, kale, collards, salad greens, swiss chard, and spinach. I see now were I went amiss in variety. We eat whole meals of greens especially those and so far the greens harvest has only been enough for a side dish or more like a seasoning even though the baskets seem full.

 I think I will also be applying this lesson to future fruit trees. I planted edible flowers, but now I wish I had less nasturtium, sweet alssyum, and other randoms and more things I actually eat a lot of which makes me

think I am cutting down my fruit tree list to only things I am sure the man and I will want to eat and are the easiest to grow like asian pear trees, plum trees, fig trees, and grape vines any other fruit will be done in severe moderation since he and I don't really seem to like to eat a lot of fruit. I'm still taken with the idea of planting pineapple kiwi, but it seems like a lot of work so that may be an even farther in the future endeavor. I would also eventually like to get into citrus or some really exotic fruit trees, but yet again that will also have to wait especially considering how much my mind has changed with new experiences and information and these trees and vines apparently take more work than at this moment I think I am capable up especially with all the moaning I do about watering my ollas and I only do that every other or every third day.

The Manperson made this taco salad eventually with his salad greens. He added soyrizo on top for a hearty vegetarian meal. I almost ate the salad greens for him since he was rationing out theones I saved for him.  Taking out the container everyday and munching on just a few of the salad greens.

Here is my less ornate salad, but still very tasty. Salad greens fresh from the garden do taste better. I also added some fresh mustard green to my salad to give it a bite.

The other issue that comes up is that when the crop is small it seems like too much trouble to bring it in and the temptation to eat it right there is overwhelming. I had three sugar snap peas today. I would have taken a picture but I ate them too quickly. Whoops, my bad. It was a small crop (all of three) and they were kind of small, but very round and not as tasty as I expected, thought the pride of eating something I've grown still makes up for any taste deficiencies. I'm regretting not getting the pea inoculant now. Next year I will go ahead and inoculate. Granted, there could also be something I didn't do. I think it is time to research peas because the plants are also kind of sad right now unlike my brassicas and salad greens.

Lately, my other concern has been the amount of money I have spent and want to spend on the garden. Sadly, money doesn't also grow on trees and I have no plans to sell future harvest. I want my garden to eventually be sustainable and self-sufficient, but bigs plans and ideas are great and all to help push one to do more, but one also has to be realistic and pragmatic about what one can truly handle and accomplish at any given moment in time/life (I'm hoping that is the dregs of the cold I still can't seem to shake or the rain talking, because I know that somewhere inside is the little devil that wants to dream big and accomplish much).