Well good for you! It is exciting picking our own fresh greens. I have to say that my spinach only looks like baby spinach but it is still good. The lettuce keeps coming up and is doing remarkable. When I cut it, it always seems to regrows overnight. I don't know how you are harvesting Broccoli. My broccoli hasn't done too much. ITs only about ten inches high and no signs of any heads forming. MY Kale is growing slowly too. I haven't cut that yet. It is only about seven inches tall. But I am a little further north then you and I think we might be a good week or more behind you.
I wish I could keep the spinach growing. But Hopefully I will be picking the chard when the spinach starts to bolts.

Blake

I guess this has been an unusually good year for cool-season crops, since it's been so darn cold. The heat-loving plants are just sitting out there looking sort of forlorn. Glad someone sees the silver lining, because I've had about enough of the 40's. LOL - DtD

Blake, this is broccoli raab, a.k.a. broccoli rabe, a.k.a. rapini, a.k.a. turnip broccoli, and not actual broccoli. The actual broccoli is huge and leafy and glorious, but no sign of heads yet.

I think I'll probably try chard next year, to round out my options. I certainly intended to plant spinach this year, but I didn't get to it when I intended, and I'm sure it's too late now. I really wish I'd planted some sort of lettuce!

diggingthedirt, yes, the unusually cool Spring hasn't escaped my notice, and I wonder if I'll ever actually see success like this again. It's a big boon for me, though, since I got my cool-weather stuff in a later than I'd intended. I think my tomatoes and squashes are doing OK, though, more or less, and I'm sure their day will come.

For really early crops, you can also overwinter some, like leeks and spinach. They will bolt when warm weather comes, but will give you veggies until then. We are now just finishing our last year's leeks, just in time to put the tomatoes in the ground in this late cold spring.

This year was definitely colder than last when I put in my first small veggie garden. The sugar snap peas germinated but have just been sitting there about 8" tall. I noticed a few blossoms today. Germination of everything else except onions and chives was spotty... unless our resident crows have been disrupting things. Last year we were eating spinach by mid-June. What plants are growing have done some decent growth in the past week. If the lettuce had germinated better I might have had enough thinning for a salad this weekend. I know it's important to get something like spinach in early since it is day length sensitive.
nhbabs, when do you plant your spinach to overwinter?