Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: DD. on December 31, 2011, 06:09
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Please use this thread from January 1st 2012.
The 2011 thread will be "unstickied" on the same day.
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Picked chard.
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picked a very damp cabbage ::)
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picked my head up off the floor where i left it last night :(
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Two tennis ball size turnips ...er, swedes. No, definitely turnips as thats what we've always called them :D
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picked brussels and cabbage
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First harvest of the new year. January King cabbage, Bright Lights chard and Bleu de Solaise leeks :)
Have a great growing season in 2012 everyone :D
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I picked a Romanesco cauli and a Tundra cabbage from the plot, escarole from the garden greenhouse for tonight :)
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I got a couple of little gem lettuces that had survived!
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Dug the rest of my parsnips to freeze. Harvested a couple of leeks, a nice cabbage and some parsley.
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three celeriac (with a slug eating one! a slug! On 2nd jan!) and a leek to make some soup
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Dug up the last of my parsnips, Christmas spuds and swede today. Oh, and also picked up four compost lids from my plot - do they count! :D
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Early purple sprouting, parsnips, leeks for dinner. And 5 raspberries for me!!!!
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Purple sprouting broccoli, a few leeks and a huge haul of oca :ohmy:
Looking forward to dinner :D
Forgot to mention the butterhead type lettuce from the minitunnel 8)
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Leeks, sprouts, parnsips, carrots.
What I did notice on an adjacent plot was someone with peas 1 foot high in flower! :ohmy:
Strange weather.
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A short row of parsnips... because they were starting to produce new shoots ALREADY!
I wasn't expecting that to happen until end of Feb. Very very odd weather!
And the last of the beetroots got dug up too....
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Leeks, sprouts, parnsips, carrots.
What I did notice on an adjacent plot was someone with peas 1 foot high in flower! :ohmy:
Strange weather.
Yep, next plot has all his raspberries in flower.
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A large Ormskirk cabbage that I shared with my plot neighbour & some parsnips ready for my rib of beef for tomorrows dinner.
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A January King cabbage
Some leeks
Some mustard greens that have survived the winter under a cloche
Some PSB and had to chuck a couple of plants that have bolted already :ohmy:
Some bolted spring cabbage for the chickens - what is going on with the weather this year ::)
...... and the most pathetic crop of turnips I have ever seen, rescued from under another cloche :lol:
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Mooli, baby chard leaves, and mustard leaves for getting back to the health eating this week :blink:
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Sprouts, sprout tops, carrots, leeks, PSB, celery and............................ another swede!
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Potatoes and apples from storage.3 parsnips,3 salsify, 3 scorzonera,5 leeks 4 swedes,3 cabbages,some spinach and sprouts
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Does a handful of parsley from the the pot outside my back door count as a harvest? :D
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and............................ another swede!
:tongue2:
Bet it was pingpong ball sized ;) :lol:
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parsnips, leeks and cabbage.
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and............................ another swede!
:tongue2:
So was not.
Must have been 3" across!
Bet it was pingpong ball sized ;) :lol:
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Dug out the last of the parsnips, which was quite a task in frozen ground. Also harvested 5 leeks and a nice cabbage. Picked some of the Austrian winter radish I had growing. Hmm. might not bother with these again, as pathetic as my normal radishes.
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Some curly kale and after a lot of searching. huffing and puffing some parsnips – I was certain I knew where they were!!
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Parsnips and beetroot to go with roast tomorrow, lettuce from the mintunnel and some beetroot to give to my friend who has had an op. on her foot and so is stuck indoors right now
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Carrots, couple of swedes and a sprout top
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Leeks and spring onions
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Greens today - chard and mustard greens :)
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4 leeks, bag of sprouts,4 salsify,4 scorzonera,4 cabbages,4 parsnips and a bag of spinach
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Baby chard leaves, baby lettuce leaves, beetroot leaves, corn salad and mooli.
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Found two more potato plants and a few more parsnips - I thought I had got everything!
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One ginormous parsnip, beetroot, carrots (almost perfect too) sprouts, and a tubful of bright red oca :D :D
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Half a dozen small parsnips :D
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Pulled up the rest of the parnsips!
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Picked 4x Leaks, 2x cabbage and also 2 Cauliflowers :tongue2: Love cauliflower cheese
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I picked me nose
:tongue2:
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As a member of 8 months standing, I would have hoped your second ever post would have been more worthy.
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Sorry DD but it did make me laugh :lol:
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HI dd
lighten up and have a laugh.....
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HI dd
lighten up and have a laugh.....
:nowink:
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3 posts and your heading for the naughty step already J_B ::)
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Promises ! Promises! Aunty Sally
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So far this year, not a lot. My "winter" lettuce does not seem to be doing too well.... had a very small handful of mixed leaves last week and that's wiped out three or four sowings! The only success in the household is continued sowings of cress seeds in egg shells by our girls!
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Large Ormskirk Cabbage enough to share with my friends who I shall see later this evening.
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Leeks, swede, purple sprouting broccolli ( thats been cropping since september), parsnips and a romanesco that appears to still be edible hooray !!
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carrots, leeks and purple sprouting broccoli.
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5 Scorzonera ,5 Salsify ,5 leeks, Bag of sprouts 4 Cabbage and a bag of spinach.
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In view of the weather forecast for the next few days at least, dug out some leeks, parsnips, and carrots (seem to be fresh out of dynamite!)
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Its leeks brussels and carrots for me!! plus a few stored onions.
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One nice big Romanesco :)
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4 leeks,3 cabbage and a bag of sprouts
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A quick trip to the lottie today yielded 2lb of leeks.
Leek & Tattie soup here we come :tongue2:
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Leeks, broccoli, holland winter white cabbage, chard bright lights. But its hard to see what else will come in this weather.
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spouts and 2 cabbage
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A couple of handfuls of Spring Onions to go with salad for tea
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Leeks.
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Leeks.
who/what?
:lol:
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Leeks to eat. Still got about 20 in the ground.
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2 cabbages,1st time to the plot after work this year :D :D It really is getting lighter.
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A load of small carrots from the polytunnel, which have been in there over winter. I feel some soupmaking coming on. Tunnel now empty and ready for spring cleaning.
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Quite a few leeks, a cabbage, a rather small red cabbage, some red celery and probably the last of the cavolo nero.
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A salad for tomorrow's lunch. Chard, beetroot leaves and lamb's lettuce.
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Leeks, carrots and parsnips for dinner
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Sprouts, cabbage, PSB, WSB, leeks, carrots, parsnips, swede, spring onions & fresh mint to go with the lamb.
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10 lovely big parsnips I did not know I had when I dug the row over. :D
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:( Last two small savoy cabbages, that the all the veg gone now apart from the spuds at home in the shed - roll on summer!!
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Bag of sprouts,3 cabbage 6 leeks and 3 parsnips
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A little late but yesterday's haul:
Couple of beetroot
Bunch of Spring Onions
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Leeks
(and still a few to go at)
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Leeks, parsnips and Jerusalem artichokes
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Leeks , plus a cabbage for us that had formed a head and one for the chickens that was a bit blown and hadn't formed a head. We're all happy, its all good :)
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Yesterday: Autumn King carrots, Gladiator parsnip, Harston leeks ( about a doz left ) and Ragged Jack kale ( excellent at this time of year ).
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Finished harvesting all the sprouts,5 leeks and 3 cabbage.
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Radichio, spring onions, lambs lettuce, baby chard and beetroot leaves from the poly tunnel.
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From the polycarb g/house I picked some Seeds of Italy mixed salad leaves, some Parcel, the last of the corn salad and some rocket (it is very peppery now, so I don't want a lot! ::))
The Tokyo bunching onions still growing outside with no protection so picked some of them as well :)
guess it's salad for lunch :D
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Not the first harvest of 2012, but the one I always think of as the first of the new growing season:
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I can just smell it stewing now!
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Big handful of mixed salad leaves from the greenhouse at home :D
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Kale, PSB, last of the leeks and carrots. All for Sunday lunch
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enough leeks to feed an army - happens every year that i only get round to harvesting them at his time of year!!
They were fine too - not woody in the middle.
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salad stuff from the greenhouse ;)
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The last of the parsnips and a few sticks of rhubarb. I love the smell of stewed rhuabarb. :)
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Last of the parsnips & a few sprouts that took me by surprise. I didn't think they were going to be worth picking but then I saw some might just make it to the pan,they were delicious.
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Kale & chard, green mustard and rocket, rhubarb only about 6 inches, so will wait a week or two methinks!
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Three big leeks to use in today's tea. :) The mushroom kit is producing now too, but I'm not sure it really counts... ::)
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Lots os small carrots that someone at school sowed far too late really at the end of last season, plus loads of psb, which some children ate raw :D
and one parsnip
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planted Purplr Sprouting Broccoli under net last May, just noticed they are coming out now.
picked 3 sprouts, boilded for 4 minutes, bit of salt & olive oil. nice!
expecting more sprouts for next 4-6 weeks
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First spring cabbage of the new season.
Mmmmmm....
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One parsnip. It had escaped harvest when I picked the others, and I found it when digging over the bed.
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I found a couple of spuds left over from the last person to have the plot them and some nettle tops is a free soup for my tea
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i picked a carrier bag of perpetual spinach, which has provided greens all winter, and spring :)
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Sadly, I picked the last of the Kale (Nero de Toscana).
It's going to seed now.
My favorite green which I grow every year
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Four leeks and five parsnips
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The first of the new season asparagus :D Only a few spears so far but looking forward to tea tonight ;)
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A dozen psb spears at last
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Took out about 4lb of rhubarb and made a coupe of rhubarb crumbles
3 over wintered cabbages, 5 leeks and a dozen spring onions.
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A small amount of asparagus: first crop from our new bed :D :D :D
and a huge bag of curly kale too
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some spinich yesterday added to sunday dinner :)
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picked leeks - delicious :D
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Just popped down to pick up some purple sprouting brocolli it's still pumping out new shoots every few days. Waiting to use the bed for new crops though.
Cheers HH
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Lettuce and spinach from last winter. :)
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Romano potatoes (I leave them in the ground and lift as required). Parsnips and stored onions
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More asparagus, seakale, some overwintering onions picked as giant spring onions, chard, rhubarb :)
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A carrier bag full of PSb, and 5 leeks
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My first ever harvest from our allotment today.
10 sticks of rhubarb. It felt fantastic :)
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My first ever harvest from our allotment today.
10 sticks of rhubarb. It felt fantastic :)
It gets better and better!! Well Done! :)
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Rhubarb (several pounds worth if supermarket prices are anything to go by :lol: )
a juicy winter cabbage head :)
and about half a pound of carrots still lurking in the ground
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Approx 350 litres rainwater from the 31.8 mm that fell on the conservatory roof today.
The water butt and half a dozen other containers are now all brim full. :)
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a cos lettuce from the greenhouse :)
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Today I brought back chickweed, red dead nettles and young nettle tops from my allotment. Going to knock up some vegetable samosas with these in them later.
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A carrier bag of psb and 4 cabbages
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As a new boy to this site please explain PSb ?
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As a new boy to this site please explain PSb ?
Purple sprouting brocolli :)
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Still picking purple srouting broccoli.
Hopefully will have a seaon's worth of PsB this year!
Emma
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picked the first of my PSB - was a bit late with it to be honest!
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More leeks, needed for tea today. Still have about a dozen left. Wild garlic too. :)
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Yesterday I picked the last kale of the year down the allotment and my first chilli of the year at home
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Leeks,rhubarb and the last of our parsnips.
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Leeks, our last veg from last year. Made bubble and squeak except with leeks and sausages. Yum.
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More purple srouting broccoli!
It's just about over now - starting to sprout into pretty yellow flowers.
Why yellow when they start purple??? ???
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More purple srouting broccoli!
It's just about over now - starting to sprout into pretty yellow flowers.
Why yellow when they start purple??? ???
they are yellow because they are going to seed - its supposed to be picked before this happens ;)
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More purple srouting broccoli!
It's just about over now - starting to sprout into pretty yellow flowers.
Why yellow when they start purple??? ???
they are yellow because they are going to seed - its supposed to be picked before this happens ;)
I know they are going over to seed but WHY yellow??? Of all colours I'd have thought the flowers should be pink or lilac since it's PURPLE sprouting! That seems right to my mind :D
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Radish :)
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More purple srouting broccoli!
It's just about over now - starting to sprout into pretty yellow flowers.
Why yellow when they start purple??? ???
they are yellow because they are going to seed - its supposed to be picked before this happens ;)
I know they are going over to seed but WHY yellow??? Of all colours I'd have thought the flowers should be pink or lilac since it's PURPLE sprouting! That seems right to my mind :D
Its an interesting questions as you would think the colour what remain the same, but wouldn't that mean that say Apple blossom should be red? As that is the colour the buds first display on my tree. Also the Brassica family mainly have yellow flowers, cabbage and Kale for certain. I always leave one plant to go to seed, but then forget what I have done with the seeds and have to buy some more - I really should be more organised.
Have you tried Purple Broccoli with tomato and chilli dipping sauce - with a light sprinkle of Parmesan? mmm
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PSB, leeks and the first rhubarb of the season
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Last of my cabbage
Nothing left to harvest now !
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PSB, last of the leeks, mint and the first crop of parsley this year. I can't believe one of my strawberry plants has flowers on it! It is in a very sheltered spot in front of the greenhouse, but still....
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Radish :)
Bless you!!
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Bag of psb and 4 stalks of my first rhubarb
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picked snails out of the seed trays now dancing on there slimy graves >:(
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Spring Onions, a couple of cauli and some rhubarb.
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Just popped to the plot before it rains - again.
Carrots, parsnips, leek & fresh mint.
PLUS 40 sticks of rhubarb - that's now 160 sticks off the one clump & still going strong! :ohmy:
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I pulled some rhubarb yesterday, not sure how many sticks, possibly between ten and twenty. Had rhubarb crumble and it was delicious, very tender and sweet.
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Loads more PSB, beetroot, lettuces, bunches of mint, parsley and chives. The first radishes of the year.
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First radish of the year yesterday.... yes, that's right... radish (not radishes)!
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Harvested first lettuce of the year grown under a cloche plus loads of rhubarb.
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Tin bucket (with no bottom)
pair of shoes
document wallet (2 of)
metal downpipe
bracing plate (complete with bolts)
childs drum kit cymbal
in ordinate amount of big stones
(yes I really did find all of these items!)
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Tin bucket (with no bottom)
pair of shoes
document wallet (2 of)
metal downpipe
bracing plate (complete with bolts)
childs drum kit cymbal
in ordinate amount of big stones
(yes I really did find all of these items!)
oh and a black morel so it wasn't all bad...
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I picked about 25 radish yesterday.
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Chives, parsley and mint :)
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Spinach, rocket, lettuce, chives and radishes - made a lovely salad for me and the wife with a bit of left over chicken.
Same again tomorrow
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PSB, Spring Onions Rhubarb and a Cauli
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Leeks which are still going strong.
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Carrier bag of psb, 10 sticks of rhubarb
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Just a bag of rhubarb and about a lb of mud.
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1 asparagus spear ::)
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Last of my leeks as I dug over the bed I plan to use for sweetcorn
Cheers HH
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Um...
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And the photo is a bit deceiving, that half a tub full. Going to have to start giving it away already!
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my lotty nieghbours psb(permission of course).and stared longingly at my 2nd season asparagoose. :)
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Nice crop of radishes (which I would have photographed but my Mum ate half of them before I got the chance), baby cos lettuce and PSB. Oh and hubby made a lovely rhubarb crumble from our first harvest too!
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Rhubarb, my first harvest of 2012. :)
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65 sticks of rhubarb harvested, that makes 200 sticks since the 22nd.
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Gathered rhubarb,leeks and lettuce from under cloche.
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Tin bucket (with no bottom)
pair of shoes
document wallet (2 of)
metal downpipe
bracing plate (complete with bolts)
childs drum kit cymbal
in ordinate amount of big stones
(yes I really did find all of these items!)
I shouldn't chuckle but this made me laugh
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Finally some PSB, from the plot I gave up in Dec,nobody has taken it on yet & I have been watching it start to go over. Whilst there I saw loads of my carrots so pulled them as well. It would have been a waste not too.
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Another 50 sticks of rhubarb :lol: be swimming in the stuff soon.
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Radishes and leek :).
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Rhubard, leaf beet and some red celery that has overwintered!
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Rhubarb, overwintered onions pulled as giant spring onions, chard and just going to get the few spears of asparagus I have spotted in the raised beds outside :)
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Few sticks of rhubarb, cleared last years chard, plus radishes, purple sprouting broccolli, beetroot and herbs.
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Didn't pick anything today, but when I went to the supermarket I noticed that rhubarb is currently £7.98 a kilo!!!!! So yesterday's smallish portion is worth just over a fiver.
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Popped over to harvest some mixed salad leaves, parsley, mint, chives and welsh onions for a salad.
I made a salmon and broccoli quiche with the small psb that I harvested yesterday and we had a lovely salad with minted new potatoes.
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Harvested Rhubarb,lettuce,leeks and a few spears of asparagus.
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Two more caulis --- one was small bu the other one a decent size at six inches across
(Decent for me as I have never had any success with caulis previously - wrong varieties at the wrong time :lol:)
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A carrier bag full of psb(and boatloads still to harvest).
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Went to the plot today, first time in a week, due to rain day after day. There were five cauliflower showing and ready for cutting. Has anyone grown Jerome cauliflower? They are enormous and so heavy that I could only manage to bring one home on my bicycle. I left the other four in the shed ( hope the mice don't have a party) How on earth will I get through five enormous cauliflowers? I'm starting to worry about the size of my ears!
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There are very few eatable crops at the allotment yet.
However, the builder with the corner plot has 4 superb cauliflowers which
are just about to go over. The curds are attracting slugs each night and the
leaves are feeding a large number of snails. I have picked off over 70 slugs
and snails as I leave the allotment each night.
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Popped to the plot to grab some flat leaf parsley to go in the mozzarella & courgette muffins I was making.
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Red Russian kales
Broad bean tops
Winter cabbage
Rhubarb
Lettuce
SPB
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Harvested 9 asparagus spears and a lettuce from under a cloche.
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Spinach, chard, lettuce and rhubarb today.
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1 Radish so far...im new to all this :D
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Another bag of psb
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Picked up a bunch of asparagus from the plot yesterday and had with hollandaise sauce.
really fantasic if a few calories! :tongue2:
Cheers HH
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Nice fat over-wintered spring onions. :)
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Some lovely mixed salad leaves from the GH - they added lots of spice to the shop bought salad veggies. :)
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Another 130 sticks of rhubarb. Anyone want some?! :lol:
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Hispi cabbage, rhubarb and a handful of mint today.
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One radish :lol:
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Where in Kent are you Schubunny? I moved my rhubarb this year and have had hardly any. Not looking too good for any more either :(
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A palm full of little broad beans from overwintered plants, some rhubarb and a big overwintered lettuce.
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A big pile of Rhubarb and some lettuce
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Just dug up about a pound of spuds - pretty good, eh? :)
(Actually, no, they were all volunteers from last year growing up amongst my shallots and Swiss chard!) :(
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Chard (from last year's plants) and some PSB - pretty much the last I'll get I think.
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Lettuce and cress for a side salad with tea. Tastes so much better than the shop bought stuff we have been having over winter. Looks like first earlies wont be long either. :)
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Salad leaves from large Trug/trough (renown again immediately)
Lovely Cherry Belle radish
Three baby courgettes from plants hardening off in greenhouse :D can you believe it?
Pes shoots to go with salad leaves for tea
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Harvested lettuce leaves, rocket leaves and cherry belle radish. My first crop of the year and tasted so good.
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Frilly lettuce, spring onions, radish, another greenhouse courgette. Yum,yum
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Frilly lettuce, spring onions, radish, another greenhouse courgette. Yum,yum
The same here but without the radish - but had some rocket as well ;)
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This is for yesterday...
80 sticks fo rhubarb, 10 radishes and a bowlfull of rocket (the rocket was originally grown for the rabbits but, erm, we nicked it :lol: they can have grass, dandelions and plantain instead)
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Yet another haul of salad stuff with a few pea shoots to add a different slant.
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rhubarb.... blooming stuff getting fed up of it now lol
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Just frozen 40 sticks of rhubarb. Chopped, washed, in a plassy bag and tied.
At supermarket prices of £2 for three sticks that about 26 quids worth. ::)
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First picking of broad beans today and some salad leaves from the garden.
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A handful of Strawberries, the first of the year :D And a dozen Scotch Bonnett and Monkey Face Chillies from indoors :)
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Salad leaves, radish, lots of herbs and the first garlic of the year (courtesy of the chickens! >:()
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Where in Kent are you Schubunny? I moved my rhubarb this year and have had hardly any. Not looking too good for any more either :(
Sorry Yana I missed your post. I'm NW Kent. I fed it with lots of rabbit manure last autumn and it seems to be really enjoying it.
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Without wanting to have TMI schubunny, do you separate the rabbit manure out. I ask because I have two rabbits but read somewhere that you shouldn't put wood shavings into a compost heap or use as a mulch as it draws the water out of the soil instead of locking it in so I would have to separate the pellets and the shavings.
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I have pods coming on my peas!! :D
Without wanting to have TMI schubunny, do you separate the rabbit manure out. I ask because I have two rabbits but read somewhere that you shouldn't put wood shavings into a compost heap or use as a mulch as it draws the water out of the soil instead of locking it in so I would have to separate the pellets and the shavings.
I don't actually use wood shavings, I found they were not very absorbant and also there is some thought that they are not good for rabbit respiratory systems, even dust extracted ones.
I use whole newspapers and a load of hay in their litter trays (changed every other day) and then empty the whole lot out into the compost and remove the newspaper as it takes longer to break down. The disadvantage of using it all is that you have to compost it down to remove the hay seeds but rabbits apparently can do up to 500 poos a day and with four that's 2000!! I love my plants but not that much! :lol:
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Just cut the last Walcheren Winter Pilgrim cauliflower last night. Only three weeks ago it didn`t look like there would be any heads, then over the last ten days we`ve cut fifteen. As well as eating it cooked in the evenings, I`ve been taking raw cauliflower to eat at work for the past week and getting some peculiar looks!
Also yesterday the last of the finger thickness leeks which haven`t gone to seed, and I note with envy that my neighbour has planted some out which are almost as big.
The first strawberries have been harvested by the local blackbird as my new 7 metre by 6 metre net from ebay only arrived yesterday. I hope he enjoyed those as he won`t be getting any more!
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Dug first early potatoes today, Rocket which were planted under fleece 12 weeks ago they are a nice size, one root was more than enough for one meal OH and me, hate to say we could do with some rain as the soil is bone dry around potato roots.
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The first strawberry of the season and some lovely lettuce.
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A handful of broad beans, salad leaves, radishes, and spring onions to go with tonight's dinner.
A Patty Pan courgette and a normal courgette (defender) that will be roasted with (almost) the last of the butternut squash from last year.
Pea pods are gradually filling out :D
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A handful of broad beans, salad leaves, radishes, and spring onions to go with tonight's dinner.
A Patty Pan courgette and a normal courgette (defender) that will be roasted with (almost) the last of the butternut squash from last year.
Pea pods are gradually filling out :D
courgettes already?!
I must be way behing as mine have only just come through!!!
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Dug two roots of Rocket potatoes and despite all the rain in last 18 hours the soil around the roots was bone dry.
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Don't panic gazza, these have been in the greenhouse waiting to be hardened off to go to lottie. Couldnt believe it when I saw them myself :nowink:
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Will be emptying a bucket of Extra early Lady Christl later. And hopefully we will have enough for a meal.
Spelling of "Christl" edited for search purposes.
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Pakchoi grown in greenhouse and a few straws from the lottie.
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Overwintered red celery still going strong and not bolted yet, plus some leaf beet.
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More garlic courtesy of the chickens....got the mesh off the pot again! >:(
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Picked a handful of strawberries (the first this year) and pulled some rhubarb.
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First Strawberry - nothing tastes better! :)
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Four strawberries, and bunch of red spring onions, some rhubarb and six white autumn onion that had gone to seed: decent sized bulbs though
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A strawberry! And it tasted sooo much nicer knowing that I had deprived that pesky blackbird! :D Taking the rest up to Mum's tomorrow to hang in the greenhouse. :)
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Today Florrie nice-but-dim got herself into the veg cage and she has harvested for me....
Peas, broad beans, radish, chard,lettuce and beetroot. >:(
So re-seeding of some will have to take place. At least I have space for tomatoes and squash now! ::)
She said she has done the weeding while she was stuck in there!
Can't stay mad with her for long, she was so pleased with herself. :)
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4 strawberries,not much but its a start
Hopefully 100's yet to come.
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Harvested
Rocket potatoes, Little gem Lettuce, Strawberries,Asparagus and rhubarb.
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Picked some strawberries and some herbs today as I dodged the high winds.
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Had to dig potatoes and pick broad beans in the rain today otherwise dinner would have been limited tonight.
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Didn't venture up the lottie so had to make do with what was to hand in the raised beds and greenhouse in the garden. Loads of salad leaves, radish, spring onion, a few very baby carrots and courgettes from the greenhouse.
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First strawberries and Mangetout today - ove both of these so am happy today!!
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Chard, carrots, broad beans, lettuce and herbs.
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A Hispi cabbage, and salad leaves, rocket and radishes. The 4 strawberries I picked didn't make it home, couldn't resist eating them :lol:
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Rocket potatoes,lettuce, broad beans,asparagus and strawberries. :D
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Land cress, a few leaves, radish and some herbs. Everything is sulking.
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Courgette, radish, salad leaves, baby carrots and peas :D
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3 tiny strawberries (the first of the season) and 1 teeny radish :D
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First earlies (a bit small) but my second earlies are flowering now so thought i would lift them as I wanted the space. Lettuce and my first two radish. Happy days.
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First proper results yesterday - about a dozen good-sized radishes and a large handful of mixed spicy salad leaves. And some mint for mint tea.
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A goodly handful of spinach, which was a bit of a surprise as I thought I had planted beetroot. That'll teach me to put the white seed packets bag in the correct outer packets,
What an idiot :wub:
Salad leaves, rocket, mint and the last knockings of last years parsley.
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Been slim pickings for a few weeks except for rhubarb, so very pleased to come back today from the plot with new potatoes (small but hey ho), mangetouts, a green garlic bulb, broad beans and some garlic scrapes :)
Going to investigate the garden in a minute as I think I have some baby turnips ready as well and I'm sure I spotted a ripe strawberry earlier :)
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I pulled up some garlic because it had died back only to find it has whaite basal rot of some kind, so don't know if it will dry and store - fingers crossed.
I also picked a handful of sugarsnap peas and some spinach :)
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6 strawberries from the earlies in the greenhouse
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Second harvest of globe artichokes from the same plant.
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small early potatoes, a couple of strawberries, broad beans and salad.
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Parsley, tarragon and chives. Salad can take it's chances, don't fancy any! :(
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Yesterday, I harvest some strawberries, salad leaves, radish and hispi cabbage.
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Picked broad beans enough for a meal and 1.5 kilo for freezer.
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Picked broad beans enough for a meal and 1.5 kilo for freezer.
Yum!
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Harvested some onions which are now drying in the greenhouse, the first courgettes, strawberries, broad beans, lettuce and herbs.
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Broad beans, peas, strawbs, kale, lettuce,salad leaves, spring onions and patty pan courgette
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2lb of strawbs ,lettuce and rhubarb
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2 greyhound cabbages to go with Sunday dinner, a load of spinach for tomorrows salmon, a hand full of strawberries the slugs and lack of sun are causing havoc this year.
Gave away 2 carrier bags full of lettuce, spring onions, radish and rocket, weather just been that c.r.a.p we haven't had salad as often as we would normally damn gulfstream!!
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A few carrots and a lovely plot neighbour gave me some rhubarb in exchange for some plot related advice.
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Three strawberries and three radishes.
The strawberries were wonderful, very big and juicy and sweet. And all gone :D
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Strawberries and strawberries and strawberries..... beautiful flavour and pleased to have so many to share.
Add to this a bag of baby-leaf spinach and that's it.
Much better than nothing but.....I really am trying to be patient :blink:
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It was our first harvest yesterday!!!! A cucumber which was really yummy and a few small potatoes. Not much but a sense of achievement after all this bad weather
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Mangetout and lettuces. My strawbs are all still green but looking to be a bumper crop this year!
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All these posts make me realise how very behind I am! :(
Some spicy salad leaves, radish and herbs. Not much but tasty.
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Harvested strawberries, rhubarb and some small homeguard potatoes.
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More peas, more broad beans, three small courgettes, carrots and salad leaves.
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Couldn't resist some nice fresh garlic for garlic bread. It's the chooks' fault, they dug some up one day so I got the taste for it! :lol: The dried up things in the supermarket just aren't the same!
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OH picked/dressed and froze 3.7K of gooseberries from a bush we bought three years ago and had almost given up hope with. Once again patience paid off.
Also put 2K of broad beans in freezer in addition to those have eaten, unfortunately the birds,Jackdaws we think are attacking broad beans and most of the plots around us ripping the pods apart and making a terrible mess
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How do you freeze your broad beans? Do you Blanche them at all? I seem to be accumulating them and would like to freeze them but have never done this before.
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Mange tout, broad beans, over wintered onions, carrots, beetroot and spring onion :D
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Give home guard spuds (decent size), two French beans and cut some cut and come again lettuce
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Harvested a dozen good sized Marfona 2nd early's. Really tasty. :)
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How do you freeze your broad beans? Do you Blanche them at all? I seem to be accumulating them and would like to freeze them but have never done this before.
[OH has never blanched broad beans but does not keep them frozen too long all used well before Christmas /quote]
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Broadbeans - 1st lot this year.
Delicious!! :)
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Harvested salad leaves, spring onions and radish, also strawberries for T! Yum, yum!!! :D
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Today was my first ever harvest! Some curly kale leaves which I've just fried up in a bit of butter and salt and it was lovely.
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strawberries, rhubarb, spinach, lettuce, broadbeans, and pulled a garlic as needed to to make some baby food
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Salad leaves,radishes, lettuce, broad beans, peas and strawbs.
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Strawberries, rhubarb and lettuce
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Today was my first ever harvest! Some curly kale leaves which I've just fried up in a bit of butter and salt and it was lovely.
I can remember it well.... 1st harvest! A real buzz.
Good for you... I bet it tasted out of this world. :)
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About four strawberries and one radish which was woody, thought it would be, it had bolted. Somehow I'd missed it by the path.
I also lifted one row of garlic. The oddest thing is two rows of garlic, same type, same company, same place, treated exactly the same. One is doing well, apart from some rust, and is a bit of a way from lifting. The other seems stunted, it hasn't formed as many leaves and has cloves but not enough leaves to protect the cloves for storing. Almost the entire row was the same apart from a few at one end. It's in the garage tonight while I work out what to do with it. Is there any other way of storing garlic for a few months?
Oh and we 'tested' the peas. :D not enough for dinner yet but enough for us to have one pod each. :D
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I nearly added a fox to the harvest tonight!
I nipped over to the Little Pink Bungalow's veg patch as I'd forgotten to put away a trowel and caught a glimpse of a fast moving shadowy figure running from the compost heap and bounding away into nextdoor's woodland jungle.
Isn't nature a wonderful thing?
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How do you freeze your broad beans? Do you Blanche them at all? I seem to be accumulating them and would like to freeze them but have never done this before
It is always best to Blanche. It kills bacteria, preserves colour and flavour and stops nutrients being lost whilst frozen.
Bring a pan of water to the boil, add the shelled beans, bring back to boiling and boil for three mins. Drain the beans and plunge into cold water. When the beans are cold, drain in a sieve, you need to get as much water out as possible, I use a salad spinner, or you could just pat them in a clean tea towel. Bag up and freeze.
Hope this is helpful, it takes a bit of time but well worth the effort
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Woo hoo!!! 5 raspberries... promptly eaten ;)
Oh... and a lettuce, because it is the middle of my climbing peas, and was in danger of being overshadowed!
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Harvested some Homeguard potatoes, rhubarb, strawberries, carrots and garlic.
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Loads of Strawberries - have to pick them 'coz the slugs are active. Broadbeans & cabbage. Also dug up the first of the garlic - good hefty bulbs looks like its going to be a bumper crop this year.
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A cabbage for tea tommorow, along with my first new potatoes of the season. Half a bag full of mangetout and a punnet full of strawberries.
Not bad considering the god awful weather!!
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Two strawberries and some mangetout, promptly munched! :tongue2:
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1 pod pea - just to check whether they were ready to harvest (they weren't, i think they have around another week) - i still ate the little peas though :lol:
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Vanessa potatoes (lovely pink skins) red spring onions, gooseberries, strawberries, a handful of black currants and a few raspberries, some french beans and some broad beans too :D
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Enough peas for dinner, a large handful of strawberries, some radishes and a few small lettuces that I thinned out.
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Big harvesting day today:
- Winter onions cleared - three plastic trugs' worth
- Shallots also cleared - one plastic trugs' worth
- Half garlic bed cleared - approximately 20 bulbs
- globe artichokes
- 3 courgettes
- broad beans
- 1.5kilos of strawberries
- fennel, oregano, parsley and thyme
- 1 red and 1 green lettuce
- carrots for sunday lunch
- first harvest of summer psb
Conservatory now stinks of onion and garlic!
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Today's harvest:
5 red onions (replanted so the squirrels can pull them up again tomorrow)
1 polystyrene take-away box in pieces (dumped by the foxes)
12 snails (squished!)
Not the best of seasons…..but it may get warmer. :unsure:
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First of the season's taters, poor show and waterlogged pots. Will leave the rest and hope for better weather. :(
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First of the season's taters, poor show and waterlogged pots. Will leave the rest and hope for better weather. :(
I have a feeling mine are going to be the same if there's any left after the slugs have shown an interest.
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just picked a couple of lettuces. Thought it best to have them before the slugs finished them off! Tempted by asparagus but decided to let them grew on now and recover from this cold wet season.
cheers HH
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Over the weekend....
our first strawberry (yes, strawberry, singular!)
a handful of radishes
a collander full of various salad leaves (rocket, red sorrell, red salad bowl lettuce, mizuna)
our first carrot (yes, carrot singular!)
a big handful of mint
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1 punnet strawberries, promptly eaten by Seb (off school with poorly tum!!). 1 punnet of black currents, some broad beans, a lettuce for tea and a punnet of gooseberry thinnings. Oh yes, and some sage leaves to dry.
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4 strawberry's, 8 spring onions and some rhubarb from my neighbour!!!
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one 4 inch long courgette!
my first this year!
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Carrots, some of which Ive left the tops on as my two incredibly spoilt house bunnies lures them.
Radish, spring onions (not that great though), peas, broad beans and the second Picolino cuke. Cuke didnt get as far as the kitchen as munched it whilst walking back to the house.
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Carrots, some of which Ive left the tops on as my two incredibly spoilt house bunnies lures them.
Radish, spring onions (not that great though), peas, broad beans and the second Picolino cuke. Cuke didnt get as far as the kitchen as munched it whilst walking back to the house.
I find carrot tops last well for a few days in the fridge in an airtight bag. ;) I tend to pull some carrots, cut the tops off, give my four some and then save some in the fridge for the next couple of days.
At the moment though my carrots are WAY behind were they were last year after my first sowing got seen off by slugs. Be some time before we have any carrots!!
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About 3lb of strawberries,lettuce and broad beans
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Dug up some garlic, picked sugar snap peas and some lettuce. Strawberries didn't make it home :lol:
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Garlic, herbs, salad leaves, radish and raspberries.
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Some more garlic scapes which weren't there when the last lot were out and some spinach. :)
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Yesterday had my first lettuce, strawberries, and I'm very pleased to say my first cucumber which didn't make OH burp ;) Got enough strawberries for 2 people for 3 days -yay.
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We had the offer of a helping paw to pick the strawberries in my parents little strawberry pot but I had got there first! :tongue2:
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Mangetout, 6 spring onions, 1 red and 1 green lettuse, baby spinach, broad beans and....(drum roll) my first new potatoes EVER! Never grown them before, and the last couple of weeks have been dreadful, trying to patiently wait until they're ready! Got just under 2 dozen from 2 plants, is that about right?
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Leaves and radish, chives, mini carrots and a few peas.
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....(drum roll) my first new potatoes EVER! Never grown them before, and the last couple of weeks have been dreadful, trying to patiently wait until they're ready! Got just under 2 dozen from 2 plants, is that about right?
That depends to a degree on what variety they are, but quite a lot on when you planted the seed potatoes and what you planted them in?
Regardless, well done its a great feeling isn't it? :D
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First tomato (golden cherry) of the year, just the one mind. :happy:
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First tomato (golden cherry) of the year, just the one mind. :happy:
Show off! :lol:
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Some gartenperle tomatoes, a couple of onions and the first of the Alderman peas, they never made it home ;)
Garlic Rosemary and oregano to go in my dinner tonight.
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The first pea I have ever grown. Actually, it was more like a mange tout and approx 2 cms long but I was so surprised to see it there I had to grab it before the slugs and snails did! ::)
My globe artichokes are doing particularly well this year, I've had 5 heads so far. I notice it's the third year and for some reason, every perennial anything always performs fantastically in its third year. Why is that I wonder? Just reaching maturity?
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first raspberries - yum :D
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First lot of Broad Beans and New Potatoes - With some bacon just made a very tasty supper :)
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first raspberries - yum :D
Raspberries already! Well done you. I think I read that one or two other people had picked a few. Mine are still rock hard and greenish. So much for living in the sounny south. ::)
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I harvested the first of my new potatoes and some rhubarb - Had the new potatoes with a bbq lastnight, and made the rhubard into rhubard and crumble ice cream for dessert :yum:
It is the first harvest we have had from the allotment since we got it so were very pleased :)
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A couple of broad beans to see if they were ready (they were!). :tongue2:
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I harvested the first of my new potatoes and some rhubarb - Had the new potatoes with a bbq lastnight, and made the rhubard into rhubard and crumble ice cream for dessert :yum:
It is the first harvest we have had from the allotment since we got it so were very pleased :)
Brilliant Green Thumb. It's a great feeling isn't it.... to eat something you've grown yourself. Tastes better too. ;)
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More spinach. :)
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4 little gems - 2 for us and 2 for the neighbours
a hand full of mizuna leafs
a hand full of beetroot leafs
and a hand full of pea shoots
all of which contributed to the salad that i had for tea!
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Spring onions (but not that wonderful), salad leaves, raspberries (just made it to the kitchen) and peas (that didn't). :D
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Just called at the plot to pick a small cauliflower to have a teatime. It's the first time I've grown them, so pleased. It tasted wonderful
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First harvest, a dozen raspberries enjoyed so much by my daughter on return from school no one else got a taste.
Oh well more are on the way :)
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some garlic and shallots- 12 shallots out of 1 bulb and all a good size and a handfullof peas and strawberries
dmg
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Mange tout, spring onions and the last of the broad beans.
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Lettuces, peas, mange tout, broad beans, new potatoes, carrots, beetroot, kohl rabi, green garlic, shallots, chervil, strawberries
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Couple of large handfulls of peas and a large box of strawberries.
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New potatoes, carrots, spinach and tarragon. Pot roast chicken exceelent
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Red onions, Autumn planted onions, spring planted onions that are bolting, Gooseberries, Mint and Sage
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Strawberries (loads) , raspberries & blackberries (just a few), beetroot, new potatoes and sweet-peas.
Broadbeans waiting to be picked.
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loads of strawberries, broad beans, lettuce,blueberries and new potatoes
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More strawberries, 2 cauliflowers, some carrots and enough new potatoes for the weekend meals. Also dug up the remaining garlic.
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More lettuce, mizuna, baby spinach, lovely little lunchbox-size cucumber and some disappointing new potatoes. Don't think I'll bother with Rocket again, got about a dozen average sized tatties from 4 plants, 13 weeks after planting them! >:( Might go for Pentland Javelin next year
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I have rocket in they are all in flower so I will look at trying them in a couple of weeks.
They were planted on the 28 th of march plenty of growth above ground let's hope the same underneath .
John
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Broad beans ,lettuce blueberries strawberries and some cherries
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A carrier bag of broad beans, beetroot and lettuce.
Next visit I must pick some peas.
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The first Lady Christls of this season.
About 2.4 Kg from four plants, I'm not convinced this is a great yield...
(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j85/argyll_photos/chat/DSCN0446.jpg)
... but most are a reasonable size.
(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j85/argyll_photos/chat/DSCN0447.jpg)
:)
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Them there spuddies looks luverly argyllie. ;)
I dug my first bag of "rocket" the other day. Now I'm looking forward to trying "Charlotte" as the "new potato" taste of the rocket wasn't quite as WOW as I remember from last year.
Still.........it is so nice to have something to bring home from the plot in this season of "the wet & cold"
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Them there spuddies looks luverly argyllie. ;)
Let's hope they taste it too. :)
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Some new pots (red duke of york), spring onion, beetroot, mange tout, onions and tomatoes
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A couple of turnips for Sunday dinner , trouble is we ate one raw lovely it was.
Picked some strawberries but I ate them before I got home( I have not told the good lady she loves strawbs )
John
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Lots of cropping - mange tout, french beans, broad beans, gallons of strawberries, charlotte potatoes and tons of courgettes.
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2 kilos of strawberries...!!! Tomorrow I will be everyone's best friend in the village as I pass them all round...
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Mangetout, the first of our peas (the kids loved them straight from the pod :) ), more new potatoes, couple of carrots, few strawberries and quite a few radish
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Just dug up some Rocket Potatoes.
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Large hand full of raspberries, they are two weeks earlier than last year. 1/3 carrier of strawberries and ditto of green gooseberries. A carrier of Broad Beans and a good boiling of peas. Enough 'Red Duke of York' for tonight Put 52 garlic bulbs in the polly to dry out.
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Just come back with broad beans, peas, potatoes and lettuce./ All looking good and healthy - the spuds a little meagre but many seem to be finding that this year. Borad beans and peas look set for the next couple of weeks and the most recent humid weather seems to suit them. Am going to try a suggestion from elsewhre on this forum of cooking the broad bean tops in some hot butter - sounds good.
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Just come back with broad beans, peas, potatoes and lettuce./ All looking good and healthy - the spuds a little meagre but many seem to be finding that this year. Borad beans and peas look set for the next couple of weeks and the most recent humid weather seems to suit them. Am going to try a suggestion from elsewhre on this forum of cooking the broad bean tops in some hot butter - sounds good.
Mine would be with added protein..... Are blackfly crunchy I wonder? :lol:
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I'lllet you know. :lol:
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I'lllet you know. :lol:
:lol: :lol: Good luck!! Always worth a try.... you never know until you do. ;)
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1 strawberry and 1 pea pod, both consumed...
I'm hoping more will follow...
Hannah :)
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I'lllet you know. :lol:
:lol: :lol: Good luck!! Always worth a try.... you never know until you do. ;)
BB tops stir-fried in butter were delicious! Consistency of spring greens but a strong bean-y taste that really worked. Sadly, no blackfly on mine so I ground some black pepper over them and pretended! :tongue2:
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First cucumber, First Broadies and courgettes
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Rhubarb, Strawberries, Sugar Snap Peas, Broad Beans, a couple of Autumn Calebrese florets and beetroot.
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some red onions,garlic and about 5lbs pent javelin and a 1lb strawberries. Also a load of baby carrots
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Plenty of rhubarb, couple of spring onions, lettuce, couple of little carrots and handful of baby beetroot - carrots and beets are roasting in the oven as I type. Mmmmm :D
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Autumn sown onions and garlic, and my second snowball turnip, lovely!
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Salad leaves, radish, sugar snap peas, spring onions, 1Kg carrots, and cabbage
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By the time you see this they will be gone :D
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Chillies, cucumber, strawberries, strawberries and strawberries :D
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potatoes, garlic and strawberries.
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Half a bag of mangetout, half a bag of peas, tons of strawberries, some lettuce, bad full of gooseberries and a cabbage (from last year still!)
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mangetout, salad leaves, some herbs (chives and mint), rhubarb and the first of our garlic - very small bulb, so won't lift the rest of it for a few weeks
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Remove all the Homeguard early potatoes. Also a few strawberries.
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First proper, full bowl of non-slug-ridden strawberries. Probably about 12-15 in total.
Also, first peo-pod picked last night, yielding only 4 small peas, but they were delicious. Should be overwhlmed with peas for the next 2-3 weeks judging from the number of flat pods and flowers. A definite 2012 success :)
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toms, pencil leeks, spring onions, radish,lettuce,spuds,rocket
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Enough Winston 2nd earlies for dinner. The rocket have done nothing so I tried further down the plot.
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Yesterday:
strawberries (the last harvest this year I think), raspberries, blackberries, onions, broad beans, potatoes (Charlotte this time), spring onions, broccoli, roses, sweet peas and a couple of sprigs of rosemary to go with the flowers.
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Strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, potatoes, broadbeans, first courgettes, beetroot (and a very wet person :lol:)
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One very small cucumber and some spring onions.
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Half a dozen strawberries that the slugs missed :mad:
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Big harvest last night.
-Cleared the remainder of the broad beans which filled a carrier bag.
-French beans
-Shiraz mange tout - enough to feed 6 of us in one meal, plus plenty to freeze
-Another kilo of strawberries (truth is, I was bored picking them so left the rest to hubby)
-Borlotti beans
-purple sprouting broccolli
-Another half a dozen mixed courgettes - green, yellow, round, etc.
The first of the sweet peas (very late this year) and an armful of various lilies for my vase.
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Yesterday before the latest bout of rain, another 2.3 Kg of Lady Christl from 4 plants. Going at that rate, the total could be around 25 Kg when all the plants are harvested..
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Kids and I harvested 5 Golden Nugget plants (first earlies) and got 3lb (1.3kg) - is that good? I don't know. They were planted 9th April.
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harvested 5 Golden Nugget plants (first earlies) and got 3lb (1.3kg) - is that good?
I'm not familiar with that potato variety, but I felt that last week's 2.4 Kg of Lady Christl from 4 plants wasn't that good.
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Harvested three potatoes
Two cabbages
Some lettuce
And my first crop of peas.
John
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Broad beans,lettuce strawberries,rasps and some blueberries
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10 runner beans ... First time this year, and potatoes and one cabbage
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More strawberries plus raspberries, tayberries, gooseberries and white/black berries. I also grabbed a globe courgette that seemed to have trebled in size overnight! Oh, and a cabbage and some lettuce!
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Carrier bag of raspberries,
Spinach for 2 people,
1 cucumber,
Bunch of parsley,
A few blackcurrants (all ready to harvest if the rain stops!)
And a small bucket of snails (not to eat I hasten to add)
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Rasps,strawbs,some broad beans and assorted lettuce
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Yesterday picked a nice load of mint, basil, oregano and Parsley, which has gone into overload this year
Picked a bowlful of mixed salad leaves
Last of my Spring cabbage, will be picking leaves of my Durham Cabbage next week.
The first Broad Beans
Picking the first peas early this week.
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I've just picked about 20 cherry tomatoes.
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4 courgettes picked to prevent them turning into marrows during the next two days of rain :happy:
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10lbs of Gooseberries, redcurratns, blackcurrants and my very first crop of Boysenberries.
Yum :D
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A carrier bagful of Alderman peas and half a bag of Belthony Blue peas, cos rain stopped picking ::)
A small Hispi cabbage for coleslaw
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More spinach, but I had to buy carrots as I need carrots. ::)
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A couple of small parsnips, broad beans and peas.
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2.5 kg spuds, shallots, snap peas strawberries and raspberries.
Grendel
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Handful each of strawberries, raspberries & blueberries from home & one wee spear of asparagus from new allotment.
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More strawbs... coming to the end tho.. Green onions and a load of peas and first broadbeans. Dont know how to eat them yet!! been told in white sauce so going to try this..
A handful of new spuddies..
My garlic is a disaster and all pulled up now. Rust and wet weather has made it die off too early and now some of the cloves are sprouting into leaf!!
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My first ever strawberry :)
Tasted lovely too :D
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Half a dozen Little Gem lettuce, last of the Rocket potatoes, peas, mangetout and half a bag of broad beans. Going to use them in Rick Steins broad bean and black pudding recipe later. Yum yum! :D
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My first ever strawberry :)
Tasted lovely too :D
Well done....
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20+ young runner beans, they are long enough but not as wide as usual. might be the water took away the sun. 6 or 7 french climbing beans, very low in production because lack of insects in the rain and hence lack of pollination
one cabbage, one cougette, some raspberry and strawberry
winter white sprouting brocolli seems going flowering
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40 very large onions, 30 above average garlic bulbs, 2 carrier bags of broad beans, 2 hispi cabbages, 2lb of strawberries, 1 lb of goosegogs and a handful of raspberries. Yum yum.
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Peas all eaten for tea along with potatoes and cabbage .
As the rain came down I left the strawberries
John
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Lots of lovely spring onions and a cucumber (from the plant that came back from the dead).
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Lots of big juicy raspberries. :D
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peas, peas and more peas ::)
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Some mixed lettuce leaves,Bag of Alderman peas,bag of Mange Tout peas bag of Broad
beans.
A few strawbs,some rasps,a few blueberries and 2 massive blackberries.
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Broad beans,Rhubarb,Beetroot,cabbage,Spring onions and Potatoes.
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Pentland Javelin spuds, broad beans, salad & rocket leaves, spinach, radish and some raspberries!
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Two cukes and a ahndful of cherry toms from the greenhouse, beetroot, peas, radish, kale and baby parsnips!
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blackberries, strawberries redcurrents all from the garden
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Globe artichoke, about 200g of jostaberries (never tried these before)
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Harvested a few plants of lady Christl - bit dissappointed with the yield, but after eating for tea tonight, all is forgiven!! Very tasty, like i remember them from childhood (they are my first ever homegrown potatoes!) :D
Also picked a few blackcurrants, spring onions and a lettuce!
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stopped raining for a few minutes so I went and picked blackberries.
Grendel
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2lb of peas, 1lb of broadbeans and around 2 small punnets of blackcurrants :)
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Longor shallots, Albigensian Wight and Early Purple Wight garlic. Strawberries and a handful of broad beans.
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Lady Christl and Rocket potatoes, Beetroot, baby parsnips, red onion, shallots, peas, fennel bulbs, courgettes (long and round ones), oregano, huge bag of kale. :D
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i lifted some red onions, shallots and baby carrots
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Some broad beans ,mange tout ,aldermans and lettuce.
Big tub of rasps,and blueberries
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Lady chrystle pots,last of the broadbeans,shallots and rhubarb
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Nice day today - almost last of the mangetout, peas, carrots (all straight too!!), new potatoes, gooseberries, strawberries and raspberries. Oh and a load of carnations for the house
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All of the Solent Wight garlic (stems were starting to rot), lots of mangetout and 3 cherry toms. :)
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Turnips lettuce and strawberries Sunday.
Only had a spare hour or I would have peas and potatoes as well
The strawberry bed needed a bit of a tidy loads of runners cut off. Still got lots of flowers although the fruit I picked was only small .i am not sure what brand of strawberry it is as they were of a neighbouring plot last year .
John
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A cycle trailer load of shallots..(about 20kg)... no good waiting around for those warm, dry days so up they came.
A bucketful of potatoes, spring onions, raspberries and blackberries. I ate the two strawberries so there wouldn't be arguements when it came to sharing between the five of us when I got home. ;)
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Despite the poor weather, this weekend gave the best harvest of the year so far:
- managed to find about a dozen decent strawberries among the rotted and half slug-eaten fruit. Eaten for breakfast Sunday morning
- picked all the broadbeans off the two plants our girls had brought home from school. Eaten blanched in a salad Saturday night
- picked the first crop of chanteray carrots, the biggest coming in at about 2cm! Ate with tea Sunday night.
- a good handful of french breakfast radishes. Eaten with lunch on Saturday and Sunday
- a colander full of mixed salad leaves - mostly red veined sorrel and mixed mustard leaves. Eaten Saturday night (with the broad beans)
- two hot banana peppers, grilled on the BBQ Sunday night
- first two tomatoes of the year! Both eaten by our girls as soon as they were picked
- 15-20 wild strawberries - also eaten striaght off the plant, mostly by our girls!
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Had my first pickings of Charlotte pots. Left them a little long as they are now medium sized, but absolutely yummy and buttery..or was that the LChristi, I forgot which row was which despite colour co-ordinating them
Anyway, well happy :D
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picked my 3rd one today from outside,,also had caulis greyhound cabbage ,still have about 12 ready,tommys still green an going slow
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A cycle trailer load of shallots..(about 20kg)... no good waiting around for those warm, dry days so up they came.
The leaves on some of my shallots are just starting to turn brown ? is it better to lift from sodden soil and dry in conservatory than leave in the ground. Will they be any good for pickling which was our goal
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mange tout, and alderman peas,broad beans lettuce and about 4lb of rasps
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Peas, sugar snap peas, pepper, chillie, carrots, cuke
Yum, yum
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onions and potatoes.
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Haven't managed to get on here much lately (made redundant and finding then starting a new job are big time sinks, as well as keeping up with the plot), but had to drop in with my latest harvest, of which I am a little proud:
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Very nice kosh ;) glad you are getting yourself sorted too. :)
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The first few rainbow chard stalks and leaves of the season. :) I would have taken more spinach too, but it is down the other end and I got wet enough from the rain just getting the chard. ::)
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2 cherries :(
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I picked a few redcurrants off the bush today. They were lovely and ripe but so sour without enough sun. :mellow:
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Hand full of raspberries, Redcurrants also, from backgarden- left them on a tray over night as the sun was out (briefly)- brought in this morning, tray was an inch full of rain water. Remainder of spuds from linkaboard bed, charlottes & anya.
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Potatoes turnips and peas
Almost forgot 2 raspberries
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New potato's, lettuce, broad beans,mange tout,alderman peas,rasps and carrots .
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Found a red currant bush loaded with berries today down by a river.. so I had to remove them to save them from the birds!! Then made a mixed jelly/seedles jam by adding some raspberries.. So I call it jamelly..
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A raspberry, A RASPBERRY! WOOHOOOO!
(my first ever homegrown raspberry, from canes planted this spring!)
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Three small mini cukes - amazed as a few weeks ago the plants looked as if they were going to die. One small sweet green pepper - the first this year - I prefer them when they are green to when they ripen to red - a much fresher taste. :)
Went to pick some spring onions only to find that the last of the ones ready for picking had been chomped down to the ground - suspect a rabbit which I had previously seen on the patch - it if is not the weather it is the wildlife that we are battling. :(
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Dug up all potatoes as the foliage had got blight. Large trugful of potatoes. The main crop were a bit on the small side, but some of the charlottes had bulked up (much to my relief as the early harvest were terrible). I picked some round yellow and green courgettes - and gave them to a fellow plotholder. Finally, I also harvested some shiraz and golden mange tout and purple french beans.
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Three mini-cukes, a few toms, a few cherry peppers to stuff & freeze and two lovely looking dedo de mocha peppers. :)
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200g of gooseberries off the potted bush in my back garden. Last year I only got 6 berries total, so this is excellent, and there are some more still on the bush.
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Some beetroot, four courgettes and rhubarb
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Some beetroot, four courgettes and rhubarb
Courgettes!! You're doing well.
I've one or two of those round ball shaped courgettes gradually developing..... they are so late this year. Marbles rather than tennis balls this year. :mellow:
And no unnecessary comments needed, thank you - we all have our problems. :lol:
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Yep, 4 courgettes. Thought I'd better pick them quick before the slugs got them. I have two of the round courgettes as well but they're not doing well.
I'll refrain from unnecessary comments :D
Today, picked the rest of the peas as the plants have been sitting in a waterlogged part of the plot and are dying.
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100g jostaberries - at least you can't get them in the shops.
Belana first earlies, 5.5kg from 10 plants. Haven't tasted these yet!
Rest of the Golden Nugget first earlies, another 1.5kg, making only about 3.5kg total, but they are much smaller. these are yummy.
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Last of the black currants and summer raspberries (Autumn ones coming along though),l loganberries, beetroot, peas, early leeks , two courgettes, french beans, two orange sunrise tomatoes, a few radishes and a butterhead lettuce, plus about 8kg of first early spuds.
will cut the flowers tomorrow
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First of my Champion of England peas, hooray! Some broad beans, and all of the Music garlic. Apart from 1 bulb, all a bit smaller than I anticipated. A good picking of strawberries, half a dozen raspberries, handful of blackcurrants from new bush and the last of the redcurrants.
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Some broad beans, mange tout,peas.new potatoes carrots lettuce and rasps
These were shared between my daughter,her friend and two of the neighbours
Cheers Carl
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The last of the early peas before the plants came out, a small courgette and three small sunflowers to put in a vase in the lounge.
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dug out some rather sad looking spuds, a few onions and some garlic.
Ground somewhat wet so spuds less than perfect.
Hopefully the sunshine will help the crops recover!!
cheers HH
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Carrots, carrots and more carrots :D
Peas, mange tout, red currants, cucumber, green pepper
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Loads of peas, some broad beans, broad bean tips (lovely sauted in butter :) ) and carrots
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Up early to dig, to weed and to pick - only the second time this year we have been to the plot at 7 am without rain or the imminent threat. Cleared the peas - 10.5 lbs from two short rows, some of them still sweet, but mostly for making gallons of pea soup.
Good yields from a forkful each of Kestrels and Charlottes, and hoping that the rest of ourt blight-stricken tubers will stay healthy, albeit smallish and stripped of their foliage.
The first round courgette of the year (Rondo di Toscano) and lots more coming through. Hope that we can keep the slugs at bay to give them a chance.
Expiremented with pulling a carrot - not many from the spring sowing survived the cold and the wet, but some healthy feathery foliage and this one shows promise. We'll try again in two weeks.
Altogether a good result after everything thrown at us this summer - but on the debit side, stripped the leaves off all of our blight-stricken tomatoes and hoping that the sun will coax some growth from the flowering heads.
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Two more cucumbers, spring onions (ones that the rabbits missed), and a sweet pepper.
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The
Courgette Marrow Fairy has been here ::) got to find something to do with them now :lol:
Picked lettuce, cucumber, red salad onions and tomatoes for tea :)
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Pulled up the rest of the garlic. The elephant garlic is about the size of a normal bulb but pleased to have something tbh. :)
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More loganberries
Couple of pounds of broad beans, ready to freeze
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7lbs of Kestrel from a 15' row! The largest ones were about the size of a coffee mug, and they were all near to the surface which surprised me as they were earthed up three times.
One cuc, one ripe tom, a dozen shallots and enough peas to todays dinner.
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Pentland javelin spuds, courgettes, french beans, salad leaves, radish, spring onions. :D
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Bag of peas, a few raspberries and the first outdoor tomato!
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A few volunteer potatoes from the compost bin, in a lot better condition than the ones I planted.
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Took up some shallotts as they were in a very wet part of plot,enough early carrots for dinner many which are long thin and splitting, beetroot and rocket potatos both in good condition.
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Some broad beans,mange tout,peas,lettuce,leaf beat.
Also had rasps ,blueberries Bedford giant blackberries, loganberries and boysenberry
Cheers Carl
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Broad beans. That's all.
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The last of my february-sown lettuces (!) was scoffed for lunch on Saturday, together with some spicy salad leaves and red-veined sorrel.
For tea Saturday night, we had the entire available harvest of purple teepee beans, about 20 beans in total from 4 plants. There are still a dozen or so tiddlers left on, and more flowers coming, so hopeful for more to come.
A handful of wild strawberries on Sunday morning, and then some of the older, tougher mint sprigs for a big pot of mint tea Sunday afternoon.
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cucumber, tomato, lettuce the last handful of peas ;)
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Pretty much last of the mangetout, two types of lettuce, last of the gooseberries, some spring onions, some more carnations for the cemetery and at home.
Oh - and the first courgettes of the season - 5 finger length little ones that ive just eaten in a stir fry!!
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5 mini cucumbers and a courgette de nice
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Cucumber, cherry toms, rocket, carrots, Beetroot, potatoes (Kestrel I think), kale, peas, French beans (purple and yellow), shallots.
It's all coming together at last 8)
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Lady Christl spuds (last) beetroot, land cress, a few broad beans and peas, lots of herbs, a tomato, garlic.
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Just some Autumn Broccoli to have a teatime.
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Spinach and beetroot.
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inter kidneys some the size of bakers , peas strawberrys a hand full of runners and some toms from the gh with a couple of small cues swiss chard and onions starting to dry
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Courgettes,beetroot,spring onions,carrots, potatoes and the first two ripe cherry tomatoes.
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Spring onion, french beans, runner beans, courgettes, onions, beetroot, cabbage. Vegetable stir-fry anyone? :D
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More rhubarb and broad beans.
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broad beans lettuce peas and beetroot very pleased with how its all coming home now to eat and not rotting in the ground :D
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I'm with you Li. Its a nice feeling harvesting at the lottie after a long wait.
Anyways, harvest today was carrots, Beetroot, potatoes, kale, small cauliflower, rocket, cucumber, pepper
and small toms from gh
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half a plastic trug of potatoes, a small handfull of raspberries and 3 pea pods.
Grendel
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As my Aubergines look as if they have blight, I'm not putting them back in the greenhouse to risk the tomatoes :ohmy: - so I've just picked any fruit of useable size before the rain starts. Something from them at least :)
Also tipped out a tub of potatoes that were blighted and got a 'shop-sized' bag of new potatoes, also better than losing the lot!
Cut a Hispi cabbage for coleslaw later :)
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Tonight I picked my first cucumber, a clutch of spring onions and some cos lettuce.
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Three bags of broad beans,mange tout and peas.
About 1lb of rasps,some blueberries loganberries and blackberries and 1 strawberry.
Cheers Carl
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Another good picking of peas and snap peas broad beans lettuce potatoes beetroot and a larger than large turnip :)
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Garlic, runner beans and green and yellow courgettes
Cheers HH
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been picking spring onions and lettuce for agesbut today i picked some broccoli it was good very good .and im happy
chrissie b
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Peas, rocket, radish and chillies
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I lifted my red onions, some the size of cooking apples at least something has liked the weird weather
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Six ant bites, one swollen foot and a 7 day course of antibiotics. :(
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Six ant bites, one swollen foot and a 7 day course of antibiotics. :(
Poor you :( I react badly to red ant bites as well, so I know how painful they can be :( Hope you are feeling a bit better now.
Not my harvest as such, but emptied some display wooden veg planters at work yesterday ready for a replant and put a whole crate of stuff in the tea room for everyone to share - new potatoes, beetroots, broad beans, spring onions and even some garlic :)
It really got everyone going and you could see a few cogs turning where people were thinking ' wow this growing lark is OK isn't it'. We've already had lots of toms off display planters and even an aubergine or 2, so fingers crossed a few of them will give it a go next year :D
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One cucumber, a couple of sweet green peppers and a bunch of spring onions (the ones that the rabbits did not find). Could have picked some baby beets but decided to let them grow a little longer.
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Not my harvest as such, but emptied some display wooden veg planters at work yesterday ready for a replant and put a whole crate of stuff in the tea room for everyone to share - new potatoes, beetroots, broad beans, spring onions and even some garlic :)
It really got everyone going and you could see a few cogs turning where people were thinking ' wow this growing lark is OK isn't it'. We've already had lots of toms off display planters and even an aubergine or 2, so fingers crossed a few of them will give it a go next year :D
That sounds great New Shoot. I can remember the same interest when I worked at School and took in spare tomatoes and beans. It's time and effort as well as space that's needed on top of the enthusiasm. ;)
My harvest: one cucumber and no ants! :)
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Yesterday's harvest was a good bunch of runner and mixed french beans, too many courgettes (contribution left on the bench for other plotholders!), chillis, a nice crop of ripe plum and mixed cherry tomatoes. It really feels like summer when the tomatoes start cropping!
I have a plan to use my huge round courgettes as soup bowls!
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Picked peas ,mange tout ,broad beans some potato's lettuce and carrots.
Fruit wise had some raspberries,loganberries,and boysenberries
Thanks Carl
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5lb of broad beans
4lb of peas
1/2lb od mangetout
and a handfull of calabrese spears
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Peas, runner beans, celery, pots, shallots, onions, spring onions, tomatoes, cucumber,lettuce, strawberries and raspberries.
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Peas potatoes cabbage lettuce radish runner beans carrots good day in all ;)
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Havested last of our shallots which maybe a little early but wet weather is forecast to return next week.
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British Queen 2nd earlies, overwintered onions, Champion of England peas, handful of broad beans, strawberries. Given some gooseberries by fellow plotholder.
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Two Cauliflower, Beetroot, Peas and our first picking of Runner Beans :)
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a whole trug of potatoes.
Grendel
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Two green courgettes and the first yellow courgette. Fennel bulbs, spinach, swiss chard, Beetroot and peas.
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Not a lot over the weekend:
- the entire harvest of whitecurrants from my single plant - about 40 currants in total!! Eaten with chocolate puddings Saturday night!
- the last of my peas (a bit starchy), around 20 pods.
- small handful of raspberries and wild strawberries.
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5lb of broad beans this is 2nd picking got loads more to pick :D lettuce, 2 turnips, carrots, radish,beetroot and a few runner beans all in all a good harvest to what i was expecting due to the past weather :mad:
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A bucket full of potatoes, beetroot and some Kinghorn wax beans.
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A bag full of swiss chard, 20 Beetroot, 4 round courgettes that were a big over sized so cut them inhalf, removed the seeds and stuffed them with mince, onion, small tomoates and chillie.
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I dug up half of my first attempt at growing spuds - swift earlies - and was pleasently surprised to get over 7kilos!
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Beetroot peas lettuces and radish thought i'd get fed up with the same but never so different in taste from home grown the only trouble is i pick loads of pease and only half get home :D
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I know exactly what you mean Li....... I never get all the peas home :D
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About 4lb broad beans,3lb peas, 3lb mange tout ,4 carrots,10 lb potato's,1 courgette and 2lb
of rasps
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640g of sungold tomatoes! (lots seem to have ripened in the last two days as I only picked them on Monday, this is from 8 plants). Also 1.3kg (not counting the one we ate for dinner last night) from 3 plants, been to check this morning and there's another couple ready for picking, how did they grow overnight!
Hannah :)
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Runner beans, french beans and courgettes today!
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Courgettes, drawf french beans and braod beans.
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Six beetroot, two sweet peppers, bunch spring onions and two cukes.
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10 beetroot, 8 carrots, couple of gem lettuce and a clutch of spring onions.
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A surprising handful of purple teepee beans while I cleared the plants away... it's amazing how many can hide among the foliage! Enough for my tea!
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Another 18 plants of charlottes lettuce radish and 2 carrots i very large and the other with 5 fingers lol :D
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3 lovely cauliflowers
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Harlequin carrots ( except they are all orange :wub:)
Beautiful cabbage, yellow climbing French beans, Beetroot and lettuce
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Potatoes, raspberries and blackberries, roses, gladioli, sweet-peas and beetroot.
I'm hoping to get back tomorrow for runner beans and peas if the weather holds.
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Orla potatoes, 5 carrots (one had two stems so could call that 6 carrots!), a handful of dwarf French beans, 1 beetroot, 1 kohlrabi and a round courgette.
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Turnips peas beans Beetroot lettuce
Rasps but I ate them before I got home
John
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Beetroot, runner beans, yellow courgette, butterhead lettuce and a few spuds I furtled up just for a look-see (Kestrel)
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Picked Dwarf and runner beans a few rasberries, salad onions and potatotes.
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Handfull of runners, 1 yellow and 1 round green courgette and about 20 lbs of Charlotte and LChristi pots
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CofE peas, a few broad beans and strawberries and the first of the Tuscan kale.
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Another small punnet of sungold tomatoes! More peas as well :)
H
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French beans, toms and half a cabbage (my one and only, previously known as 'the sacrificial cabbage' or 'the slug hotel' ::)). :)
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Picked a few autumn raspberries (actually they picked themselves as I wasn't really expecting to have any this early and they fell off the plant!)
More sugarsnap peas (getting near the end now.)
Still lifting Lady Christl spuds - relatively few but large, as well they should be after all this time.
Strawberries still coming slowly but steadily (haven't stopped since early June!)
First tomato from greenhouse, which is also my first ever Sungold - rather small but very tasty.
Still waiting for first courgette and first runner beans, but should be picking in a day or so. :)
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Globe artichoke. :)
Still lifting Lady Christl spuds here too, more to come today hopefully if it dries up a bit. More rainbow chard today too, it is growing like mad which I'm happy about. First few tomatoes will ripen for picking in the next few days if the sun shines.
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Globe artichoke. :)
Enjoy it ;)
I've picked a small Golden Nugget squash that had decided to ripen unexpectedly, a handful of runners, a Tromba d'Albenga courgette/squash/thingy :blink: and 5 raspberries :blush:
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Globe artichoke. :)
Enjoy it ;)
Hope so. :) It was the only one on that plant. Three more coming on one of the other plants, none so far on the third remaining plant, but it is very small..
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Another huge bag of runner beans (now in the freezer)
Dug all the second early potatoes:
8kg kestrel
8kg Sarpo Una
8kg Nadine
All were from 8 seed potatoes of each, so very pleased
Blackberries, tayberries, a golden ball head cabbage, a small bowl of shiny red onions left over from a sowing of salad onions and a huge bunch of flowers, including some of our red and maroon dahlias :D
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Lunch came entirely from the garden (if you ignore the bread roll and cheese I added later)! Last of the broad beans mixed with white onion and chives, the first of my most recently sown radishes (planted only 2-and-a-half weeks ago!!) and a mixed salad of red-veined sorrel (first time I've grwon this and I love it), little gem, lollo rosso, rocket, and flat-leaf parsley.
:)
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Two cukes, two sweet peppers, a bunch of spring onions and a couple of beetroot.
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On Saturday we had broad beans, courgettes, runner beans, peas, carrots, chilli peps, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, and calabrese. (The spuds were for Sunday, as this was all in a stir fry, well the veg was...)
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300g peas (weight out of pods!), now in the freezer!
Enough salad leaves for lunch!
H :)
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picked a few courgettes for tea tonight.
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3 kg courgettes - courgette soup all made and ready for the freezer!
Charlotte potatoes
Mange tout
Peas
French beans
Tomatoes
Carrots
Pinkcurrants
Gooseberries
Lettuce leaves
Garlic x 40!
Shallots
A couple of beetroot
Onions
And armsful of sweet peas and gladioli
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Radish
Potatoes
Lettuce
8lb of broad beans sore fingers now from depodding
3 lb of peas
1 gourd
1 yellow courgette
beetroot
turnips
spring onions
Barlotti beans
Runner beans
2 carrots
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Wow what a haul guys.
Mine was a pathetic bin bag of kale and 10 sweetheart cabbages (hiding in the kale).
A few runner beans and baby parsnips.
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Potatoes, Hispi cabbage, french beans, broad beans, courgettes and rhubarb.
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About 10 lbs of potato's,carrots,lettuce some swiss chard spinach mange tout and alderman
peas.
A courgette ,veg spaghetti squash blackberries ,and rasps.
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Kilo of runner beans, 18 courgettes :ohmy: - 12 of which I gave to another plotholder! a patty pan the size of a dinner plate, half kilo of purple french beans, kilo of mixed cherry toms, a handful of mixed chillis, various herbs, sweet peas and five stalks of gladioli.
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Popped back tonight with hubby and pulled some baby beetroot, more courgettes, spinach, french and runner beans.
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Large cabbage given to plot neighbours & about 7 very small courgettes,green & yellow 7 a couple of very small onions that Mr S strimmed out of the ground.
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Picked my first tomaotes
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French beans and runner beans (which are going like the clappers) and 4 courgettes.
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White lady runner beans
Black beauty Courgettes
Flyaway carrots
Pentland Javelin potatoes
All ended up in my Sunday lunch.
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The courgette.
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For a year one newbie, 3kg King Edward, 1.2kg runner beans, 8 onion.
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Picked my first tomaotes
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This little lot!! Well pleased as a relative noob too!! :D
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Well done Stratts that's a lovely harvest. :D
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Ditto Stratts. That is an amazing haul.
Carrier bag of runner beans
Carrier bag of Swiss chard
6 Mini-pop sweetcorn cobs
Good haul,of climbing French beans (flat yellow ones and standard green ones)
Large head of kale
Large cabbage
3greengages
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picked toms, courgettes, sweet peas, runners, a few strawbs, kestrel spuds,
all very nice.
Although spuds were cut down a few weeks early due to blight which means we lost half the possible crop.
Sweet peas have started to have some dieback on the leaves. Last year it swept through all the plots taking all. Does anyone know whats doing this. I thought it might be red spiider mite but now I'm not so sure
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We had a salad tonight:
Gem lettuce, green peppers, cucs, toms, salad onions, and fresh boiled beetroot off the plot.
The cheese, boiled eggs and corned beef came from T**co. I can't find seeds for them! :lol:
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Loads of beans!! Runners and french - bootiful. ;)
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French beans , runner beans , 2 courgettes 5 carrots, chillis ,some blackberries and
raspberries, mange tout peas and a veg spaghetti squash
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Hurrah! First real harvest from the new plot! 5 runnerbeans! :D
Keep checking on courgettes everyday, three round ones are golfball size this morning, and the lone pumpkin has a flower :happy:
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drawf beans and a hispi cabbage.
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Yellow courgettes, green round courgettes, runner beans, purple french beans, chillis, various tomatoes and a cucumber.
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6lb of rocket potatoes & 2 lovely cauliflowers.
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Red Alert tomatoes - have been growing them for several years now and they continue to impress if not astound - they are outperforming all the other varieties in the nearby greenhouse by a long way.
The pic is of a single plant in its compost bag in the cold frame - it does have a "mate" but it has struggled and has somewhat deformed leaves. Only thing I can think of is that it's nearer than the other to where I sprayed "Weedol" on the patio earlier in the summer - despite taking every care, and the fact that the lights on the cold frame were closed at the time I suspect it was somehow affected by the weedkiller. Beware!
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The first ripe tomato. :D
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a whole bucket of runner beans a handful of french beans and half a bucket of plums and 3 apples.
Grendel
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A decent haul of chioggia and cylindra beetroot. At least the same again left in the ground.
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And another row of Lady Christl. :)
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more runner beans and the courgette fairy has been again (give us a break - please) :D
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french beans, courgettes, carrots, patty pan squash and rhubarb.
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more runner beans and the courgette fairy has been again (give us a break - please) :D
Throw them my way if you have a glut of courgettes.... very thin on the ground here. :blink:
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All the spuds seem to have come at once :ohmy:
So we have a sack of Juliettes a sack of the first earlies, and a sack of Charlottes.
Chantanay carrots, spring onions, many courgettes, from which I do not want a break, French beans, flat beans, runner beans and a mean handful of tomatoes which have been pants this year :(
Lots of blackberries.
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A punnet of sungold of tomatoes (the small kind you get strawberries in from the supermarket).
A handful of runner beans, they have finally started to be fruitful.
More courgettes....
Two dressing gown pocket fulls of peas which pretty much concludes the pea harvest.
A load if super chilli F1.
Tried a first black berry but it wasn't quite ready :wacko:
H :)
P.s. how could I forget, my very first kabuki calabrese head, I was so excited I hadnt noticed they had grown so!
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Well i have had a weeks holiday and came back to a moutain of beans (almost literally!!!). So despite picking all immature beans before going i have taken off three carrier bags full.
Dont get me talking about the courgettes (of which all but three have been thrown in the bin)
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Harvested Rasberries,Runner beans,Potatoes,Beetroot,French beans,salad onions, Carrots and one plum all very satisfying, sadly my outdoor tomatoes all seem to be affected by blight which is running riot in our area.
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Harvested potato's,veg squash ,courgettes ,french beans,runner beans,chillis,rasps and
blackberries,some spinach and rainbow chard.
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Yesterday I harvested Onions, Shallots, runner beans, peas, spinach, damsons and blackberries - then went home and had my first attempt at making jam with the blackberries and damsons! Had some of the blackberry jam with toast this morning :happy:
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Lots more rainbow chard, 2 courgettes and 4 minipop, with 2 more of them waiting in the wings. At least they're not ripening singly this year, just at the moment. ::)
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A massive veg squash ,French beans ,runner beans ,onions chillis,spinach ,rainbow chard
blackberries and raspberries
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My first tomato - do not know weather nature took its course or whether the banana skins that I threw in the GH helped. (And some other things as well - but they are not as important as my tomato). :lol:
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My first tomato -
Well done Springlands. :) That's a week earlier than my first one last year, but I've (somehow, amazingly) beaten you by a week this year. :lol:
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3lb of tomatoes (why do they all come at once?), bag of salad potatoes, some french beans, 2 cucumbers, first ripe pepper of the year, and various salads, radish and spring onions. Very modest haul, but as it's all been grown on a small balcony I am very happy!
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A lovely round courgette (first one), and 3 more beans. Ate them with our tea, sliced with olive oil and pepper.
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A handfull of runner beans and about 150g of chillies (Super F1)
Hannah :)
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My first tomato -
Well done Springlands. :) That's a week earlier than my first one last year, but I've (somehow, amazingly) beaten you by a week this year. :lol:
:lol: I picked a second one and OH and I had one each with our lunch and very nice they were. Looks like others are on the turn so should have more soon. :)
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More runners, trombone courgettes, a punnet of raspberries and a carrier bagful of Desiree spuds from the plot.
A bowlful of tomatoes and a couple of skinny aubergines from the garden :)
I forgot to add my first sweetcorn cob :D
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I got my first sweetcorn today as well :D It kind of fell into a pan of boiling water when I got home so don't tell OH ;) :lol:
Also from the plot - courgette, gem squash, climbing french beans, perpetual spinach and chard and another big bag of Aztec Broccoli :D
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Potatoes , turnips, peas, runner beans, carrot, beet root, also onions that had been drying for a couple of weeks.
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First 3 tomatos :D 1 gardners delight and 2 sweet babys!
Quite a few starting to ripen now.
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The first handful of green climbing french beans. :) These were from the plant in the polytunnel - the only reason there is a plant in there is because there were no more climbing spots outdoors. The outdoor purple climbing french beans are flowering profusely, less so the green outdoor plants and pea beans but both are flowering now too.
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more courgettes, french beans, onions, purple top turnips.
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Lifted the onions. Very happy with them. Brought home the few with thick necks as they don't store too good. The rest will hang in the shed soon. Picked another bunch of french beans, my first runners, a garlic, gem lettuce and a few beets.
(http://i1156.photobucket.com/albums/p564/Wavertree/d039aa54f35348226855565fcdb9532d.jpg)
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5.5kg of Maris Pipers
2.5 kg of Cara's (bit disapointed as same row length as the pipers :( )
1kg of runner beans
a hand full of french beans
last 4 onions
a bag full of blackberries.
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Second round courgette, and 6 runner beans.
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Enough runners for 2 people (or just enough for me ::) :lol: ) a small Hispi cabbage, icecream tub of raspberries a couple of big baking potates, whose name escapes me atm :blush: and a sweetcorn cob which I'm eating now for lunch, and very nice it is too :)
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Decided to pick as many french beans (yellow and green) so I can freeze them. More rhubarb and some carrots.
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More green climbing french beans, courgettes, chard, minipop and beetroot will probably all end up in today's tea. Some herbs, thyme and rosemary, for tomorrow's lunch salad.
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Another veg squash,runner beans, French beans,cucumber, 2 courgettes,chillis ,spinach and
rainbow chard.The 1st tomato is almost ready for picking at last!
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1 bucketful of potatoes
1 bucketful of beans (runners & French)
2 carrots
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Couple of cucumbers, calbrese, cauli, spring onions and raspberries today
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1 black Beauty courgette...... the first!! ::)
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Various sized and shaped courgettes, cucumber, runner beans, raspberries, tomatoes, chillis, blauhilde climbing beans, a lovely lettuce, some oregano and sage for drying.
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A 2ft long (but still skinny)Trombone courgette/squash/thingy :blink: half a carrier bag of runners, 10 corn cobs and a punnet of raspberries from the plot.
A bowlful of mixed toms, a cuke, a couple of green/red (nearly ripe) peppers and some skinny aubergines :)
I love this time of year :D
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2 foot long? :ohmy:
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Beetroot, Runner Beans, New Potatoes, Courgettes (again) and a Cauliflower.
Happy Days!
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2 foot long? :ohmy:
yup - I'll do photos later :D
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1 sweet corn 8)
1 leek :wub:
and a few spuds. :)
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A cauli,a round cabbage,a poor show of potatoes-lady Balfour,picasso & a better crop of volunteers from the compost bin
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Some rhubarb and runner beans.......... but best of all some potatoes and dwarf french beans that were 2 hours from lotty to plate - supermarket veg could never compete, it was delicious :) :)
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The last of the cucumbers (last plant has finally expired), three lovely toms and a green pepper.
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Came back from the plot with yellow and white courgettes, gem squash, sweetcorn, french beans, perpetual spinach and the first of the Autumn Bliss rasps.
The greenhouse yielded toms, a couple of small aubergines and basil.
The garden added some more french beans and some early apples.
Had a busy morning since blanching, freezing, preparing stuff to be dried in the dehydrator and scoffing .... well I need to make sure its all OK don't I ;) :lol:
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Been away for a week so lots to collect ......
Crate full of runner beans, same of climbing / dwarf French beans ( green, purple and yellow), 10 sweetcorn cobs, Swiss chard, spinach, yellow striped marrows (AKA courgettes), harlequin carrots, turnips, kale.
Tomatoes, chillies, peppers and cukes from greenhouses.
Had to save a pumpkin as the one I was nurturing has been stolen whilst I was away. Thing is I now have a green pumpkin and not sure what to do so it stores for a while longer. :blush:
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Lots of lovely plums, french beans, 3 peppers, bowlful of raspberries, yet more tomatoes :)
But not one single courgette - I don't understand it??
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2 foot long? :ohmy:
I put the promised photo in my diary ;)
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=87600.msg1089761#msg1089761
todays tea is meatballs in sauce made from homegrown tomato, garlic and basil with a salad :)
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Quarter of an ice cream tub of rasberries, runner beans ( enough for us for dinner and 6 bags of about 500 Grams for the local flower festival to sell ) along with 6 carrier bags of beetroot aslo donated to FF, potatoes,carrots, french beans and a sweet corn.
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2 foot long? :ohmy:
I put the promised photo in my diary ;)
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=87600.msg1089761#msg1089761
I've seen it thanks. ;) :D
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just in case nobody believed me :lol:
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just in case nobody believed me :lol:
Oh we did. ;) But the evidence is interesting. :lol:
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We braved the rain this morning, popping out between downpours to collect our second-crop Broad Beans. It's the first time we've tried growing a second crop, but the first was such a washout due to lack of pollinating insects that wew thought we'd give it a go.
What a result :D
We grew a variety called 'Meteor' for the first time, and I didn't even sow the seed until mid-June. I put them in toilet-roll inners (which I always use for my broads), planting them out a couple of weeks later. There were two packs, so about 30 or 40 plants probably, and they grew like - well, beans! We've harvested about 3 STONE of pods, a big recycling box full, so it'll be black-stained fingertips tonight as I pod them all and blanch them for freezing! I'll make sure I get this variety again and plant them earlier next year, as they are tasty as well as fast growing, and only two were hit by blackfly (unlike the first crop, which turned black with aphids). Highly recommended :)
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Runner beans, climbing beans, courgettes, squashes, raspberries, baby corn, turnips, beetroots, spring onions, chillis, tomatoes, aubergines and some rosemary.
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Runner beans, french beans, 1 scallop squash, toms, 4 cues, 6 aubergines, plums, peaches. :)
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First Courgette of the year, and 1 runner bean again first of the year. Boy it's been a slow year hopefully no early frosts up here. Good job the onions and tatties have done well!!
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2 small cauli's, a few rocket potatoes from the lottie & 2 1/2 lbs of toms from the greenhouse.
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French beans Runner beans rainbow chard chillis And about 3lb of blackberries
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Globe artichokes, destined for tomorrow's lunch salad. Minipop, a few chioggia beetroot and a load of french beans, which will all go into today's stir fry for tea. :D
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Mini pops YAYYYY!!!
pounds and pounds of tomatoes of all shapes and sizes and colours
runner beans, beetroot, a Golden Acre cabbage, leeks, and some parsnip thinnings
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Back to my garden after 2 weeks in Spain, so a quick tidy up last night with a few veggies picked:
One beautiful, shiny, large purple pepper (4 more to pick on the same plant)
4 enormous Vienna F1 radishes (with about 20 more to pick, although sadly, my last sowing before the holiday got drowned as I forgot to put holes in the bottom of the pot)
2 gusto purple chillis
and accidentally broke a branch of my apache chilli plant, with a couple of red chillis and about a dozen green ones
Also had the first 4 sweet-n-neat yellow tomatoes, and picked a few green tomatoes off a couple of forgotten seedlings that never got transferred to pots or growbags yet have still produced a few small toms each!
Lots more to come, as plenty more peppers on the six different plants I've grown, all my tomato plants have produced some green fruit while we've been away (even the troublesome summer cider tomato that I had given up on), the dwarf purple teepee beans have produced a second crop, and the climbing green beans have also started producing. The Swiss chard has gone completely mad (several plants have leaves as big as dinner plates) and there is a huge cucumber on one of the two plants. Still no courgettes, mind you!
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Harvested 2 hispi cabbages and a small cauliflower.
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2lb of runner beans in the rain :)
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My first sweetcorn cob (Swift) for two years!
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just picked 2lb of french beans (not in the rain :lol:) - there growing faster than i can pick them.
i was in the shops (asda) the other day and they had an offer on 100g of french beans for 50p - ive just picked 5 quids worth today alone (from around 50p's worth of seed)!
oh and a cuc
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The first climbing french beans grown outside on the frame, both purple - sooo pretty :D - and green. I had previously posted that we're harvesting polytunnel grown green ones as there is a spare plant in there. :) There are more courgettes, minipop and lots of chard ready but probably not so ready that they won't keep 'til tomorrow...
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A yellow courgette and the white courgette plant has snuck some tendrils off between the compost bins when I wasn't looking, so found several fruits lurking there :D
The first of my 'golden shrimp' Anellino-Giallo climbing french beans - these are a heritage variety which are supposed to have a great flavour, so looking forward to trying these :)
Another 2 lunch boxes full of huge lush Autumn Bliss rasps and a bag of Aztec Brocolli :happy:
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for tea last night a nice mixture of purple teepee and blue lake french beans, and some delicious steamed chard (first time we've grown it). Chard stalks and a few apache chillis will go in with the stir-fry tonight.
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Three more courgettes, a couple of patty pan squash, lots of yellow and green french beans, a few broad beans, loads of carrots, a cucumber, some rhubarb and five purple top turnips from the plot.
At home OH harvested a full bucket of plums. I've managed to stone and lightly stew a third of them ready to go in the freezer. It looks like it will be a cooking and blanching weekend.
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One plum tomato from a hanging basket.... not the best of harvests but perhaps another will ripen eventually.
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2 round courgettes, 1 patty pan squash, 3 cues, green & purple french beans and some toms. :)
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Runner beans, French beans, carrots, outdoor aubergines, greenhouse tomatoes, first Outdoor tomato (Brandywine), and baby parsnips.
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Just harvested 20 comice pears from my little tree in the garden. OH is picking the apples as I write this.
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Courgettes, minipops, french beans both green and purple, carrots.
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picked up some more windfalls in the garden, 12lb apples peeled cored and sliced then frozen.
Grendel
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Eight big, fat, juicy sweetcorn cobs from my greenhouse - the outside ones are a bit behind but, even so - a-MAIZE-ing!!! :lol:
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2 1/2 pounds of Red Alert toms (mostly yellowish or green because the plants are slowly succumbing to blight but they should ripen OK indoors.)
Handful each of Sungold and Sweet Million tomatoes - dozens more to come with any luck.
A 2lb 4oz courgette :ohmy: (how did that happen - I thought they were having a temporary rest?!) ::)
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First picking of runners. Really late this year. Probably get a frost next week knowing how the weather has been this year!!
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About a pound of lovely scrummy tomatoes - with lots more to come. And I found some spring onions that the rabbits missed.
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A carrier bag full of French beans ,and one of runner beans.
Two courgettes,rainbow chard and spinach,4 carrots 2 cabbage and some kale.
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Lots today :D Cougettes, gem squash, sweetcorn, anchocha and french beans from the plot. Tomatoes, aubergines, peppers and more french beans at home.
Even found a few alpine strawberries whilst weeding at home but they accidently fell into my mouth so guess I can't really count them :blush:
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Runner beans, courgettes, tomatoes, spring onions, beetroot, curly kale, perpetual spinach, rocket, lettuce, red chard, chillies, radishes, and rapsberries. Arrrrrgh - there is veg everywhere in my kitchen, and my freezer is full!!
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Courgettes, minipops, purple beans, (first) pea beans, lots of lovely ripe little tomatoes. :)
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A couple of courgettes and some broad beans.
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1lb of french beans, 3lb of runner beans, a handfull of toms and 8 cucumbers :ohmy:
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2lbs of victoria plums. Now the question is - plum jam or plum gin?
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Runner beans, climbing French beans, baby parsnips, Beetroot, spinach, tomatoes, cue, beefsteak toms
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Lots of Sungold cherry tomatoes from the greenhouse as well as courgettes round and long ones.
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Today a carrier bag full of runners and another of french beans, 8 courgettes, 7 cucumbers and 2 punnets of raspberries. Might grab my first parsnips for dinner tommorow along with a cabbage and cauliflower. Good times :)
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picked the apple tree.
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five courgettes, six patty pan squash and a cucumber.
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4 large courgettes, 2lb toms, a 1lb peas and 3lbs runer beans and 3 fennel bulbs
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Another row of Lady Christl yesterday - two left now. :) Today, courgettes, carrots, purple and green french beans and a few minipop corn.
Of note... two of the minipop had grown from points on two different plants where a cob had already been removed. Didn't know they displayed this cut and come again type behaviour :unsure: but they have been worthwhile growing this year, much better than last. :D
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Yesterday: minipop corn (as Arugula says, much better this year) courgette, raspberries, black berries and tomatoes
Today: runner beans - there are some new flowers today too :D - parsnip thinnings, leeks, celery & sage to lay under tonight's meat, and...... drum roll please.....one full size dudhi :D :D :D :D
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After nearly a week away there was quite a lot to harvest..........
Turnips, Runner Beans, French Dwarf and Runner Beans, Potatoes, Beetroot and Rhubarb.
From the Greenhouse.........Tomatoes, Peppers and Cape Gooseberry
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picked the apple tree.
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They look lovely ;)
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Picked the last of the french beans and broad beans and harvested yet more courgettes. Must only put one plant in next year.
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Rainwater. ::) Might get some chard in later...
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More runner beans... a few courgettes (I had let many get too large!), some potatoes from the bag (the yield is no where new as good as from the ground) and some more sungold and 1 beef tomato!
Hannah :)
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A big bowl of tomatoes and peppers, finally some more turned red ;)
Lots of purple climbing beans, now in the freezer, and a trombone squash for tea tonight :)
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Lots of purple climbing beans
I'm really impressed with these ;), they're doing far better (outdoors) than the green ones (I have one green plant indoors).
I have them in my lunch today, whenever I finally get that... :unsure:
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5lbs of runner beans, 6lbs of French beans,3 large marrows,a carrier bag of rainbow chard and spinach.
About 4lbs of blackberries,polka and all gold rasps.
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Purple beans, green beans, courgettes, beetroot, chard, tomatoes.
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A few sungold and gardeners delight tomatoes.
Purple beans? I did pretty well with long, thin, French style climbing purple ones last year. (You can see I've forgotten the name). This year not only have I lost the name of them there's no sign of the things growing anywhere although there was some prurple flower amongst the rest.
Lots of cobra (some from saved seed) but, despite putting in several of the purple ones I've no purple beans.Oh well.
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Purple have done the best here. :) I'd add this year, but haven't grown them before, a dear friend gave me some seed.
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Picked my first Black Sea Man toms today... not a crisp tom as I hoped.. a bit soft - eaten chilled raw with s&p..
Also picked my first 4 sweetcorn albeit a bit on the small side for supper tonight along with some courgette and leeks in white sauce - in separate dishes of course..
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Rainwater. ::) Might get some chard in later...
Do you use the roots as well Argula?
We chopped down the spring-sown stuff a couple of weeks ago as it was going to seed, and also sowed some more about a month ago, as they survive the winter (or did last year), and in March, the stalks are a very welcome addition to any plate!
The chopped stuff is sprouting nicely, and the new plants have romped away...
If the roots do anything edible - or soupable, then we'll use them!
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Might get some chard in later...
Do you use the roots as well
Not here but that isn't to say they aren't usable, I have never investigated... I'm quite happy for them to continue sprouting new stems as I harvest. :)
Not strictly related but on the subject of sprouting again, the minipop plant which has already grown two cobs (successively and successfully) from the same spot is sprouting a third from the same spot... :unsure:
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That's because you talked to them Arugula!
Always does the trick!
I spoke to my new peas today, and warned them about the possibilty of the mildew ghost, and they immediately sprung forth, and became real big pods...;0)
(That's not actually true Growster, is it, {Mrs G})
Er - yes, I did...;0(
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French beans,runner beans ,spinach,rainbow chard,carrots ,10 chillis, 3 marrows, 3
cucumbers,all gold and polka rasps and blackberries
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picked a punnet of raspberries that have gone into a nice crumble for tea.
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3 yellow courgettes
6 nice size beetroot
a cabbage
hand full of radish
2 turnips
bowl full of tomatoes
2 cuecumbers that is the last of them :(
Lettuce so all in all a good day harvest
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A couple of courgettes, gem squash, lots of french beans - I can recommend climbing bean Anellino Giallo or yellow shrimp bean :) After a slow start due to the weather, they are producing loads of lovely beans. Also chard, Aztec Brocolli and Autumn Bliss raspberries :)
Tomatoes and a couple of pointy red peppers from the greenhouse :)
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Potato's,cucumbers, 4 tomato's,chillis,polka and all gold rasps ,blackberries,French and runner beans
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A very large Black Sea Man tomato... into the fridge when I got home and now slices with some salt 'n pepper and a sprinkling of sugar... Wow so tasty.. I'm growing to love these toms...
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another 4 cucumbers, more runner beans and french beans, tons of raspberries which im currently sat eating!!!
Oh and a cauli to make soup with tommorow.
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1 cabbage
1 parsnip.
a few red toms and about 10 semi red, there going in with the bannana's to finish ripening.
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quite a bit over the weekend...
A handful of yellow tomatos for lunch on Saturday
A couple of large handfuls of purple teepee beans (very impressed by these - very productive) and a colander-full of chard, both eaten with tea on Saturday
Another cucumber on Sunday, for lunch, and two purple peppers and a few apache chillis to go into Sunday tea.
About 1.5lb of blackberries from the brambles around the local playpark while my girls played on the swings... half of which went into blackberry vodka, the other half will go into a pie today/tomorrow.
And a large bowl of (mostly green) tomatoes, to see if I can get them to ripen on the windowsill.
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Yesterday: potatoes, beans, lettuce, beetroot, spring onion, ordinary onions and lettuce.
And (as I forgot) raspberries! :)
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An acorn squash, a spaghetti squash, cucumber, assorted chillis French and runner beans
and 3 tomato's ( from the few plants that have not succumbed to blight).
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First salsify.
First leeks
Peas.
Spuds (Charlotte, which have been fabulous this year and deffers on the list for 2013!).
Carrots.
'Black Krim' toms.
Beetroot.
And anyone else who knows me...;0)
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Courgettes (one is now a marrow), carrots, turnips and the last 2 cucumbers
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Not been near the plot but I came home with six budgies today. :)
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Went up to the plot last night with our dog and came home with the first of the swedes and calabrese, plus a bag full of runner beans and french beans. Will be having some of them for tea tonight!
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Today's job is pick and preserve the red peppers :)
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers - where's the peck of pickled peppers, that Peter Piper picked?
:lol: I can't say it :nowink:
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Today's job is pick and preserve the red peppers :)
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers - where's the peck of pickled peppers, that Peter Piper picked?
:lol: I can't say it :nowink:
Picking peppers for preservation purposes is a particularly practical pastime!
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:lol: :lol:
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Courgettes, I think these might be the last, chard, tomatoes all going in the tea today with own potatoes and other not own veg.. and the first ripe indoor grown Scotland Yellow tomato.
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Quite a few purple and green climbing french beans and pea beans - more on the plants - these will go in the dinner a-hem curry tonight.
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Last of the blueberries, which flowered in early April - this is not a crop for those in a hurry although to be fair they have been about ready for a few weeks (a very forgiving fruit!)
More runner beans (they don't seem to have yet realised it was only 4C last night, although I suspect the penny will drop soon!)
A couple of sweetcorn cobs - still about 20 not ready yet and my bottom lip is already practising its big sulk routine, but you never know. :unsure:
Last of the outdoor blighted Red Alert toms to ripen indoors - it's been a struggle but quite pleased with the eventual yield under the circumstances. More ripe Sweet Million and Sungold from the greenhouse, and some half-ripe Inca plum toms to finish off indoors as there are quite a few still only half-grown and a long way from being ripe.
3 or 4 courgettes still developing, which is good as this year was definitely a no-glut year.
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Beetroot, kale, climbing and dwarf French beans, turnip, swede, pak choi, runner beans, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, spinach, chard and long purple aubergines.
Outdoor beefsteak tomatoes are ripening verrrrrrry slowly. Me thinks it will be green tomato chutney this year.
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Late haul from the greenhouse and raised beds at home :)
(http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m198/suec_02/Plot%20pictures/IMG_0304_zps95119c0e.jpg)
Few toms to ripen off, small frying peppers, long pointy sweet peppers, bush cukes and 2 dudhi :D The dudhi plant was a gift from Sunny and is growing like a triffid. I have as much of it cloched as I can but tendrils are heading off all over the shop :lol:
(http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m198/suec_02/Plot%20pictures/IMG_0305_zpsb1b86c9d.jpg)
A selection of apples from the cordon trees as well :)
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Harvested Rasberries,carrots,parsnips and desiree pots all for dinner tonight.
Then it rained.
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Yesterday a few rocket spuds & a big dish of mixed toms and
today a few raspberries
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A quick dash outside for the courgettes which need picking, these will go in today's tea. Surely the few left on the plants now, will be the last.
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About a kilo of mangetout to freeze, four green peppers, couple of cauliflowers, a white cabbage, some runner beans and a handful of carrots.
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about a kilo of raspberries.
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Harvested the last of the carrots and turnips, also a couple of patty pan squash and a courgette. Plot starting to look bare.
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Lots of gem squash and a couple of courgettes - can't be many more to come now. Climbing french beans, chard, anchocha and Aztec Brocolli. First of the autumn leeks - first time I have gown early ones and glad I did now :) Another lunchbox full of Autumn Bliss raspberries - again these are coming to an end but snaffling the last few for the freezer :)
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Some calabrese, cabbage kale ,runner and french beans.
Blackberries, rasps braeburn apples and one lonely Victoria plum.
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Dug up my entire crop of carrots - all four of them :(
Lost most too slugs i think, and noticed yesterday that something had been nibbling the tops of 2 of them.
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Lots of gem squash and a couple of courgettes
:D :D :D I hope you enjoyed them..
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A carrier bag of French beans and one of runner beans.Two courgettes ,calabrese ,rasps and
,blackcurrants.
The first sweetcorn, a bag of braeburn apples and 2 cucumbers
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Bag of lettuce leaves.
Artichokes
Potato's
Cherry Tomato's
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2lbs of runners and 1lb of french climbing beans: the last gleanings as we took down the beanframes. Better gleanings still, when I forked over the row by the side of the beans, a late and unsuspected harvest of 5 lbs of Victoria potatoes, missed a month ago when we thought we had pulled them all up.
A monstrous 3-legged parsnip, 3lbs in weight.
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A surprisingly good weekend harvest:
- more purple teepee and blue lake beans (enough for two meals)
- 4 courgettes
- the last of my hot banana peppers (unless the remaining tiddlers grow)
- three small purple peppers
- two vines of golden sunrise tomatos, with a mix of yellow and green tomatoes (hoping they all turn)
- 4 striped stuffer tomatoes (all 4 are green and hoping a week on a windowsill will help, as the rest seem to be rotting on the plant)
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Another large bag of runner beans and a big bag of raspberries. Still waiting for the large truss of 'Roma' toms to turn colour.
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Still harvesting the Sun Gold toms (comming to the end now) and had lots this year, plus last few runners, courgettes and an abundance of Autumn raspberries (still going strong). Also still picking salad leaves that I sowed late in hope of a mild Sept....got something right! :)
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Runner beans, French beans, Beetroot, swede, turnip, baby leeks, chard, two small pumpkins, an overgrown yellow striped courgette and green pepper.
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A bag each of runner beans and French beans ( nearly all gone now ),calabrese ,kale 2
cabbages,carrots.
7 Gem squash ,5 cucumbers, 2 sweetcorn, spinach,10 chillis and a tub of rasps
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Lots of yummy tomatoes, a green and a yellow sweet pepper (the yellow has a beautiful flavour), enough chilli peppers to make a pot of pickled peppers (really slow this year), and a bunch of spring onions.
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two baby hispi cabbages and a cauliflower. Also some spinach as I'm going to attempt to make spinach and ricotta canneloni.
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last of the beetroots. Some leeks and the last of the raspberries. Tasted one of our apples from the new tree :)
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On return yesterday from a short trip away, a couple of courgettes, one outdoor one indoor. Today, the first couple of Ambo potato plants, 2.66 Kg 930 g of which are the biggest two potatoes. This is roughly a fifth to a quarter of the Ambo crop. :) Still have one more row of Lady Christl to lift, but they're still coming out of the ground fine, there are more beetroot to lift still and I haven't even had a chance to check the french bean plants.
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Beetroot from the bottom of the garden and a huge bowl of tomatoes from the greenhouse. :happy:
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A small bowl of strawberries from the planter outside which is covered in flowers and green fruit and a small bowl of cherry toms from the hanging basket plants which are also outside. The greenhouse toms gave up the ghost a couple of weeks back, so go figure :wacko:
It's official - this season has been bonkers :lol:
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It's official - this season has been bonkers :lol:
We still have cherry toms growing and ripening. :nowink: Outdoors!
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a little courgette from the garden, found when I was clearing the last plants, and a couple of small ripening peppers from the glasshouse :)
I've brought the other 2 potted peppers into the back lobby to overwinter them again ;)
My Black Cherry tom is still battling the Botrytis to ripen a few more :lol:
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Beetroot, French beans, turnip, runner beans, courgette, mini- pumpkin, carrots, outdoor beefsteak tomatoes. :D
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Tomatoes, potatoes (from a volunteer under the greenhouse!), carrots, tarragon, marjoram, sage, raspberries, two pumpkins, two courgettes, 6 winter squashes, spinach.
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One last courgette and a bag full of gem squash. Some still soft skinned to eat as courgettes and my seed ones which have made a nice hard skin. They are sunbathing in the greenhouse now :) Also got some autumn leeks and black kale.
Came home and harvested lots of chillies from the greenhouse and some apples from my cordon trees, plus a few more confused strawberries :lol:
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just 2 tubs of raspberries today.
Grendel
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Sprouting broccoli.
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lifted the last of the pots finally, some runners that will be used for seed and a handful of peas.
Arugula, which variety of tomatoes can you grow outside up here?
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We have found varieties such as Gartenperle, 100s & 1000s etc in hanging baskets quite successful. :)
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After a weeks holiday I popped to the plot & picked 5 courgettes ,a spaghetti squash, 2 uchiki kuri ?,a big bunch of curly kale from the seedlings given to me by a forum member,some raspberries & a few potatoes-I couldn't be bothered to dig any more up as they are so few & far between & I hadn't got long.
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courgettes, purple beans, last of the onions, stray potatoes which were growing inbetween the peas, 2 beetroots and 3 mis-shaped white turnips
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Beetroot, carrots and around 20 butternut squash (not as large as usual but better than expected)
and two lettuce.
Chickweed - 1 handful and they loved it!!
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37 vegetable spaghetti squash,10 chillis,8 cucumbers,10 tomatoes and a tub of rasps.
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Leeks, Turks Turban Squashes, Courgette and Cabbage.
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A couple of indoor courgettes with more still growing.
A load of outdoor purple and green climbing french beans (and a couple of pea beans) and some indoor green ones.
Most of the red beetroot which I will roast as the oven will be on today.
A couple of globe artichoke heads, now cooked and ready for tomorrow's lunch salad if they're any good, with another growing but I don't know what the falling temperatures will do to it...
:)
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Tomatoes, tomatoes and more tomatoes - the nicest flavoured that I have had in years. Yellow peppers, celery and spring onions. :)
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Tomatoes, tomatoes and more tomatoes
Everything is coming so late this year.. I've still got yellow tomato plants indoors literally laden with fruits which are ripening and a surprising number on the outdoor ones too. Courgettes too. Its mad!
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2 sweetcorn ,some rasps calabrese ,kale and cabbage
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Dwarf French beans, Beetroot, runner beans, swede, turnip, pakchoi, strawberries!!
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Good one today
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4 sweetcorn ,2 cabbage ,kale , spinach ,swiss chard, calabrese,and some chillis
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pointed cabbage, leeks and sweet corn
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I've just lifted one of my jerusalem artichoke plants. Not a huge amount under it but around 4lbs. I'll leave the other 23 plants a while longer.
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Yesterday 19lbs of tomatoes, mainly green,5lbs now chutney,and 5 small courgettes.
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About ten carrots some resembling strange creatures! Chilies and a whole bag of weeds!
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Two pounds of runner beans!!!!
Took down the plants today and the late planted seeds have come good :D
Chillis, leeks, dhudi squash, courgettes, the last cucumber and a huge bunch of dahlias, plus calendula and the remaining sunflower
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More purple and green climbing french beans. The last two rows of Christls.
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Lots of herbs - rosemary, sage, parsley and marjoram. Turnips and beetroot, the last of the courgettes and a small pumpkin.
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Courgettes, yellow tomatoes, red tomatoes.
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Beetroot, carrots, pakchoi, peppers, cues, beefsteak toms, baby parsnips, baby leeks (both are thinnings), last of the outdoor aubergines
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The final picking from my hanging basket cherry toms - the plants look so awful I can't stand the sight of them any longer.
Hope I can ripen this lot :lol:
(http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m198/suec_02/Plot%20pictures/IMG_0306_zpsddbe2173.jpg)
Plus picked a few more confused strawberries - they are still flowering :wacko:
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I noticed two strawberries on a plant......... Huge and just starting to turn red. Can you believe that?
Picked perpetual spinach and a few Beetroot.
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At home:
- Found four very welcomed courgettes - 2 standard varieties and 2 globe shaped.
- Grabbed a couple more handfuls of French climbing beans (Cobra) for next years seed
On the plot the other day:
- Carrots, lettuce and beetroot
- Butternut squash harvested & awaiting collection in the shed
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Two rows of Cara and two rows of King Edwards
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2 hispi cabbage, 3 very tiny cauliflower and some potatoes.
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4 sweetcorn ,some runner and French beans .
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2 beautiful Cauli's, 6 Cabbage totalling about 20lbs probably at a guess.
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Now this is not pleasant and I apologise but........
............ one large spade full of fox "droppings" removed from the back of our little pink bungalow (LPG) across the road. >:(
Fortunately both my parents are slightly hard of hearing and sleep in until I go over in the morning so didn't notice the party of foxes frollicking and **** under their bedroom window over night. ::)
(The things us carers have to do....)
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Not as much of the fox excrement as you PP, but nevertheless there it was in all it's glory and after a heavy rainfall was not easy to 'collect'.
I'm trying to work out the position the fox(es) must have gotten into to leave the message in the middle of a net covering brassicas. The net is 3m X 2.4m and 1m tall!
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Fortunately I harvested veg not poo :)
Picked the Cheroke Trail of Tears drying beans and some chard from the plot. At home, picked the Ancho chillies, the last confused strawberries and a load of apples :)
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3 cabbages ,6 sweetcorn , 3 carrots , bag of kale , spinach , swiss chard and broccoli
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Yellow polytunnel tomatoes, red outdoor hanging basket tomatoes, purple outdoor french beans, green french beans from both inside and out. The last of the beetroot. With the cold weather now forecast to arrive in the next day or so, I'm sure this will be the end of the outdoor "summer" crops.
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And two courgettes. :D
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Two sweetcorn and a cabbage
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First swedes of the season, and the first I've grown :)
An 8 ozer for dinner and a rather bigger one to my plot neighbour, the master gardener, who confesses he can't grow swedes!
Also a weird collection of parsnips and a few ozs of baby carrots. The late summer sowing has at least been better than the spring.
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Four tomatoes (beginning to slow down now), yellow pepper and a bunch of spring onions.
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OK, that's it... pretty much everything finished!
Over the last week:
- a small handful of purple teepee beans from the early September sowing I made more in hope than expectation. So a good bonus!
- half a dozen radish
- the rest of my peppers: 4 green red-peppers and 5 green yellow-peppers, plus 4 tiny hot banana peppers
- the last of my chillis - about 30 apaches chillis, assorted green, greeny-red and red; and the last 4 scotch bonnet chillis
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Ditto Lazza with the peppers and chillies. Cleared the greenhouse out totally and harvested what was left.
At the lottie harvested Beetroot, baby leeks, (not so) baby parsnips and swede. Winter stews are called for and hearty soups.
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3 large dustbin bags full of leaves, courtesy of the street tree in front of my house. :)
Neighbours asked why I was clearing them up when half of them were still on the tree, so I patiently explained the difference between "harvesting" and "getting rid of" leaves (they are virtually non-gardeners so still gave me a funny look!)
Also more watercress (now in the greenhouse) and Inca plum and Sweet Million cherry tomatoes still ripening, despite the plants being three-quarters dead from botrytis and god knows what else! ;)
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Some more Ambo. This one looks as though it will make a few roasties tomorrow. :)
(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j85/argyll_photos/chat/DSCN0374-1.jpg)
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1 sweetcorn some runner and French beans.
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About 3lbs of wilja potatoes,1 head of calabrese, a small bag of curly kale, a bunch of chrysanthemums & a few last raspberries.
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Some more Ambo. This one looks as though it will make a few roasties tomorrow. :)
(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j85/argyll_photos/chat/DSCN0374-1.jpg)
Impressive :D :D
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Impressive :D :D
Its a little bigger than any we've grown before. :D About twice the size. :nowink:
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Yesterday, we picked the last tiny courgettes, leeks, some purple and round carrots, chard and turnips.
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A few more yellow tomatoes and spring onions. :)
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A big buch of baby leeks and 1/2lb of rasp's
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enough peas for my tea never picked any this late before
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Beetroot from the home veg plot....... (I must get to the allotment!)
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Purple mangetout? :blink:
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About half a dozen tomatoes (a long time since I have picked them this late) with more to come, peppers and spring onions - to be served with a salad for lunch today.
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Carrots and parsnips from the plot today and a nice pot of raspberry's.
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Last of the apples from the cordon trees at home. They have been late to ripen this year, but a good crop so I have been very lucky :D
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Teeny tiny kiwi fruits from garden.
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A couple of courgettes and some more ripe yellow tomatoes, both from the polytunnel. :)
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Last two hispi cabbage and six parsnips
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a handfull of raspberries much to my surprise.
Grendel
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More ripe yellow tomatoes, some spring onions.
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some oriental greens - so I guess it's a stirfry for tea ::)
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One carrot:
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c182/G4IAR/P1020141.jpg)
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One carrot:
And a child's shoe?
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Infant's.
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Of course. :D
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No shoes but:
On my first visit for weeks:-
a bucket full of carrots,
a wheel-barrow full of butternut squash (albeit small ones),
2 lettuce,
5 leeks
and a celeriac (but I've no idea when it should have been harvested)
No gold rings....
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and a celeriac (but I've no idea when it should have been harvested)
As soon as they are big enough,which should be by now. You can also leave them in the ground into the colder weather but you might wish to add straw to stop the ground freezing around them ifyou are concerned, although we had them in the ground into a very cold spell a couple of years ago, with no ill effects.
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and a celeriac (but I've no idea when it should have been harvested)
As soon as they are big enough,which should be by now. You can also leave them in the ground into the colder weather but you might wish to add straw to stop the ground freezing around them ifyou are concerned, although we had them in the ground into a very cold spell a couple of years ago, with no ill effects.
Thanks for the advice.... I'll leave them there for now. Big tops - small bottoms ::)
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Big tops - small bottoms ::)
Did you take stalks off from around the shoulders regularly while they were growing? That should help to reverse that growth imbalance situation..
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Big tops - small bottoms ::)
Did you take stalks off from around the shoulders regularly while they were growing? That should help to reverse that growth imbalance situation..
Again... thanks for this tip. I didn't / haven't removed any stalks. I've not grown them before as I dislike the taste - The plants were given to me so I thought I'd give it a go as my OH likes them.
Next trip to the plot I'll do a bit of pruning and wait & see. ;)
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I didn't / haven't removed any stalks. I've not grown them before as I dislike the taste - The plants were given to me so I thought I'd give it a go as my OH likes them.
Next trip to the plot I'll do a bit of pruning and wait & see. ;)
RHS advice (as they word it far better than I can):
As the plants mature, remove the outer leaves as they fall horizontal, to expose the crown and allow it to develop. Remove side shoots if they appear.
I'm not sure how beneficial this process will be so late in the growing season, but you could try.
:)
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Celeriac has become one of the veggies that I use most these days and will grow much more next year,they're so versatile.Roots are great grated raw in a salad or roasted ,boiled.Added bonus that a nice person told me on the cooking thread that I can use them instead of celery in stocks(green leaves that is).I think it's just the look of them that puts people off
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A couple of parsnips, leeks, Nero kale, last of the Beetroot.
Still got cues and peppers in the greenhouse and took green and red pepper today.
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Leeks, carrots, parsnip and chiogga beetroot
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A few trusses of unripe yellow tomatoes, a huge bunch of smallish carrots and some spring onions all from the polytunnel. It is now empty for an overwinter rest, apart from the french bean plant in the corner which is still soldiering on and producing beans, and most of the bed area has had a top dressing of horse manure (avoiding going near the bean). :)
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A bucket full of wilja potatoes,only 2 more rows to go(5ft rows) then to get the other bed of potatoes out.
Oh forgot, yesterday I cleared old pepper plants out of the greenhouse & found about 8 or 9 usable green peppers
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A row of Ambo potatoes.
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A row of Ambo potatoes.
Good to hear people are still harvesting / digging potatoes. I have 1/2 a row of main crop still in the ground. :blush: I've never left any in this late before so next job when I get the chance is to lift them and see. :unsure:
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I've never left any in this late before so next job when I get the chance is to lift them and see. :unsure:
Neither have we and they have been fine. :)
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Leeks, a cabbage and an ancient pattypan - a donation from nextdoor's plot :)
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Beetroot from the bottom end of the garden. :happy:
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Leaks, parsnips, carrots and lettuce.
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Leeks, carrots, parsnip, beetroot and, surprise surprise - two largish celeriac
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Three smallish pointed cabbage, about 2 dozen Brussels Sprouts and a nice broccoli about 5" in diameter. Not bad for end of autumn harvest, me thinks.
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Swede, Carrots, Parsnips for me today from a very wet plot. :)
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Wallflowers last week-end as well as leeks (that look wonderful and taste glorious having been missed by leek moth this year!!).
A bucket of late spuds and a bag of carrots.
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Some perpetual spinach, a few leeks and a swede :)
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You're doing well mumofstig... it's so damp here I've spent the morning doing paper-work. :(
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The last row of Ambo potatoes. I bought a bag of potatoes during the week, Maris Piper, as we weren't sure how many potatoes there were left in the ground. Plenty dug up today for dinner in 30 days time. :)
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The last row of Ambo potatoes. I bought a bag of potatoes during the week, Maris Piper, as we weren't sure how many potatoes there were left in the ground. Plenty dug up today for dinner in 30 days time. :)
30 days time? Seems an awful long time to wait for dinner!!
What's on then? Anything interesting?
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Sprouts -Trafalgar
Turnip - Petrowski
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Last of the carrots from polytunnel. Open ground too hard and frozen to harvest anything outside
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2 cabbages ,2 parsnips ,carrots ,leaf beat, kale and swiss chard.
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6 small turnips, 2 leek and a couple of beetroots
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This week I will mostly be eating my greens ... and reds and blacks :D
(http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m198/suec_02/Plot%20pictures/IMG_0365.jpg)
Red cabbage (young plants were a gift from Sunshineband :)), mustard greens, black kale and green cabbage.
As a bonus the chickens have a bag of outer leaves of cabbage to attack tomorrow as well :)
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This morning I've picked some chard (the outside leaves were wilted by frost but the inside ones were fine ;)) a swede, a small Minicole cabbage and a few skinny leeks :)
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Glad the red cabbage grew to an edible size, New Shoot, I shall harvest mine for the Christmas season :D
Today I had carrots, yes real carrots!!!! After several abortive attempts this year, I planted slug bait with the seeds and now I have Chantenat red cored that are lareg enough to eat, with Autumn Kings to follow :D :D :D Hurray!!!
Also brought home parsnips, maincrop leeks (Bleau de Solaise), oca and sage to go with the truckey thigh we have for dinner.
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A large cauliflower,a small calabrese & 2 large & 1 small parsnip. Most of the cauli is now residing in 6 jars of piccalilli, & some of the parsnips are in the freezer for Mr S for when I am away for a week.
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Beautiful Sprouts: Trafalgar
Succulent Turnip Petrowski.
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The last of the Chiogga beetroot, parsnips, leek and celeriac
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Leeks, cabbage, broccoli, parsnips
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Today I harvested the last of the Beetroot, Swmbo has the jars ready for the pickling.
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From the Greenhouse, Baby Carrots and New Potatoes.
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Lots of parsnips dug up & now frozen ready for Christmas dinner,just in case the ground is frozen next week.Also some leeks for the same reason.
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My very first Swede. Larger one is 1.6kilo. My only complaint is that some ***! has nicked half a dozen of the others.
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My very first Swede. Larger one is 1.6kilo. My only complaint is that some ***! has nicked half a dozen of the others.
They look lovely moose.
Shame there's people around your plot who can't be trusted but, on the other hand, it's a compliment to you (I suppose?) that they thought them the best and worth swiping. :unsure:
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Some brilliant Autumn King carrots 9" long, little bit of slug damage but not too bad.
hopefully parsnips and sprouts if this 6 hour shower passes!!
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Had a 2nd picking off the calabrese.
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nice bowlful of small sprouts, cleaned them ready for tomorrow, 2 small parsnips..still got the dirt on!!
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Two tree's of Sprouts and a couple of Parsnips today from the bog that is my Allotment. ;)
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Harvested Leeks, Parsnips, celery and a cabbage.
The celery is very stringy but goes well in a stew.
When digging crops water apears about 4 inches below surface.
What a mess but thankfuly no floods only standing water around us.