Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: mumofstig on December 31, 2013, 11:06
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Ready and waiting for tomorrow ;)
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Had a walk up to the allotment yesterday and picked 2 dozen sprouts, half a dozen leeks and a swede. :)
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A big bunch of Tuscan kale.
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parsnips, carrots, leeks and sprouts for dinner
onion from store for cheese sandwich
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half a kilo of PSB (the packet says it was summer PSB, I think it's confused!) which equates to £4.55 on my new 'what's it worth?' chart for 2014. :D
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Ocas, leeks, beetroot and parsnip to roast with bacon chops for tea.
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We pulled our last little gem lettuce last night..sprouts parsnips and leeks for dinner tomorrow and gave some to older gentlemen up the road, he gave us some beetroot in exchange. Clearing the last candle carrots tomorrow
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Nero di toscana and a small bulb of fennel - total of £1.35 to add to my yearly tot-up. :D
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Parsnips for lunch tomorrow.Rainbow chard still giving me a few nice little fronds.
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Leeks ... and a large swede, but when I dug it up it was hollow. I have a horrible feeling they are all going to be hollow, but I didn't have time today to look ( and ignorance is bliss for the moment) :(
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Potatoes, parsnips and a swede for tea.
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Leeks and sprouts. Leeks finally growing!
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Sprouts and a huge leek for tea. Yum.
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Took 4 swedes ,5 spring cabbage. And a big bunch of parsley from greenhouse :)
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I picked more kale today :)
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Leeks, Parsnips, Spuds & Onions. All for a lamb stew, only the meat & Dumplings that weren't from the plot.
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Celery, golden and white beetroot, parsnips, root parsley and some leeks for us and the last of my (disappointingly small) boltardy for a friend.
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leeks, parsnips, sprouts and potatoes from the shed
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A swede and a gigantic ( ;) ) celeriac
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Swede and kale :)
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Tuscan kale, a savoy cabbage, leeks and amazingly some tatsoi pak choi still going strong.
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Last of the Sprouts, Some leeks, small cabbages, swede, parsnip and a few carrots that are in the poly.
Mike
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A few celtuce leaves and a couple of spring onions
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A bunch of Tuscan kale
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2 Swede,and a :) big bunch of parsley from greenhouse
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Tuscan kale and leeks
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LEEKS!!
Not very exciting to some, but they were our very first harvest from the allotment! Lovely creamed leeks with our roast beef :)
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Loads of kale and a cauli
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A small cabbage, kale, couple of swede and some leeks :)
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Sprouts and leeks.
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4 Leeks 5 spring cabbage,1 swede,big bunch of nero kale :tongue2:
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Huge bunch of land cress
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A good load of sprouts, leeks, parsnips and baby carrots.
Also been picking a lot of Parsley, seems to be growing very well despite the soggy soil.
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Pulled the last of the carrots and beetroot from the poly so thats all clear ready for the new season to start. ::) Dug the parsnips up so i can finish digging for the broad beans to go in. Just got a few cabagges and loads of leeks left now to pull.
Mike.
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Pulled a couple of swede 5 spring cabbage :) and some more kale,just love the stuff :tongue2:
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Spouts, chard and agree about the parsley, have tons of Italian doing really well.
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PSB, nero di toscana. So far harvests of these and the pea shoots at home have been worth just under £13.00. Not bad with only a few plants in.
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Spouts, chard and agree about the parsley, have tons of Italian doing really well.
My parsley is doing very well ,got 12 plants in gh oh uses loads of the stuff and i use lots making garlic butter with it yummmm
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Managed to make it up after a couple of days with no rain. :ohmy: Carrier bag full of Red Russian Kale, half a dozen Romanesco caulis, 3 swede, bag of carrots, bag of parnsips, January King cabbage, a few leeks & brussels, a red cabbage and two sacks of spuds from out of the shed.
Should keep us out of Tesc* for a while!
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Picked a bucket load of Parsley yesterday, never had Parsley so good
Just picked in the battering wind baby carrots, leeks, parsnips and sprouts.
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Leeks, beetroot, parsnips, root parsley, turnips and sprout tops.
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Leeks and Tuscan kale for making soup
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We're down to just parsnips, sprouts and leeks now with onions, garlic and apples in store
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Sprouts, Spinach, chard PSB today from the lottie.
Cut up my last buttercup monster pumpkin today- only one now left to go, my large last Q Blue :(
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Still harvesting leek and parsnips. Plenty of onions, shallots, garlic and apples still in storage. Fed the last of the sprouts to the ponies, started to blow and we were sick of them, the sprouts that is :nowink:
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Had some leeks,swede,nero kale spring cabbage, bunch of rosemary
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Yesterday I dug some very tiny parsnips & some not much bigger leeks,today they will go in a big pan of soup
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Still harvesting leeks and parsnip and I noticed there are a couple of celeriac that the mice overlooked. I'd intended to pull up and compost the sprouts but they look far too good
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My last 2 leeks, some psb and my first rhubarb of the year - yum!
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Sprouts keep coming, nice harvest this year.
Leeks and parsnips.
Desiree potatoes from the shed.
Piles more parsley.
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Leeks and kale :)
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Over a kilo of PSB, parsnips, leeks, lots of spring onions and a baby cabbage.
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Dug up the last six parsnips and eight celeriac so I could manure the bed and turn it over. Still got a bed with about 20 late leeks to harvest. That's for next week when my back's recovered
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Piles of Sprouts and a few of the tops
Leeks and parsnips
Maris piper from the shed for the roasties today
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Green curly kale and leeks
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2 small cabbages and some psb :)
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Some leeks,sprouts,carrots,turnip and parsnips have a lot more to eat and really need the ground clear end of this month.
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Big cabbage, leeks,and a carrier bagfull of the lovely forced bright red rhubarb 8-14inches long going to make a crumble and some more jam yyyyyyyyyyyyyuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyy :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Last of my carrots and swede.
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Pulled the last dozen or so leeks 1/2 carrier bag of sprouts and last 8ft row of parsnips all to be frozen tonight
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Pulled the last dozen or so leeks
I did the same thing - I needed to fork over the bed ;)
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Me too 6 leeks as thick as your wrist 5 swed like footballs had swede for tea ,thought it would be very woody but not :)
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Yesterday harvested the last couple of parsnips, the last of the carrots (that hadn't exploded in the ground) a few leeks and some Tuscan kale. :)
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A dozen leeks.
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My first ever psb ! A basket full from just one plant. Really pleased as it's expensive in the shops. Going to try it with pork chops tonight and roast lamb tomorrow along with the last of the parsni.
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Last turnips from poly and some chard
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All the remaining parsnips, one huge swede, leeks, spring (last spring!) onions, PSB, and a large splinter in my thumb :(
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A load of leeks, still plenty left
Sprouts and sprout tops, but getting low on them now
Parsnips
First lettuce picking from January sowing in greenhouse
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Tuscan kale. Looks as if it will run to seed soon. Still waiting for the PSB!
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Lots of psb and the last 2 cabbages!
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Loads and loads of Italian flat leaf parsley and lettuce that made it through the mild winter- and I want the cold frame back now please :D
Ooh pea sprouts too.
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1st cut from cut and come again lettuce tonight
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Just parsley which didn't die over the winter
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Last weekend first PSB and first pull of Rhubarb lifted most of the leeks still have some Chard, Land Cress, Swede and Spring Onions. Tomorrow check soil temperatures and if OK then Onion sets and Potatoes are going in Brassica Seeds will be started and Shallots moved from Cold Frame into raised bed. Then again it might be snowing!
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Tons of Rhubarb from the back garden plants, thinking won't be able to keep up since I've got another 3 crowns at the lottie this year :D can you have too much Rhubarb?
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Leeks from the garden and 'spring' cabbage from the plot. Plus a fair few sprouting tops from the bolting cabbages and kale.
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Some psb and rhubarb
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The first of much PSB ;)
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More swede leeks and rhubarb
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PSB, lots of very fat leeks, spring onions, beetroot,
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Last of the parsnips, leeks and root parsley
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Last of the greenhouse PSB. Parsley, kale, some nice leeks and very decent outdoor celery from last season ! They were a bonus.
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Kale. This will be all I am harvesting for a while now. :(
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Took some massive sprouts and even bigger parsnips and 3 swede ;)
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PSB, Chard, Spring Onions, Leeks, Swede and some Land Cress. Planted Broad Bean Seeds and some Lettuce in cold frame.
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(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s184/judey_wooo/plot/767d70ed41fa71d6bb7cbbe952ae4be5.jpg)
Thats todays harvest
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The remainder of the leeks, the plot is now done for, and I suspect the next thing we'll be able to harvest is the early strawberries from the greenhouse.
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Last of the leeks and parsnips, spring onions and rhubarb.
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A dozen leeks ;)
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A few parsnips and leeks along with some cut and go lettuce and radish
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Last of the Tuscan kale, and hurrah, the first of the PSB. Plus some leaf beet, a red cabbage and a savoy cabbage that managed to last the winter.
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More PSB ::) :D
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Me too
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A few sticks of rhubarb .....I feel crumble is on the cards
Cheers HH
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PSB and rhubarb and some leeks.
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The last of the leeks, lots of PSB (drowning in it now :D) and some perpetual spinach
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Took the second picking of asparagus and another nice crop of forced rhubarb, why oh why did I not force the rhubarb before it is so much nicer ??? All part of learning I supose :D
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Just a bit off topic, no onions left had to go t a supermarket, not happy as I lost a lot last year .
But picked rhubarb
Dullnote
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Picked my first baby Pak Choi today and it's my first effort at growing them. It tasted lovely in my stir-fry :D
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Picked 12 spring onions,big bunch of parsley,bag of rhubarb :D
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I'm picking Joi choi pak choi and coriander leaf from my garden at home. On the plot today I picked some lovely Walcheren cauliflowers. I can't believe that I've finally cracked it with caulis :D
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I'm picking Joi choi pak choi and coriander leaf from my garden at home. On the plot today I picked some lovely Walcheren cauliflowers. I can't believe that I've finally cracked it with caulis :D
Oooh major jealousy about your cauli's CQ! :D
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Picked a few of the small leeks left
Almost last of the parsnips
Lettuce, radish and some small thinned beetroot
Mint for the lamb today and for the raita with a lamb curry on Monday.
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Our first ever harvest of asparagus. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. :D :D :D
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Our first ever harvest of asparagus. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. :D :D :D
Me too! Promptly polished off for dinner, nom nom.
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After three years of waiting, my grown from seed asparagus was harvested and eaten for dinner! :D :D :D
Also last of carrots and parsnips!
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Radish and 2 baby Pak Choi
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A big bunch of delicious perpetual spinach :D
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Took some more spring onions rhubarb and a big cauli :)
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PSB. Loads of it. Can't believe I was complaining about a lack of it a week or so ago.
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Lettuce, radish, last of last years chard and a mountain of rhubarb. ready for one of my favourite jams- orange and rhubarb
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Loads of rhubarb. More leeks.
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First sensible crop of asparagus and the inevitable PSB!
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Leeks, Lettuce, radish, some small early beetroot
Picked a bucket load of perptual spinach yesterday.
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the over wintering onions looked too nice not to pick, so I picked some for tea last night, and very nice they were, big spring onions
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Asparagus and over wintered spring onions.
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Leeks and Swiss chard to eat and loads of tulips to enjoy in vases at home :D
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Swede, Celeriac and also some Kale, Swiss Chard and Perpetual Spinach that are still hanging on in there :)
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(wait for it) SPUDS :lol: lovely early earlies swift from the pt mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm so nice and juicy sweet like an apple, straight :tongue2: from the ground, i shall dig them all up at end of the month will be growing them again next year,thank you to poundland ;) planted them in mid feb, 14 leeks, 3 spring cabbage 8 spring onion,bunch of thyme and parsley 8 cauli's :D
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2 leeks (yes still). Leek and potato soup for lunch.
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I finally got the last leeks off. Some were starting to bolt, but most were still fine.
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Rhubarb, PSB, chard, various herbs. And a few asparagus spears.
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Bunch of parsley,sage,rosemary and thyme last 2 dozen leeks bunch of spring onions :D
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Just asparagus
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Bunch of parsley,sage,rosemary and thyme :D
That's a song y'know!! :lol:
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Last of the leeks, more PSB and lots of rhubarb.
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PSB again. Pink Fir Apple spuds from daughter's new plot. They still look edible, not sprouting yet!
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More rhubarb ,parsley, lovage, :)
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Not much, just a large sprig of rosemary to go in the slow cooked lamb that's about to go on.
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Rhubarb, radish, lollo rosso, rocket and mustard greens from the greenhouse beds
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Our first sprouting broccoli of the year. It is supposed to be early purple sprouting, but I would not call this early. Also, one of the plants is green instead of purple.
Also had a few radishes.
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Radish,spring onion parsley :)
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Picked a load of rhubarb, spinach, lettuce and radish.
Finished picking the last of the leeks and just planted out next years crop in their place.
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PSB (loads), spring onions plus more Pink Fir Apple potatoes unearthed in daughter's new plot.
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Dug up the last of the leeks, surprisingly quit a good size & the last of last years beetroot as some were putting up flower stalks.
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Lots of PSB and was going to pick rhubarb but will get that tommorrow. A couple of winter cauliflower too
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Last of the PSB and perpetual spinach - it has finally bolted!!
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First new potatoes ( Winston) havested from the greenhouse today, they were planted on 21 feb also another cut of asparagus.
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PSB
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Rhubarb & a few very small parsnips that I had overlooked, they went in the leek & potato soup.
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Had some small whole broad beans yesterday (as per Nige Slater), ok but I'll wait for the furry pod stage as it's so much more fun :D
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PSB and small leeks from pots in the garden. Griddled the leeks and they were delicious :)
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Grilled leeks...that sounds sooo yummy. It will be awhile for my house to have that treat.
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Lettuce and radish today :)
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Broad beans :D
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Broad bean tops for greens (I've pinched the tops off because those little black fly blighters will be about soon) and leeks
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Pulled 5 garlic from the pt golf ball size,delicious in tonights curry so sweet,i will be pulling more as i need the room to plant toms,peppers aubs cuc's and sweetcorn ;)
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Raddish :tongue2: my 1st picking from my new home needed to sort a patch for quick growing veggies chuffed xx
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PSB.
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This weekend I had two radishes which I rinsed and ate straight away, and a good handful of rocket for my lunch.
This is my first ever harvest off my first ever allotment!!
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I lifted these bad boys yummmmmmmmmmmmm all these off 6 seeds :D (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/gallery/40538-110514222136.jpeg)
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I lifted these bad boys yummmmmmmmmmmmm all these off 6 seeds :D (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/gallery/40538-110514222136.jpeg)
Cool!
My potatoes are so late in they're barely leafing through the trench! ::)
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Rhubarb
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The first peas and courgette of the season, spinach, herbs (parsley, fennel,sage and rosemary) garlic and strawberries.
Spring veg linguine for lunch.
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Last of psb ;)
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146 leeks LOL
We obviously dont eat as many as we thought, they hadnt sent up flower heads are they still ok to eat or freeze as I cant eat that many in one sitting
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This weekend I had two radishes which I rinsed and ate straight away, and a good handful of rocket for my lunch.
This is my first ever harvest off my first ever allotment!!
It's great isn't it?!
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Peas, mini courgettes, spinach, carrot thinnings, chives, parsley and fennel, garlic all for spring veg pasta. Yum.
Iceberg, land cress. Healthier eating here we come! :D
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These:
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c182/G4IAR/P1030439_zps7c9e8133.jpg)
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they wouldn't have made it into my kitchen if they had been my - I love raw peas :)
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Yet more peas, spinach, garlic . :D OH had a cheeky furtle and found some nice taters. I told him off...there are bought ones to be used up in the fridge. Even so..... :tongue2:
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they wouldn't have made it into my kitchen if they had been my - I love raw peas :)
I was more restrained than I've ever known myself to be!
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peas already there quick are they in a greenhouse.
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First lettuce, asparagus, PSB
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peas already there quick are they in a greenhouse.
Have a look in my diary, starting from about here:
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=69457.270
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Lettuce and radish
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Picking as I weed, so far salad leaves....shared with the chooks as they have grown faster than I can use them. Land cress for tonight's soup. A couple of carrots for coleslaw, onion, garlic and the first beetroot of the year.
OH wants to help with the peas so they will come later.
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Spring onions. Erm...that's it
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PSB
Perp spinach
Ow onions
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12 garlic from the pt chives, and some bolted onions ;)
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Salad leaves and some great big spinach!!! ;)
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Garlic, onions, courgettes, spinach and sugar snaps (they didn't all make it to the kitchen) rhubarb and strawberries
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Picked a couple of lettuce and some really sweet baby carrots that I thinned out last night. The kids had eaten them within 5 mins of getting home :D Makes it all well worth it!!!
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A lollo rosso lettuce, a good handful of rocket and mizuna, a few spring onions and some carrot thinnings for the guinea pig :)
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5 lovely ripe English Strawberries :-)
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Onions, strawberries, salad leaves, new season chard, peas, herbs.
Caught OH picking and eating peas, as if I would ever do that! :lol:
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Radish, little gems and spring onions from the greenhouse, Broad beans,peas and some lovely arron pilots.
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Picked some more garlic from pt and gh, i know its not quite ready yet till july but it is big enough and i needed the room to plant peppers also dug up some early spuds pentland javelin from the pt and a (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/gallery/40538-220514223025.jpeg) and a couple of jap onions (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/gallery/40538-220514223150.jpeg) (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/gallery/40538-220514223640.jpeg)
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Last of leeks which had forgotten about as were in pot. Tiny but nice griddled.
Last of PSB.
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Spring onions, radish, rocket, lollo rosso, various oriental mustard leaves and the first of our sugar snaps :)
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Peas, carrots and strawbs. The chooks had half the spinach as it has bolted in the recent hot weather.
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5 big onions ,lovage, sage ,thyme,oregano,spring onions :D
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A few more spring onions, mizuna and some lollo bianco leaves
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Peas, mange tout and sugarsnaps all for the freezer, potatoes, onion, garlic, courgettes and carrot thinnings.
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Spring onions,garlic, strawberrys (from the pt) yummmmmmmmmmmmmm :tongue2:
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3 strawberries and some radishes
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Peas, spinach, carrot thinnings, courgettes, herbs, beetroot, onion and garlic
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Nothing today as been stuck in the office.. but I got about 15 nice big strawberries last night.
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More radishes :D
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Just lettuce today.
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My first picking of mangetout, just a handful for tea :)
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More peas, mange tout and sugarsnaps, potatoes, carrots, courgettes and the first pick of broad beans. Feeling lucky to have so many lovely veggies.
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Baby carrots, rhubarb, a few really small new potatoes and some garlic scapes :D
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Taters, carrots, mange tout, sugarsnaps, peas, onion, garlic, courgettes (read marrow!) and spinach.
First time ever I have had so many peas I am fed up picking and freezing them. Lovely! :lol:
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Spring onions . Emptied one of my potato tubs to get a lovely crop of Accent. Hope they are as tasty as last year.
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Garlic and scapes,4 iceberg,onions a few strawberries,spinach :D
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Hand in the sacks and tubs and pulled out the first of my Aaron pilot yesterday and some more today.
Had some asparagus on Sat too, last I think.
Picking loads of mint, parsley, basil, oregano and chives.
Some rhubarb and piles of lettuce.
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Lots of long beetroot, potatoes, just a few peas (thank goodness!) boad beans, courgettes, onion and garlic. A few dirty strawbs which the chooks enjoyed.
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I dug up my first root of Aran Pilot on 30th May, basically because I'm so impatient! I was surprised at how many I got from one root - although they were small (but beautifully formed!). I weighed them when I got home and there was just over 2 lbs. We had them today for lunch - delicious - there's nothing like the first potatoes of the season is there?
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First 5 strawberries - yum yum
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our first radish today,my daughter collected them herself (7 going on 70),she is over the moon.i sowed several types to keep things colourful.
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Double handful of strawberries.
They didn't make it home. :)
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Peas, broad beans, carrots, onion, garlic and more courgettes. Hey ho, they will go in the freezer with the rest.
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yesterday I roasted two bulbs of green garlic, a couple of small overwintered red onions and a leek, with shop bought new pots. Al lovely, looking forward to my own spuds in a few weeks.
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Pulled 80 garlic yesterday from the gh's and pt just going up to do some watering indoors ;)
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A punnet of strawberries and enough rhubarb for a crumble. A few salad leaves and radish. Things are slow this year.
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Pulled 12 onions another 20 garlic 6 iceberg and some herbs ;)
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5 strawberries :D
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Pulled up all the garlic to try and stop the rot, an onion, handfull of peas, broad beans and spinach for tea.
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1 tub of accent potatoes 7lb 6oz from four seed spuds . Very chuffed with that. Could have harvested sooner as most are duck egg size.
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Strawberries :D A decent bowl full as well :D :D :D
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Swiss chard
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broad beans, salald, strawbs & rasps :D
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Peas, broad beans, courgettes, chard, onion, carrots and two large bowls of flat leaf parsley, chopped and frozen for winter.
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Strawberries :)
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2 strawberries and some lettuce
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First cucumber of the year - oh yeah! :D
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Carrots, a pathetic amount of broccoli, lettuce and a bunch of mint
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Carrots, red onion (immature!) salad leaves, land cress, beetroot and potatoes. (The Colorado beetle has struck...but it is too late, our taters are ready!)
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My first strawberry. Yum-but hopefully the rest will be a bit more tasty...
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Lots of beetroot, spuds, strawberries onions and garlic ;)
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Picked my first ever grown crop of swiss chard.
Lettuce and radish.
Good load of aaron pilot.
Yesterday, picked a good bunch of basil oregano, mint and parsley.
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More strawberries, one plant of spuds (had plenty!) and some baby garlic
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Charlotte potatoes. Could have done with being left a week or two more but will go well with the roast lamb shoulder.
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Radishes. Very good too.
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A few good, large spicy radish, various salad leaves, a handful of small carrots, a beetroot, and the first ever pak choi I've been able to grow without it bolting!!! :D
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A handful of raspberries ... but ssshhhhh don't tell anyone ;)
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Garlic, lettuce,
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Strawberries, lettuce, mizuna, radish and pak choi.
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Onions, beetroot, a bucket and a half of broad beans, the last of the peas, a mountain of chard, leaves wilted, thin stalks chopped and wide stalks left long for braising, all frozen. Must do the same tomorrow.
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Broad beans, strawberries, red currants, mint, nasturtium leaves and flowers. First proper harvest of summer! :D
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Broad beans loads, perp spinach, ow onions.
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Our first three cucumber, onions, chard and more broad beans.
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Chopin new potatoes, couple of lettuce a few beet.
Cheers Hh
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courgettes, broad beans, chard, spinach, onions, mint and parsley.
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A decent batch of strawberries-delicious!
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Garlic scapes
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Much excitement, our first cherry tomato. Also a cucumber, courgettes, broad beans, onions, chard, rhubarb, carrots and taters. Also picked a couple of borlotti to chuck in the braised veg.
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Just picked four pounds of broad beans weight in pods. Loads on but all at different stages was hoping to put some more later corgettee in here
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Much excitement, our first cherry tomato
Please describe the experience .... slowly and in great detail :nowink:
Picked another 3 iznik cukes, they're certainly more prolific than the la diva about 6:1 so far I think,a handful of dwarf purple beans and the few raspberries the birds had left me :mad:
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A pan full of snowball turnips :D.
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New potatoes, mint, mange tout, broccoli, garlic, carrots and a courgette. Very pleased with myself today :D
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Loads of wizzard br beans, perp spinach lots of green bits for salad and a few alpine strawberries.
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More cukes - 4 Iznik and 1 la diva. Having never actually managed to get the miniature ones to fruiting stage before Im not sure if Im picking them too soon? :unsure: Grazed on a few more raspberries, none of those have made it to the kitchen yet :nowink:
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Strawberries, broad beans, mangetout and ............... drum roll please ........... a fig 8) It didn't last enough to get a piccie :blush:
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First crop of anyas and amongst them Anya the potato lady :-)
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Lardman, they look fine to me. I grow the small ones.
The tomatoes (four now) are firm and tart and sweet and very tomatoey
Today I am beaned out. A crate of broad beans, far too many courgettes, some peas, land cress, parsley, carrots, potatoes, just over a pound of french beans, two pounds of young borlotti, onions and spring onions. Next door gave me a khol rabi.
I do enjoy a huge plate of mixed fresh veg! :lol:
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1st of the broccoli, chives, turnips, cress.
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Dug up all the garlic - quite small but perfectly formed (not bad considering it has been rust ridden since Feb), a couple of onions, peas and strawberries
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Spuds, strawbs, garlic, onions cucumber, beetroot, lettuce, ;)
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Yesterday
3 ripe strawberries from the hanging baskets in the greenhouse.
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Just picked the first load of broad beans.
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More cukes - 4 Iznik and 1 la diva. Having never actually managed to get the miniature ones to fruiting stage before Im not sure if Im picking them too soon? :unsure: Grazed on a few more raspberries, none of those have made it to the kitchen yet :nowink:
How have you got cukes already!! :ohmy:
Mine are only meant to get that big and they're so tasty and I use one in 2 meals which is perfect!
You'll need the cucumber soup recipe in a minute ;)
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We had cucumber soup for lunch....yum. I call it tzatziki soup so OH knows what I mean. It is just that with added water and salt out here in BG.
Just a few toms, a small cue and herbs today.
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Another 5lb of strawberries. 57 garlic came home last night, 1 lettuce, meant to bring home some rhubarb and forgot.
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Lardman, they look fine to me. I grow the small ones.
Ta. I wasn't 100% as there seems to be a lot of flesh and very little seed area.
How have you got cukes already!! :ohmy:
;) not telling - It's a secret :lol: I've picked another 2 iznik and 1 la diva today. ::) Also some raspberries, some green leafy and few purple dwarf beans. I'd trade them all for a tomato.
Mine are only meant to get that big and they're so tasty and I use one in 2 meals which is perfect!
2 meals ? you're having a laugh ! I've been munching 2 a day out the fridge like apples and then doing stuff with the rest.
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Ikg of strawberries so made first jam of the year 5 small pots.6 heads of broccoli,new potatoes,2 courgette and bag of mangetout.
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First strawberries, all 7 of them, and 3 winter onions.
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New potatoes, a lettuce and some garlic scapes.
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Munched my way around the garden for brekkie. Strawbs, a few blueberries, a few raspberries, and my Xenia goosegogs have started to turn now. :tongue2:
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Mine are only meant to get that big and they're so tasty and I use one in 2 meals which is perfect!
2 meals ? you're having a laugh ! I've been munching 2 a day out the fridge like apples and then doing stuff with the rest.
I can slice one of mine into 2 salads - that might be in one day - I do love cucumber :D
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Just strawberries here. (New patch - late getting started)
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Strawberries, winter onions, artichokes, salad, some garlic. :)
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The last of the broad beans.....at last! A hand ful of peas, need to take the plants out or we will never see the end. A load of courgettes, plus two marrow sized ones which went straight to the chooks and geese. French beans. Chard. A load of land cress destined for almond pesto with some of last years' almonds given by a friend with a tree.
A couple of juicy, tart and sun warmed tomatoes. Seem to have lost them on the way to the kitchen. :lol:
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Some new potatoes and strawberries
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Another iznik, the last for a bit, a few more purple french beans, some leafy stuff and the now customary raspberry graze.
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Pulled more garlic,half gallon bucket of strawberries,kestrel spuds,basil amd oregano ;)
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First pick of both runner beans and local yellow beans, french beans, courgettes, tomatoes, cucumber, potatoes, chives.
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1 of each, iznik, la diva and the first carmen , ½ a marg tub of raspberries and the first cucamelon - meh.
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More delicious br beans loadsa onions.
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27 kgs of pentland javelin, lots of strawbs,spring onions and jap onions,6 cauli's,and ;) basil
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Small dish of strawberries some radish and a beautiful carrot but keep it to yourself or they will all want a bite :D
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4 radishes and some strawberries. First courgettes nearly ready!
This thread really makes me feel very inadequate....all this talk of cucumbers already :nowink: :lol:
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Mini cucumbers, been harvesting them for 3 weeks now way better that the full sized Cucs, Strawberries 3 different varieties can't remember which they are but one has pink flowers and produces "lantern shaped" fruit, Radishes and lettuces of various types.
I think that the Strawberries are 2 weeks earlier than normal this year, the outside berries nearly caught up with those that spent a few months in the Greenhouse, I normally have a crop of Strawberries, outside berries, around second week of Wimbledon.
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Chives, parsley, onions, chard, flipping courgettes, carrots, an apricot. :D
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Currently new spuds, courgettes and asparagus plus some lettuce.
Getting ready to harvest black currents need to wait till 95 % look ripe ? MONDAY?
Cheers HH
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HH have you bought one of those berry combs? Good for Blackcurrant harvesting not perfect but better than hand picking!
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Lifted the first Pentland Javelin last night, just enough for two of us from the one plant. Delicious with broad beans, beetroot and turnip. Oh, and sausages!
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5lb of new potatoes and a big bunch of mint to be cooked up for a family BBQ tomorrow :)
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Chard, pea shoots, beetroot thinnings and a few strawberries. Not much, but it was delicious :)
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Runner, yellow and flat beans, spring onions,courgettes, tomatoes and a huge bowl of land cress now made into pesto for the freezer.
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Sharpe's Express and Pentland Javelin new potatoes. A couple of bulbs of garlic to see if they are ready yet. Not quite. Strawberries. Some Radar and Electric overwintered onions.
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Forgot....the first raspberry! Just the one. :lol:
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Pulled my container garlic today because I needed the containers for my tomatoes :nowink: That's the problem with such limited space, autumn sown plants are rushed out to make way for summer plants final planting.
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Lady christal spuds plus purple sprouting broccoli
Cheers HH
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Spuds,cucumber,spring onions,lettuce,onions,strawb's,spinach,beetroot,cauli,cabbage,artichokes, :)
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The usual breakfast munch (strawbs, rasps, blueberries & sugarsnaps). All the white winter onions and shallots are out (onions not great, but better than last year) and dug one Rocket spud (enough for tea). :)
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After watering the plot, picked a tray of strawberries ;)
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Big picking yesterday of aaron pilot and broad beans.
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All my autumn planted onions now pulled and drying in the sun. Might get some green manure seed in if it will grow between now and october
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Radar onions, some pathetic beetroot, a radish (it was the last of a row that ripened late), and a lovely All Year Round butterhead lettuce.
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spring onions, radish, mixed lettuce leaves, Arran pilot potatoes, strawberries, raspberries, broad beans.
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Nicola potatoes, and first courgettes! We're away !
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Can't remember without checking if they are 'Ratte' potatoes or 'Belle de Fontaney' - they look like Belles.
The strawbs actually made it home today.
The broad beans are teeny still inside but yummy raw in a salad :)
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kilo of strawbs, broad beans, radishes and the first courgettes - it's officially summer!
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Saucepan full of Arron pilot and a bucket of broad beans,
Mint, lettuce, swiss chard, carrots and radish.
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A cos lettuce
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Potatoes, courgettes, chard, onions,French beans, carrots
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All the Garlic, rust, Strawberries, Lettuce, Cucumber and Radish
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All the garlic (a few days ago now), 4 courgettes, couple of kilos of strawberries, radishes, broad beans, the fisrt sugar snap peas, more nasturtiums for salads.
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Beans, beans and more beans.
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Parsnips,spring and normal onion,strawbs,rasps,caulis,cabbage,lettuce,beetroot, ;)
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Strawberries, onions and broad beans.
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A few beans, a load of carrots and pulled the red onions.
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[Last night] French beans, 4 x mini cucumbers and 1 x mid sized cucumber, beetroot, turnip, half the shallots, 1 red onion, 4 potato plants and a few pea pods that didn't make it past the PT door! :lol:
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A mushroom tub of raspberries, a carmen cuke and a handful of dwarf purple beans and a couple of cucamelons.
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1kg of Lady Christl, 500g of Pentland Javelin (one plant of each), 6 strawbs and 3 pea pods snaffled by the kids.
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Lots of beans, gigantic courgettes for the animals (haven't picked for two days) windfall apricots for chutney, tomatoes and cucumber
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50kgs of kestrel spuds, bucket of assorted spuds,12 trays of strawbs,2 trays of rasps,cauli,spring onion,cabbage,cuc's courgette,beetroot :D
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Overwintered onions, kale, last of last year's chard, strawberries.
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Chard, beans, parsley, spring onion.
And four raspberries.
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First baby cuke - they're small but delicious !! :D
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Blast, just collected a bucket of courgettes and four cucumbers! What the birds don't eat (courgettes) will have to go on the compost heap. I have a crate ful in the freezer already and there are masses to come. Such a waste when they could be used. :(
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First strawberries. Yay! Courgettes. Anya potatoes. Spring onions.
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I nearly forgot about the few strawbs and raspberries that disappeared straight into my tummy this evening!! :lol: :lol:
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More strawberries, nom nom :lol: Salad, spring onions, beetroot, radish. Chicken salad tonight with starwberries and cream!!! :D
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Another bucket full of strawbs and 2 tubs of rasps :tongue2:
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Strawberries, redcurrants and the first few raspberries. Shallots and broad beans.
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Avoiding the beans........a bucket full of plums, given to the neighbours for making their rakia. They used the plums last year but the dogs were fenced off and they came and got them themselves. They will not come in with the dogs there.
The first pepper of the season, tomatoes, cucumbers, land cress, carrots.
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FIRST SPUDS!!! :D :D 3.35kg from 3 seed spuds planted inna bag on 23 March.
Happy days!
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FIRST SPUDS!!! :D :D 3.35kg from 3 seed spuds planted inna bag on 23 March.
Happy days!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!! :D
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Another punnet of raspberries.
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A bowl of Gartenperle tomatoes :)
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Charlottes, mangetout, sugarsnaps, petit pois and broad beans. Here's the evidence. :D
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Tomatoes, three sorts of beans, parsley, salad leaves, land cress,courgettes.
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What I would call my first proper harvest since I got my plot 16 months ago. I had new potatoes and mint, sugar snap peas, carrots, baby parsnip, broad beans, a few turnips, 3 large lettuce, a few strawberries and a handful of raspberries. I am a happy bunny :D
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Accent potatoes. Courgettes. Spring onions. Tomorrow I will be harvesting chard, more of the above, maybe some nero de Toscana to go with a very nice rib of beef bought from my local butcher. Don't wake me in the afternoon ;-)
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1 very thin carrot , 1 carmen cuke.
The blackbirds have written their name in my raspberries and everything else is just sitting there doing nothing :wacko: .
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Bucket full of broad beans
Aaron pilot
A Turnip
Lettuce
Will pick a bowl of gooseberries later on today
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This year's garlic crop. Some more overwintered onions, shallots, broad beans and a couple of lettuces.
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A few beans, just enough for tea (tried not to look) parsley and chives, chard
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First ever crop of potatoes :D Tasted great with tonights roast chicken
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Lifted a garlic bulb for a visiting French friend, when it grows this music grows very nicely :tongue2: I hate to part with it, but at least I know it's going to a good home ;)
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Mountain of borlotti, podded and frozen for those times I forget to soak, the rest will dry. First of the garden tomatoes, cherry and small beefsteak, lucky to get any. Cucumbers, a washing up bowl of flat leaf parsley, bucket of carrots, french beans, rhubarb. A bowl of cherry tomatoes from the troughs, bucket of windfall apricots.
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Lifted the rest of the music today. Less than ½ of what I expected and wanted, there's really only enough for next years seed.
What's there is very nice so the netting really has made a difference. :D
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Radish, spring onions, lettuce, broad beans, potatoes, raspberries, the first dward French beans, courgettes, and loads of gooseberries (ouch!).
I can't believe how everything has grown since Sunday. Should be some peas soon, they are later than planned because Mr and Mrs mouse managed to eat every one of my first two sowings.
I just love it when you come home from the plot with lots of different things, then lay them out in the kitchen and 'gloat' over them. All the hard work pays off in the end.
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Harvested salad, potatoes, onions and garlic.
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Strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants, gooseberries (painful). Pentland Javelin and Charlotte potatoes. Smaller crop than expected as I had to cut the haulms down 2 weeks ago because of blight. A lovely lettuce, overwintered Radar onions and loads of Wizard field beans.
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Too many French and runner beans, too many courgettes, tomatoes, land cress, a few raspberries.
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8.4 kg Lady C spuds, a few raspberries/strawberries/blueberries, 3 courgettes (large) and 2 big bags of broad beans.
Oh and my hen day - so 8 eggs so far ;)
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About 60 of my most rust affected garlic. Reasonable yield nevertheless. Also one Accent potato plant giving 8 cricket ball sized spuds. Got loads to go so no idea what to do with them ! If my King Edwards go on like that then they should be the size of my shoes ! Wow. Think of those great big chunky chips !!!
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Returned to lottie later, harvested some green and yellow french beans for tea.
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Wednesday
Lots of raspberries, early season are definitely not as nice as mid season & not as big.
First leaves of Swiss chard
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5.6kg broad beans in pods, 1.3kg strawberries and 500g red gooseberries.
Lovely! :D
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Small broad beans, first new season chard, some black currants. Tiny courgettes.
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Lots of potatoes: 2kg Charlotte and 2kg Red Duke
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The last 5kg of broad beans, so 15kg in total. Must try to stagger planting next year because it's too much all at once like this. The freezer will be groaning with beans! Plus a large courgette hidden round the back of the plant.
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French and runners, courgettes, cucumbers, tomatoes, chard, apricots and small pears
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Verona Cabbage ,pointed cabbage,leeks,peas broad beans,cucumbers,strawbs,rasps,white and red currants,parsley. ;)
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Peas, chard, broad beans and aaron pilot potatoes
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5 'Passandra' mini cukes :)
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I only went this morning with the intention of picking a few dwarf French beans. After the rain things had burgeoned, and I came away with: my first few carrots (of the very few that germinated), two heads of calabrese, dwarf French beans, more broad beans, two containers full of gooseberries, radishes, rhubarb, mixed salad leaves and a couple of little gem lettuces. I was thrilled to bits - I love this time of the year.
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3kg of Lady Christl potatoes from 3 seed spuds in a bag, some eaten within the hour as a taste test with charlottes. I didn't think that I would be able to taste a difference, but I really can! Both very nice though charlottes were a slightly heavier yield.
As soon as it stops raining I'm going back up the hill for some more. :)
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More Accent potatoes. Never had earlies so big ! Only about 6 to a plant but all baking size. And that is typical across the different varieties I have grown this year. Except Anya of course. We just won't get through half of them. Luckily no slug presence. Yet. Wonder what sort of chips they would make. Also Picardy and Early Purple garlic. Picardy on the small size but Early purple made up for it with some lovely big bulbs.
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Plenty of broad beans, a few beetroot, sugar snap peas, raspberries, a courgette and 2 little gem lettuce
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Stroked the soil and a handful of Rooster maincrop appeared, will be lovely roasted today
More aaron pilot potatoes
First few burpless cucumbers picked
Piles of broad beans
A large Golden Acre summer cabbage
Will pick some lettuce, beetroot and radish later today
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Broad Beans, Gooseberries, black currents, raspberries, strawberries, potatoes, mint, parsley, rosemary, basil, sage, french beans but just two measly pea pods
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Yet more courgette (average 6 a day) aubergine, peppers, tomatoes and cucumber. Picked one of the large pumpkin, it was 9.6kg the 2 plants have 4 more growing so as this one was scorched from the sun I thought I would give it the chop. Plums will be picked tomorrow for jam making. The first figs, Breva, were great this year, but have finished, just the normal figs coming- very small and not up to much. All our potatoes were dig up about a month ago, do not know the type, they just sell ´seed potatoes´ here, they are red sknnned. They went in late, as the ground was so wet, but we have enough to last us a few months, very tasty they are too.
Pamela
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I harvested my first lot of potatoes: 550g of Charlottes grown in 2 bags. Not the best yield, but they were leftovers found at the back of the cupboard and planted, rather than seed potatoes. I've alternated between disappointed over a small yield, and elated as they're the first lot of potatoes I've ever grown! :D
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Raspberries, carrots, mangetout and turnips for today's dinner. :nowink:
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Picked, podded and put in freezer another kilo of field beans, plus the ones we had for tea. Nearly half a centimetre of grot pushed back under my thumb-nail, ouch. Last minute dash up the plot in the middle of the tennis to get parsley for sauce for the beans! Plus a large handful of Shiraz mange tout which have survived somehow in the back garden scrambling up the miscanthus, stir fried for tea.
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27kg sack of kestrel spuds and some massive onions ;)
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Picked, podded and put in freezer another kilo of field beans, plus the ones we had for tea. Nearly half a centimetre of grot pushed back under my thumb-nail, ouch. Last minute dash up the plot in the middle of the tennis to get parsley for sauce for the beans! Plus a large handful of Shiraz mange tout which have survived somehow in the back garden scrambling up the miscanthus, stir fried for tea.
Do you struggle to get the black bean grot off your hands?
It's like a dye on my skin! ???
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Just collected the following this morning
Spuds, beet root, lettuce, courgettes& broad beans.
Surprised the keel slug who was half way into one of the large potatoes I am afraid he was extracted and dispatched !!
Cheers HH
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2 more courgettes - 5 total so far ;)
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Seven cucumbers (another seven given by a neighbour!) courgettes, carrots, beetroot, spring onion, runner and french beams, a few raspberries, chard, tomatoes/
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Raspberries,yellow and green courgettes, beetroot,caulis,cabbage,spring onions,fennelpeas :tongue2:
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2 lovely big lettuces :)
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About 60 lovely Albigensian garlic. Just the Provence Wight to go now . No sign that the rust has affected them at all.
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One lovely looking first ever grown elephant garlic!
Pile of red onions
Small handful of strawberries
Will dug up new potatoes tommorrow
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Blackcurrants. Lots of blackcurrants. First peas - didn't make it back home. Some spuds and some chard, spinach and kale.
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More mangetout and raspberries, the broad beans(sown late!) are nearly ready :nowink:
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In amongst the ongoing potatoes, onions, rapberries etc, guess what ?!
My first parsnip of the season, and what a lovely large specimen it is too. I shall be eating it shortly. 9 July is a record for me for outdoor parsnips. With the weather we've had, this year's crop will be the earliest and biggest ever. If they keep growing like this, I will still be eating them the Mid Winter after next.
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2kg of blackcurrants from one Ben Connan plant, and that was only about 2 thirds of the bush! I now have acheing shoulders from topping and tailing them all. Raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, peas, onions, lettuce and field beans and 1 small yellow chilli pepper.
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My first tomato, shared with OH and carrots broad beans and courgette at the weekend.
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My first tomato too yay! Just the one mind.( sungold )....Also courgettes and strawberries. Last of the garlic. (Provence wight)
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My first beetroots(amongst other things). :D
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New potatoes arron pilot, broad beans
My first ever Helda Beans, new crop this year.
Sweat peas for the vase
Yesterday for a salad, radish, lettuce, beetroot, chard, spinach and lettuce
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Courgettes, marrows :lol:, beetroot, carrots, beans, cucumber...another five :ohmy:, tomatoes, mint, parsley, chard and the first summer psb. Looks good but smells a bit cabbagey....
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Beetroot, peas, broad beans, raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries, strawberries and turnips.
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Tomatoes, cues, courgettes runners and French, a few windfall purple plums, land cress, beets, okra and an aubergine.
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5 courgettes, 250g leaf beet, and 1 tiny cherry tomato.
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Nothing today but yesterday I had a bag full! A couple of parsnips just to see what was going on with them, 8-9 fabulous carrots, a handful of French beans, a few peas and 5 raspberries that didn't make it home.
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First two aubergines, a couple of peppers, courgettes and loads of beans to give away, tommies and chard.
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Potatoes- Lady Crystal,Salad Blue, & Lady Balfour. The courgette fairy visited for the first time this year & I ended up with about 6 :lol:. All the gooseberries,not weighed but a good 6lbs,raspberries,blackcurrant & red currents, first of the beetroot, broad beans & a handful of young chard leaves for tonight's salad. Oh & a golf ball sized lemon/apple cucumber from the greenhouse, oh & a gherkin from the plot
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Yesterday - 2 more courgettes and 5 mini cukes
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Sunday picking for the Roast beef lunch and cucumber sandwiches for tea
Helda beans, runner beans (first picking this year), broad beans
Turnip and carrots
Maincrop roosters, a scraping of the top of the soil on the potato plot
Cucumber
Sweat peas
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Broad beans, red onions (last of overwintered), beetroot, pointy cabbage, peas and raspberries.
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A bucket and a half of tomatoes of various shapes and sizes. Chives and carrots.
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3 more corgettes, 3 lettuces, a load of blueberries, 2 big bags of broad beans and 7 baby cukes!! :ohmy:
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Woohoo. First decent fruit harvest of the year (following the weevil-led demise of my strawberries). 400g of raspberries picked on Saturday.
And a couple of bowls full of mizuna and rocket.
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Six courgettes (why am I growing four plants for just the two of us), lots of spring onions and on Saturday I picked the first tomato of the season. This is the earliest ever for me as normally I am lucky if I manage to pick the first in early August.
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2 courgettes and ignored the dwarf beans which are dripping with pods for harvesting. Will get them later tonight.
Bean surprise for tea perhaps?
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Lots of new potatoes and pot of goosberries.
Cabbages ready so one of those next visit. x
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Broad beans, peas, a pak choi, some red spring onions and radishes.
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First time harvesting potatoes today. They had another four days left but I noticed blight on one or two of them this morning so pulled the lot.
The result of five 35 litre containers, four potato swift and one an unknown blue type I saved, two spuds per container.
I understand what they mean when people say it feels like digging for gold, it was quite fun :lol:
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Courgettes, tomatoes, cues, Tuscan kale, runners and French.
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Courgettes, tomatoes, cues and a handful of runner beans.
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Two buckets of tomatoes, courgettes for us, a neighbour and next door's pigs, aubergines, French and runner beans, chard, parsley, carrots, plums, psb, a few raspberres and our first ever charentais melon. Most given away.
Our neighbours gave us a carrier of yellow beans and beautiful aubergines.
Our rear neighbours gave us cucumbers and giant tomatoes. Ho hum.... :D
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1.3kg of redcurrants-plenty more to come.
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Nearly a rabbit at least i have found where he is getting in from my neighbours garden, lettuce, radish, peas, broad beans, pots, red and white onions, goosegogs, courgettes, turnips and broccoli. with garlic looking about ready to pull.
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Went down to the plot early this morning to avoid the heat, and harvested various types of lettuce, rocket, mizuna, long white and marketmore cucs, red pear toms, a couple of large spring onions, handful of corriander,
baby carrots and soleil courgettes, all for our first BBQ of the year :D
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1 x blueberry
there were more but I think the the birds got them before I did, so I grabbed this one just as I saw it ripen. I don't think there are any more to come so it's my one and only for the year. No photo as I ate it straight away - sweet and tasty!
Hannah
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Raspberries, broad beans, peas, a Stoke lettuce, red and white onions both seem ready very early, the first courgettes and amazingly, a cauliflower.
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3 courgettes, 1 mini cue and 5 baby toms.
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Two yep just two . Runner beans. Good size too. Very early though !
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A large Bowl full of runner beans, Arron Pilot potatoes, carmen cucumber, large Greyhound cabbage, Lollo Rosso lettuce, Beetroot, 4kg Kelvedon Wonder peas, a punnet full of unknown variety of raspberries and a larger punnet of Tulameen raspberries, and a partridge in a pear tree :lol:
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Pile of autumn sown red onions, cabbage and some quite small garlic. Will leave rest a bit longer. x
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A carrot. Small but perfectly formed ::)
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Yesterday I got more broad beans, peas, some more of this year's onions ready very early, radishes, leaf beet, first purple carrots, spring onions, 2 types of beetroot (chioggia striped and golden), strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries and a handful of blueberries. I don't think I will be picking anything today because of the rain.
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In the rain, just picked runner beans and helda beans
Scraped top of rooster potato patch for some potatoes this weekend
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Yesterday another portion of French beans, loads of peas, some Desiree spuds and more rasps that got eaten immediately.
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Nipped up to water the polytunnel and harvested 1 okra! Plus 3 courgettes.
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Getting 4 corgettee a day. Four pounds of kestral potatoes. Carrots turnip beetroot and raspberries. Beans nearly ready.
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3lb toms
1lb redcurrants
3lb beetroot
1 cabbage
12 courgettes
1lb blackberries
1/2lb french beans
1lb spuds
1 cucumber
5lb peas
1lb carrots
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Another 1.5kg of peas (my thumbs are sore from all the podding) loads more runner beans, a large cabbage, Tulameen raspberries, 2 more cucumbers and a lettuce.
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2crystal lemon cucumber,courgettes x 8 :ohmy: some were huge, 2 gherkins,raspberries.
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Dug up the last of the 1st earlies and put them in a hessian sack.
Lots of pickings of runner and french beans.
I'm sure I picked those courgettes, another 4 turn up!!!!!!
Took the stash home, had a coffee and promptly fell asleep! That weather was warm!!!
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Piles of helda, runner and broad beans
Cucumbers and a few beetroot
New charlotte potatoes
Turnips
Gave a bag of runner beans to my neighbour too yesterday.
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74lb potatoes :D sent hubby to get some for this week and he brings home 74lb what the hell does he think we have on the menu this week :nowink:
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I rather large courgette that I missed yesterday :ohmy: :lol:
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I rather large courgette that I missed yesterday :ohmy: :lol:
Want some spuds to go with it
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No thanks, I forgot I dug 3 roots of them too for the week. Not weighed them but I will.
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Maris Peer potatoes, carrots, courgettes and lettuce. The raspberries didn't make it home!!!
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Four cigarettes, three toms, spring onions, and the first two small cucumbers (very late this year due to germination problems).
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Four cigarettes.
Interesting harvest there Springy! :D
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The first butternut, 3 courgettes and a marrow :blush: loads of red orach, some miserable chewed-up Charlottes, red Baron onions plus toms, basil and cukes from the Polytunnel
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Toms, cues, melon, courgettes (and marrows) rasps, french beans, carrots, beets, red pepper and sweetcorn.
I can't believe how many butternuts you get to a plant out here, far too many for us, the neighbours, the village..... :lol:
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Onions very early, Stuttgarter Giant and Red Baron. Peas, radish, Stoke lettuce, courgettes (lots), and chives.
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courgettes cues & lots of cherry toms (gartenperle- thanks DevonBarmy much happier growing these than those biggys that always give me trouble), basil, beets & spuds. Runners & some purple frenchbeans.
The first sweetcorn yes! outside but wind sheltered. 8) not called 'Swift' for nuffin then ;)
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Four cigarettes.
Interesting harvest there Springy! :D
:lol: :lol: Predictive text strikes again!!
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Red and white onions, peas, courgettes, a large beetroot, raspberries (lots) and strawberries.
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2 courgettes
My first cucumber
Sweet peas
And
A big handful of raspberries
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4 courgettes (1.2kg), enough runners (276g) for tonight's dinner
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Red peppers, okra, courgettes, melon, cukes, toms, french beans, chard, plums and raspberries.
The geese are getting a varied diet! :lol:
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1.1kg of charlotts potatoes, these were all about egg sized so perfect for my needs. (This was from one seed potato grown in a 10L pot, planted back on the 17th April).
5 x sungold tomatoes.
Hannah :)
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Woohoooooooooo!
After 5 years, and several false starts, we finally harvested our very first ever Northumbrian fig last night! It was delicious with a slice of goat's cheese and a handful of home grown salad leaves :D
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Woohoooooooooo!
After 5 years, and several false starts, we finally harvested our very first ever Northumbrian fig last night! It was delicious with a slice of goat's cheese and a handful of home grown salad leaves :D
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I have fig envy !! what type how and where please did not think they would grow up here
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:tongue2: :tongue2: just pulled some of my early start sweetcorn from the polytunnel wow it is lovely :D and very early
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Runner beans. Aaron purple, which weren't very purple. Loads of St marzano and sungold toms. An embarrassment of courgettes. And first full size marrow of the season. Wahoo !
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More sweet peas, a green pepper and about 20 raspberries!
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Last of the raspberries from the early & mid canes as I pruned them out. 5 gherkins, & a collection of broad beans, climbing yellow beans, purple podded climbing beans,borlotti & yellow French beans. Just a few of each to make a bean salad for tea. Some beetroot.
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A few raspberries, but they never made it home. Peas, courgettes and onions.
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3 more courgettes :D, poppy seeds from H, she's says we can eat them ??? & all my tomatoes from my outdoor plants as when I went to tie them up I saw they had blight :(
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Courgettes, butternut, aubergines and peppers for roast veg for tomorrow.
And the first ever sweetcorn pick, blinking lovely it is.
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13 cukes (over 2 days), 4 overlarge courgettes, 4 lettuces
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A lovely cucumber, spring onions and two courgettes.
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Mangetout, broad beans, potatoes and of course the obligatory courgettes!
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Curly kale, Swiss Chard
Runner and Helda beans
Charlotte and Rooster potatoes
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Beetroot
Lettuce
Sweat peas
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Japenese wineberries
Tayberries
Blackberries
Courgettes
Cucumbers
4lb toms
Runners
French beans
Ummmmm oh and two cabbage
Oh and some onions piddling but they are onions
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2 lettuces, 1 cabbage, 1 courgette (courgette sized :D) and quite likely to get a few more cukes... ::)
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15 courgettes :wacko: maybe 6 plants is a tad too many for 2 of us :D, 3 runner beans I must have missed yesterday.
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7 cukes (5 indoor, 2 outdoor), and the first tomato :D
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A good sized turnip, huge Goldenacre cabbage, some red spring onions, peas, a few runner beans, 4 more courgettes, the last of the onions from sets which have all been very early, a few dwarf yellow beans. First sweet pepper, a cream coloured Amy sweet wax pepper.
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2 courgettes, some lovely purple french beans, some runners, some spuds, some calaloo (spinach), tempted by a red kuri squah that looks ready but holding off! when, when?
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A cucumber and lots of spring onions, four courgettes (and keeping an eye on my first sweet million). :D
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Yesterday:
850g of the prettiest and finest french beans I've ever grown :D
400g blueberries
3 large lettuces
33 mostly nice sized onions (now drying in the study) ;)
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Bountiful harvest tonight - really chuffed. :D
Potatoes, 3 x cabbage (not shown), sweetcorn from the tunnel, cucumber, tomatoes, beans, beans and more beans and 4 x peppers.
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1 courgette
1 pepper
10 raspberries
Not much really but I do only have a quarter plot :blush:
Mrswashi
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Carrots, peas, runner beans, dwarf French beans, radish and leaf beet.
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6 large marrows, 5 courgettes, king edward spuds, various tomatoes, and 12 hot wax and jalapeño chillies.
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The first minipop swetcorn
Beetroot
Loads of beans
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13 courgettes :lol: & quite a few gherkins which are now in a dish with all the others being salted.
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The first brandy wine - 325g :ohmy: slightly less impressive being the only fruit on the plant ::)
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More courgettes, peas, spring onions, onions, climbing french beans, runner beans and a cucumber.
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4 courgettes, masses of purple beans,1 cucumber, radishes, 3 punnets blackberries, few achocha, few toms
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One courgette a load of ballotti beans and some spuds plus a lettuce.
Cheers HH
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1/2 a large tub trug of Lady Christl spuds,beans- runners,broad,purple & yellow climbing, dwarf green & yellow. Beetroot, 2 red onions that got left behind. Got given 2 cucumbers :lol: only 1 1/2 got home.
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Huge amount of Charlotte spuds, really pleased with them. :D
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Courgettes and perp spinach
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3 courgettes, runner and french beans, 2 red onion and a handful of cherry tomatoes.
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2 courgettes totalling 1.2 kg, a handful of toms and 1 orange chilli
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The 1st real harvest of this years greenhouse toms apart from the 1 I ate last week whilst I was watering :lol:
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5lb of runners and four normal ish sized courgettes.
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Peas, spinach, last of garlic, one cauli, a couple of cabbage. Also 6 little gem lettuce which seemed a shame to disturb as they were all in little rows and surprisingly all perfect and not nibbled! :lol:
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The first of the Sweet Millions toms - they tasted so much nicer than the Shirley toms (and a pile of courgettes).
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Loads of small tomatoes
Piles of runner beans and helda beans
Golden Acre cabbage
Sweat peas
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1 Palivec hot pepper, runner beans, yellow dwarf French beans, purple climbing French beans, an iceberg lettuce, a shallot, some White Belgium carrots and Touchon orange carrots and 5 courgettes.
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The long awaited sweetcorn harvest today! 12 perfect cobs. Also courgette (can't believe how many you get from one plant), beetroot, carrots and the first greenhouse tomato.
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A yellow courgette half a dozen Long Red Florence salad onions, a cucumber from the greenhouse and a few cherry toms - oh nearly forgot the lettuce a hooooge Black Seeded Simpson :) I'm very impressed with these, new for this year - but now on the always list!
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2lb runner beans, enough leaf beet for mums & mike's dinners, handful cherry toms
And as a first for a while NO courgettes!!
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A big basket of runners. 4 corgis, 1 biiigg marrow. Loads of toms.
Going to dig all the spuds today ready to store. Also going to hack down all the borage that has sprung up. Lovely as it is. Bet I have even more seedlings to hoe off next year. Meanwhile they will make a nice tea for something and anyway they are smothering the Ocas so they will be pleased.
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Two huge beetroot, Dobie's Purple. Carrots, peas, french beans (climbing and dwarf), runner beans, a turnip and blackberries.
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Mangetout, courgette, carrots, potatoes, runner beans, broad beans and 4kg of plums from the allotment and beet root, turnips and more carrots from home! Phew!! :D
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A rather overgrown courgette, more reducrrants, minipop sweetcorn, more beans, beetroot, spring onions and potatoes.
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Just a small harvest for us today, 300g runners and a handful of cherry toms.
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Plus some various beans,the last of the broad beans :(, purple climbing,green & yellow French,climbing yellow,borlotti & runner,& the elephant garlic
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Various toms including sun gold, santonio, ailsa Craig, and a pink brandywine of 530g. 10 cucamelons- first ever.
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1st sweet bell pepper (that doesn't have blossom end rot), 3 more cukes and a big bowl of cherry toms :D
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A big basket of runners. 4 corgis, 1 biiigg marrow. Loads of toms.
Going to dig all the spuds today ready to store. Also going to hack down all the borage that has sprung up. Lovely as it is. Bet I have even more seedlings to hoe off next year. Meanwhile they will make a nice tea for something and anyway they are smothering the Ocas so they will be pleased.
Is this normal in Malvern growing Corgis to eat .... get the RSPCA :lol: :lol:
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A Goldenacre cabbage, 1 yellow courgette, 4 green courgettes, a Reine des Glaces lettuce, 1 bulb of fennel, red and white spring onions, a few carrots (orange, white and purple varieties), a few peas, last of the raspberries (they didn't make it home), chives and a massive Zebrune shallot.
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Aye Rosie we Luvs our otdogs round yer! ;-)
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Half a kilo of runners, 2 cues, 1 courgette, 2 "proper" size toms, and a handful of cherry ones.
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Some sweet million toms, a sweet pepper (picked whilst still green as I love the fresh taste) and lots of salad onions (added to my salad at lunch time).
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A big basket of runners. 4 corgis, 1 biiigg marrow. Loads of toms.
Going to dig all the spuds today ready to store. Also going to hack down all the borage that has sprung up. Lovely as it is. Bet I have even more seedlings to hoe off next year. Meanwhile they will make a nice tea for something and anyway they are smothering the Ocas so they will be pleased.
Is this normal in Malvern growing Corgis to eat .... get the RSPCA :lol: :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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First time growing sweetcorn, from raised bed to fork in 5 minutes. Delicious :D
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oooh yum yum my mouth is watering hope mine turn out like that :)
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Aye Rosie we Luvs our otdogs round yer! ;-)
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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2 courgettes totalling 1.22kg, and 724g of runners, probably some toms to pick later, but forgot to take a receptacle to put them in!
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Picked 3 lettuces, 3 courgette-sized courgettes :lol: and nearly 4kg of 'Carminant' French beans - 3kg 950g!!
I have never had a real need to use the word 'prolific' before... :ohmy: :D
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4 more courgettes. Courgette flowers for stuffing with cheese. Climbing French beans and dwarf ones, runner beans, a cucumber, some Lollo Rosso lettuce, and the first two ripe tomatoes.
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Smallest harvest of the week so far :(
400g runners, 124g toms
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A very large cucumber, first outdoor tomato (a Latah), 4 more courgettes (1 yellow one), runner beans, Yellow,Rynsburger onion, carrots (purple, white and orange), Blue Coco pole beans, dwarf yellow French beans, a few peas and blackberries.
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6 marrows and a basket of runner beans. A basket full of mixed variety tomatoes from indoors and out. All my king Edward potatoes and the rest of the Accent earlies.
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My 3 roots of Ambo spuds, & very well they did too,thanks DD, they tasted good as a jacket. 2 more courgettes, an escaped gherkin that was trying to be a very prickly marrow & 2 more gherkins. Loads of beans,runners,purple,borlotti,French green & yellow
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Yesterday 4lb (1kg 800g) Victoria plums
600g blueberries
:D
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Runner beans, purple pole beans, yellow dwarf beans, 4 more courgettes and some red and white spring onions.
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:D I picked a rainbow and was very happy until..... I spotted the Lebanese courgette blimp :unsure: now what am I going to do with that!
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Four more courgettes (it can't go on!), runner beans, purple pole beans, dwarf yellow French beans. Last of the Stokesley peas, onions, lettuce, tomatoes, apples (windfalls), blackberries and blueberries.
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Today I had the most delicious, juicy, sweet and still warm from the sun white fleshed peach I have ever eaten, plucked from the tree which gave us three wizened specimens last year. There are more to come. Whats more we sat in our mini pool while we ate as the temperature was 40 in the shade. Phew. :ohmy:
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First harvest of sweetcorn and oh my word it was good! :nowink: :D
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Today's greenhouse goodies ;) :)
This is the 3rd bowl of toms like this in 2 weeks.
And I've lost count of the cukes!! :D
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Picked all of the sweetcorn as they have been ripe for about 5 days and I thought I shouldn't stretch it much longer. So that's 2 for dinner tonight, 2 teeny tiny ones in the fridge for lunch or something and 10 more in the freezer!
Picked a couple of small cauliflower heads and also one large squash as it was clearly ripe and after last year I am twitchy about the rats and tree rats eating them. I have left the 3 smaller ones on then plant to hopefully fatten up a bit more
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Today's greenhouse goodies ;) :)
This is the 3rd bowl of toms like this in 2 weeks.
And I've lost count of the cukes!! :D
wow shop looking aubergine there. Top stuff! What variety are the cukes?
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Today's greenhouse goodies ;) :)
This is the 3rd bowl of toms like this in 2 weeks.
And I've lost count of the cukes!! :D
wow shop looking aubergine there. Top stuff! What variety are the cukes?
Passandra grafted cukes from Marshalls.
2 years of brilliance from them - AND I also have 3 of them growing outside against my warm house wall - so they're happy in or out ;) :)
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Broad beans, runner beans, last of the mangetout peas, courgettes and carrots.
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Terrific crop of tomatoes; Cerise cherry, Cuor di bue, Cillegia, San Marzono, Costoluto Fiorentino, Moneymaker
Burpless cucumbers, lettuce,
Carrots, Purple Milan turnips, Golden Acre cabbage, kale
Rooster and Charlotte potatoes
Painted lady runner beans, helda beans, french beans
Tons of Basil (growing it in the greenhouse next to the tomatoes, as suggested on here, best crop ever :) )
Rhubarb
Sweet peas
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Last of the early potatoes, last of the broad beans and mangetout peas, courgettes, raspberries from the plot and outdoor cucumbers, turnips and carrots from the veg border at home.
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Chioggia beetroot, Touchon carrots, courgettes (yellow and green), tomatoes (Chadwick Cherry, Latah and Aranyalma varieties), spring onions, cabbage, cauliflower, Minidor dwarf yellow French beans, runner beans, Blue Coco climbing French beans, Zebrune shallots, blackberries, blueberries and raspberries.
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Another carrier bag full of french beans, 3 courgettes (1 large) and 2 lettuces
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Another 3 roots of Ambo spuds,all the onions(good crop, with only a few rotten ones), loads of various beans-runner,French,purple - violette?,yellow climbing,yellow dwarf,borlottie.
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A picture speaks a thousand words! :D
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Leaf beet, runner beans, Blue Coco French Beans, Minidor dwarf yellow French beans, lollo rosso lettuce, Sutton's purple podded peas, cooking apples, a Gilfeather's Turnip Swede thing, blackberries and raspberries.
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5 lettuces (2 for the hens) and all the new potatoes from 3 bags - wish I could remember whether they were 'Ratte' or 'Belle de Fontaney' ::) :wacko:
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Down the allotment today, harvested my borlotti beans, more tomatoes and peppers, watermelon. cues, raspberries and apples.
Made several apple & raspberry crumbles to freeze
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3 lettuces, 2 courgette-sized courgettes, one spring cabbage and HUGE carrots!!!
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Sweetcorn, courgettes, blackberries and beans.
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All of my kestrel crop. Lots of broad beans,beetroot,turnip and red onions.One cabbage only!
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3 lettuces, 2 courgette-sized courgettes, one spring cabbage and HUGE carrots!!!
Some nice carrots and yes huge.
What variety are they?
Tend to grow mine as baby carrots.
Grown Caracus and Chantenay Red Cored this year and picked a nice load this weekend and yummy.
Also picked this weekend piles of Kale, loads of tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, runner and helda beans.
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3 lettuces, 2 courgette-sized courgettes, one spring cabbage and HUGE carrots!!!
Some nice carrots and yes huge.
What variety are they?
They're 'Yellowstone' - T&M I think.
I didn't plan for them to be so big and it's very early for them to have reached this size!! I think it's because they're in last years celeriac bed which was VERY well composted/manured as celeriac are greedy feeders ???
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Turned out the Desiree bag - 3 seed spuds = 3.5kg spuds in the end, most of them are a really good size. Will be repeating the exercise again next year. :D
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Runner beans, the first of the Greek Gigantes beans, climbing purple french beans and dwarf yellow ones, massive carrots and beetroot. Some blackberries and raspberries. Oh, and a courgette.
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Last of red onions, more beetroot, broad beans and blackberries
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Last of the Zebrune shallot from seed, a Touchstone gold beetroot, some sweet peppers, tomatoes, runner beans, dwarf and climbing French beans, Greek Gigantes beans, 2 cucumbers, green and yellow courgettes, a Goldenacre cabbage, a few peas, blackberries and autumn raspberries.
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Found missed two small red onions. Large pile of spinach.
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Runner beans, purple climbing beans.
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Another cucumber, more tomatoes including 3 big Black Krims.
If you haven't tried yet, have a sliced black krim tomato with cheese in a sandwich - it makes a really meaty sandwich I'm reliably told ;) :)
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Just returned from holiday and picked a bowl of tomatoes (with lots more to come) and lots of sweet peppers. Have not even looked at the courgettes or the other outdoor stuff.
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Painted Lady Runner beans, Helda beans
Purple Milan turnips, Golden Acre cabbage, Westland Autumn Curly kale
Caracus and Chantenay Red Cored carrots
Rooster potatoes
Mixed Lettuce, beetroot and Burpless cucumbers
Piles of tomatoes; Cerise cherry, Cuor di bue, Cillegia, San Marzono, Costoluto Fiorentino, Moneymaker
Piles of basil
Rhubarb
Sweat Peas
Picked a load of Perpetual Spinach and Chard on Sat too
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2 lettuces :)
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One large Connecticut Field pumpkin. Not fully ripe yet, but brought home to ripen off the vine as the second smaller and riper one was eaten overnight by some sort of rodent that only left half the skin and the seeds. Very cross!
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lots of achocha, borlotti beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, runner beans, chillies, nasturtium leaves for salad, little gem lettuce, ice cream tub of blackberries.
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20 lb of wild damsons. Now how many bottles of gin is that? :-).
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20 lb of wild damsons. Now how many bottles of gin is that? :-).
Gin is too expensive now :( The first year I did sloe gin I did about 16lbs of sloes and 2lbs blackberries, not sure I could afford the gin now.
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yes it is expensive but it makes a nice present for an event just as it is coming ready. Also it is always on offer at Morries at this time of year. Doesnt have to be the real good stuff either. I might try a voddy one this year too as never tried that.
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4 large cucumbers, 3 varieties of tomato, French beans (purple and yellow), runner beans, Starley Red Peas, a cauliflower, 4 more courgettes and a few raspberries and blackberries.
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3 more cucumbers, tomatos - Tigerella, Black Krim, sweet million and harbinger, plus carrots, cabbage for tea :)
Oh and 4 marrow sized courgettes ::) and 2 Thelma Sanders squash :D
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2 marrows. 2 courgettes...sigh!......
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3 parsnips getting too large so will blanch cut up and freeze, carrots done really well with these this year, broad beans will freeze some of these, 2 sweetcorn just discovered these are tastier uncooked, beets for pickling feeling like a gardening goddess :lol:
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2 more cucumbers! 4 more courgettes! Runner beans, french beans, red peas, a turnip, a red cabbage (v small), lollo rosso lettuce, tuscan kale, tomatoes, purple dragon carrots, blueberries and blackberries.
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Two pounds of tomatoes, two out door cucumbers and a sweet pepper.
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Couple of carrots and some black kale for tea :)
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More tomatoes and mini cucumbers. Will be having hm tomato soup again on Monday. :D
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Tomatoes, 4 more courgettes, radishes, raspberries, blackberries, my first Benning's Green Tint patty pan squash and first Fat Baby Achocha. Hoping for a glut of these before frosts arrive, they seem to have taken an age to get going.
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Another swede, four turnips, five parsnips, carrots, beetroot, toms, cucumber, spuds
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Tomatoes, runner beans, apples and two courgettes.
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My first LEEKS! :D :D :D
By 'eck they are strong! Eyes watering like I had the strongest onion on my chopping board. Leek & potato soup with all my own produce was boootiful.
Also picked achocha, toms, a courgette, borlotti beans, trail of tears beans, padron peppers and chillies.
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Sill digging my spuds up. Tried a different variety this year - "Amour".
Imagine my surprise!
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Getting around 7 lbs of spuds off most plants and they're as clean as a whistle.
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2 lettuces, 2 teeny weeny Thelma Sanders (that aren't going to get any bigger now the plant has died off), 6 winter dumpling squashes and a load of blueberries
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Here is most of today's harvest which is for the West Yorkshire Organics show tomorrow.
I picked a monster beetroot (Dobbie's Purple) which is allegedly still tender when huge, carrots (2 sorts), kale, leaf beet, courgettes, runner beans, french beans, a lovely Palivec chilli pepper, Amy sweet pepper, cucumber, tomatoes, parsnip, kohlrabi, fennel and a red cabbage.
Adding red onions, shallots and garlic, plus blackcurrant jam, runner bean pickle and cider apple butter and that's my entry for tomorrow. Mercifully the produce is tested on taste and not on how it looks like!
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cauliflower are doing ok this year
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14lbs tomatoes of various kinds. Currently 10lbs turning into sauce and 4lbs into dried toms.
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Awesome cauli Luke, and DD- what a whopper!
Spinach, raps, strawbs, fat babies, runners, beets & cues.
Just checking in here because; is it ok to curse under your breath when you've spotted YET another lurking cucumber? It seems so ungrateful, but I used 10 in pickle this week, given another 10 away and have now another 8/10/12 who knows in the garage fridge :wacko: :wub:
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I know the feeling pigguns :(
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First sweetcorn cob, already eaten, yum! Fat bay achochas, runner beans, tomatoes (Latah, Maskotka, Aranyalma and Burpee's Jubilee), climbing French beans, red peas, a Lollo Rosso lettuce, another cucumber, 3 more courgettes, a green patty pan squash, a yellow sweet pepper and a Palivec chilli pepper.
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More Sweet Miion tomatoes, more outdoor cucumbers, spring onions and a red pepper. :D
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Hey, I'm growing my own herbs and chillies. Last night I picked two handfuls of chilli peppers out of four plants. I'm really glad I planted those. :)
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Loads of toms (getting near the end now :(), 4 cukes (2 were huge) and the one successful green bell pepper that hasn't been destroyed by cattypiddlers!
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Loads of toms (getting near the end now :(), 4 cukes (2 were huge) and the one successful green bell pepper that hasn't been destroyed by cattypiddlers!
Loads of toms for me too - and loads more to come both indoors and out. And couple of tiddler cukes. :)
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Raspberries, courgettes and lettuce. Next time will pick lots of white dahlias. Few turnips and beetroot left in ground
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Sweetcorn, leeks, courgettes, patty pan squash, tomatoes, cucumber, sweet yellow paper, spring onions, apples, potatoes, red peas and blackberries.
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20 sweet million tomatoes and three small outdoor cucumbers. The cukes are amazing - I have never had such a prolific outdoor crop. :)
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Massive harvest today. Cara potatoes, unfortunately a fair few slug damaged. Carrots (3 varieties, Purple Dragon, White Belgium and Touchon). Huge Dobbie's Purple beetroot. Sweetcorn, tomatoes (Latah and Maskotka), French beans, runner beans, an Azur kohlrabi, Gigantes Greek beans, red peas, a Thelma Sanders sweet potato squash, fat babies, a Palivec chilli pepper, orange mini sweet peppers, a courgette and yet another Early Fortune cucumber. I have had 28 large cucumbers of this one plant alone.
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An Asda carrier bag full of Sweet Million tons, San Marzarno toms, Runner beans and 2 off sweetcorn.
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Today, yesterday and Friday have picked quite a lot.
Painted Lady Runner beans, slowly dying off now.
Helda beans, just keep on coming.
Loads of Purple Milan turnips, and Westland Autumn Curly kale
A Golden Acre cabbage
Colander full of Caracus and Chantenay Red Cored carrots
Rooster potatoes, still just scraping top of plot, prob dig all up next week.
Mixed Lettuce and Burpless cucumbers
Beetroot, for salads this week and pickled in a large kilner jar.
Still piles of tomatoes; Cerise cherry, Cuor di bue, Cillegia, San Marzono, Costoluto Fiorentino, Moneymaker
Large pickings of basil
A few Rhubarb sticks
Sweat Peas
Picked a load of Perpetual Spinach and Chard during the week too.
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Huge haul of all the remaining carrots. The rest of the Picasso potatoes, a bit slugged. Tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, radishes, runner beans, French beans, Gigantes Greek beans, red peas, fat babies, patty pan squash, courgette and blackberries.
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Large carrots but many with small holes will see what they are like when I cut into them. Dwarf beans couple of corgettee s .Three more pumpkin leaving squash not changing colour at all. Still plenty to eat but slowing down.
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Lovely, and it's First time I've grown butternut, definitely growing them again.
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Is Saturday's harvest rather than today's, but I didn't have time to post:
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Potato's (Cara) runner beans and butternut squash today, yesterday we picked a dozen sweetcorn cobs for a family BBQ, lovely!!
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Sunday's harvest for me as picture wouldn't up load
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Picked a load of root parsley for dinner last night - lovely stuff, and definitely a keeper on the seed sowing list for 2015. Kept the leaves to use as fresh parsley - multi-purpose veggies! :)
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1 Thelma Sanders sweet potato squash, 3 yellow courgettes, fat babies, runner beans, Greek Gigantes beans, 2 huge chioggia beetroot, 1 sweet yellow pepper, tomatoes, 2 cucumbers, celery, lots of Benning's Green Tint patty pan squash.
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14 patty pans
3 mourgettes
last of the runners (blooming rust)
2nd to last of the French beans (rust again)
achocha (put the carrier bag of 2 week only uneaten ones in the compost) will try to eat these!
Mint and more mint (for the bunny)
cucumbers
bertoli beans going to try the seeds in a soup
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Sunday harvested all but 1 of the pumpkins & needed help to pick MrBig up & put him in the shed with 6 or 7 others. More gherkins, runner beans- thankfully coming to the end now & a big tub of raspberries.
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Massive Goldenacre cabbage plus resident slugs, more courgettes (green and yellow), chilli pepper, green pepper, 3 more cucumbers (!), tomatoes, runner beans, Gigantes Greek beans, last sweetcorn, last of the red peas, beetroot, patty pan squash and leeks.
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Long time lurker, first time poster...
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Another 5 Pumpkin New England, 2 Sherwood Cabbages, last of the Boltardy Beetroot, Royal Chantenay carrots, Pentland Javelin and Charlotte Potatoes that have been forgotten during the maincrop harvest. Also picked a few more runners, radish and last of the peas which suffered terrible mildew this year which has been frustrating.
I was also gutted that my summer purple sprouting broccoli has finally sprouted and is absolutely smothered in aphids. Soon cheered up when I was lugging this haul back home, even if it did break my back carrying it.
Always gives and takes this allotment lark.....
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Fennel, tomatoes, another cucumber, more courgettes, achochas, leeks, a chilli pepper, runner beans, Gigantes Greek beans and the last of the French beans for seed.
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Small harvest. Few turnips and beetroot. Some raspberries. One courgette, has been really poor crop surprisingly. Two lettuce that are going to seed but still edible.
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wow F1Chris nice veg selfie there 8) good job and welcome oh lurking one.
Cut backgarden greenhouse lettuce by torchlight in my dressing gown this morning for dear daughters salad lunchbox!
Off the plot
had the last 2 of my huge green NZ buttercup pumpkins (kids groaned, MORE pumpkins.....)
3 big cues but finally slowing,
an acorn squash on the path that seemed to have detached itself...
5 finger sized courgettes
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Possibly the last of the tomatoes - nice haul though ;) :)
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The rest of the outdoor tomatoes. Many still green, but about to turn red, picked before forecast bad weather. Could hardly carry them. Chilli and sweet peppers and fat babies.
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Lettuce & tiny carrots from the planter on the patio for tea
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Small pot of raspberries and some sweetcorn. Lots of my cobs have been eaten by something so small crop. Should have picked the rest of them sooner :(
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Last of beetroot, runner beans and Greek Gigantes beans. Fat babies, more cucumber and courgette, chilli pepper, celery (very weedy), parsnips, kale and spinach, a few apples.
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Picked some Helda beans, they just keep on coming.
A few cucumbers from the greenhouse and one from ourtside. Still picking tomatoes, although dwindling now.
Beetroot and lettuce.
Loads of Kale, carrots and turnips.
Rooster pototoes from the shed, but all dug recently from the garden.
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Fennel, Mooli and 2 cabbages. Particularly happy with the fennel-supermarket sized bulb and I'm sure will taste much better!
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Aubergines & a pepper, & what I thought was a small sweet pepper,but it turned out to be a chilli,whoops, sorry DD, who ate half of it in the pasta sauce she made for me. :wacko: the aubergines are striped toga & not very nice :unsure:
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I dug up half a wheelbarrow of squonky carrots yesterday! They went into carrier bags for a couple of chums in the village who have ponies,,,
The trouble with carrots, is that when you want them to grow, they don't, but when you don't want them to grow, they go mad!
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Picked a lot today as we have been away for 3 weeks. Tomatoes, chilli peppers, cucumbers from the polytunnel. Plants still going strong. Courgettes outside, still producing, tomatillos and fat baby achochas. A swede, celery, Tuscan kale, leaf beet, parsnips, leeks, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, salsify (harder than parsnips to dig out!), a lollo rosso lettuce and some cooking apples.
Could hardly carry it.
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Got a swede, some stunning leeks, cabbage, parsnips. More to come tomorrow as todays load went to a fellow plotter who's awol while she has chemo.
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Cabbage, carrots, parsnips and kale all collected this morning and eaten for lunch!
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Beetroot..... still sweet and tender :)
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Some Semaroh sweet peppers and a Wenks Yellow Hot chilli pepper from the polytunnel. Cabbage, a red one and a Goldenacre one. Brussels sprouts, leeks, turnips, parsnips, leaf beet, Tuscan kale, celery and a lollo rosso lettuce.
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Cavelo Nero that was covered in white fly :ohmy: :mad: so I'm ashamed to say after bringing it home & soaking in a bucket of water ended up in the compost bin. The worlds smallest fully formed caulflower :lol: a larger cauliflower that had blown so that went to daves chickens & a cabbage
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A proper leek :ohmy: :D
After years of spring onion sized rubbish - I've finally managed something I don't actually mind calling a leek. It might not be the biggest or the prettiest but It's a real leek.
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Leeks, cabbage, carrots, broccoli and the last few apples off the tree.
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Leeks, kale, root parsley, carrots, beetroot. :tongue2:
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Leeks, a small swede. Last of the sweet and chilli peppers from the polytunnel.
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Kale, perp spinach, brocolli, golden beetroot and huge br sp :D
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40 cayenne peppers from the 2 plants on my spare bedroom windowsill (2nd crop this year.)
Have given them a severe haircut to hopefully force them into having a rest, although from past experience they probably won't. ;)
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Leeks, Kale, beetroot, chard, spinach, carrots and sprouts and some greenhouse lettuce
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Carrots, kale, cabbage, parsnips :D
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One huge parsnip, four good leeks, about a dozen carrots (carrots out of polytunnel from a September sowing)
I think I'm about to disprove the philosophy that you can't plant too many leeks as I have two 12ft x 4 ft beds of them totally untouched. Maybe overdid the parsnips too
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No such thing as too many leeks or parsnips!
This is for yesterday: carrots, root parsley, kale, oca.
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Lots and lots of parsnips.
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Last parsnip 9( note to self, plant more next year) & bag of chard
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Yesterday 2 lovely parsnips, a tiny cauliflower,& tadah some purple sprouting broc. Don't ask me why it's ready now it just was & I'm lucky I spitted it under the debris netting, don't know if it's very late autumn broc or very early spring :wacko:. But it was lovely
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Leeks (lots), a red cabbage and Brussels sprouts.
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Yesterday, leeks & a lovely parsnip again & a cabbage for tea. Very pleased with these parsnips The Student.
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Sprouts & kale for THE dinner :mad: my neighbours sprouts are huge- me n him gonna be having a chat.....
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Went to the plot in lovely sunshine to harvest parsnips, the tiniest sprouts known to man- mother refused to prepare them >:(, & some beetroot.
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We have micro sprouts too....tell mother micro everything is trendy! :lol: We also have micro caulies which had started to go manky. The parsnips are already prepared in the freezer
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Yesterday got some red sprouts for Christmas lunch. Nice taste. Brassicas were terrible this year, so that was about it.
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Sprouts and kale as that's all I have growing this year!
Better planning for next year :(
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Two Savoy cabbages
Six nice looking parsnips
Some good carrots
One celeriac
That wil do us for the week
Ground was a little frosty but ok
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Cabbage, leeks and oca today. It was very cold up there with ice still sitting between the leek leaves, but worth it for a bag full of plot veg :D
Looks like the deer are getting a bit hungry. They have munched the chard and they won't usually touch that ::)
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Chicory, salsify, cavolo nero, celeriac and mustard greens.