Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: DD. on March 12, 2011, 08:53
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The daily harvest thread ground to a halt last October.
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=42814.345
Surely people have had stuff out of the ground since then?
Anyway, rather than tail end it I thought I'd kick a new one off for this year. The previous one will still be around as per the link to refer to.
So, here's this morning's pickings:
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c182/G4IAR/P1000312.jpg)
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The first pick is always sooo lovely :)
I picked just a few sticks (from the plants I grew from seed) last week and made a crumble just for me. But it was worth it :lol:
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This is actually the second pick!
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:nowink: :D
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The daily harvest thread ground to a halt last October.
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=42814.345
Surely people have had stuff out of the ground since then?
I couldnt find it when i was looking for it, must not have looking in the right places ::)
Anyway, not the biggest harvest but we have already had some chives out of the garden :)
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Yesterday, the last of the Parsnips were dug up and the last but one Swede. The Brussels have enough on them for a few more dinners and the tops have not yet been eaten either.
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I have had a few chives as well :)
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Last Saturday's harvest:
(http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll181/Yorkie1_photos/DSCF0658.jpg)
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WOW Yorkie thats huge!!!!! ::)
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Yes!
20" long, 17" round, just under 4lb. So it's longer than DD's famous parsnip, the same circumference, but lighter than his!
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Still making my way through last years leeks and parsnips :). PSB suffered at the hands of the weather and the pigeons >:(
That parsnip is a corked Yorkie :ohmy: was it ok in the middle? I sometimes find the larger ones go a bit woody in the middle.
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It will be chopped and made into soup - it probably is rather woody :wub: :D
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Hi
Parsnips,Carrots,and Leeks plus the first picking of spring greens truly delicious taste.
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Hi
Parsnips,Carrots,and Leeks plus the first picking of spring greens truly delicious taste.
Did you have your carrots covered up against the frost?
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I don't. Mine have sat in the ground all winter.
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Last Saturday's harvest:
(http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll181/Yorkie1_photos/DSCF0658.jpg)
Thats big cousin Hardy, we lost touch with him.
We can now enter his demise on the family tree, its the one behind the greenhouse.
All we've had so far are a few sticks of rhubarb, very few.
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Hi
Parsnips,Carrots,and Leeks plus the first picking of spring greens truly delicious taste.
Did you have your carrots covered up against the frost?
(In a enviomesh fram)
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I've been using thyme & sage from my garden all winter in home-made soups & stews. Gave both a really good "haircut" today of all the dead & leggy stuff. New growth is emerging at the base of the sage :). Might have to start a new thyme plant tho' :unsure:
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We have just eaten the last of our leeks :D
WW 8)
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First lettuce of the year :D :D
Tom thumb :D
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In the last couple of weeks I have had curly kale, the last of the pencil size leeks, a few different types of oriental salad leaves (poly-tunnel) and the rhubarb that I forced.
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the last of the parssnips and leeks but loads of rhubarb and chives. Also got a small bed of wild garlic, ransomes I think they are called. Leaves are great replacement for garlic t the moment.
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do weeds count ive had some chickweed lol also one stick of rhubarb that snapped off comeing back from the garden center
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Today is my first harvest of the year. :D A few radish, some lettuce, rocket and some chives. All heading for todays picnic.
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Lovely JaK well done! :D
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Nothing much in for us to harvest at the moment. Lettuce and radish going in this weekend though.
Did bring home some lovely rhubarb this afternoon though, which is in the oven now covered with brown sugar and orange. Yum.
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Picked the first of the radish today and shallots, and I always grow an extra row of shallots so we can use them at this time as spring onions, the green leaves are really hot, lovely!
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cropped the weedy looking leeks left by old plot holder (would of happily let her keep them).
I am proud of myself I have frozen them according to this site's recipe.
wow that is an enormous parsnip. :ohmy:
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Awesome parsnip Yorkie!
We finished the last of the parsnips last weekend and the kale has finally given up but we have enjoyed rhubarb (got a rhubarb clafoutis in the oven as I type) and the perpetual spinach that has grown back surprisingly well after having been grazed by the chickens all winter. And the ham that is currently boiling has some of last years onions as well as some thyme, sage and bay from the garden for extra flavour.
I can't wait to get back to dining from the garden properly, I'm watching the peas grow every day and almost salivating at the thought of them raw and straight from the pod! :D
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Harvested the first of the salad leaves which were really tender and tasty.
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Look at the size of that!
That'll do a few Sunday dinners :lol:
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took a realy nice spring cabbage, and cut a bit of sage to put in the pantry to dry. and a couple of leeks
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We've had two lovely apple and rhubarb crumbles the last two weekends. Fresh rhubarb and apples from last year's Bramley crop.
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i had some radish today,an very nice too ;)
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i cut some chives - lol
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A LOT of rhubarb!!! :D
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Rhubarb, rhubarb and more rhubarb.
That's the only thing ready to harvest!
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Rocket leaves from my trays in the greenhouse - OH enjoyed them with his salad ( and I managed to eat some too).
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A few asparagus spears here, not enough to cook yet though
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some more salad leaves for lunch, and enough basil for the pasta tonight (first basil of the year) :D
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An abundance of herbs! Nothing else as yet.
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Loads of rhubarb, chives, sage, thyme and rocket from the rocket patch which has been going for 3 years now. Also about 1kg of potatoes the previous allotment holder had left in the ground (volunteers) which grew in our onion/garlic patch.
Eli xx
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chives that added a kick to a potato salad and asparagus, lovely on the BBQ -Going to inspect the neglected rhubarb today
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Asparagus :D finally after 2 years of waiting. Oh and tons of rhubarb :nowink:
Steve
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Enough rhubarb for 2 crumbles 8)
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One last mushroom from a growbox! :lol: I sliced it and put it in a home made quiche, waste not want not. :lol:
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Not much - just thinned out the radish bed for the second time, intending to take the spoils home... well, we got about 50 yards from the carpark before me and the wife had snacked on the lot :)
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Brought home a good handful of asparagus - the rest got snacked on at the allotment and some swis chard, younger leafs. They went great in my chicken stir fry for tea.
Yom Yom
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So far we've had daffodils by the bucket load! The plot has looked very nice too, not to mention they've attracted bees and bugs along with comments from envious fellow allotmenteers.
Please understand we only got the allotment in October and daffs were the first thing to go in the ground. We will just have to wait for some edible crops.
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Piles of salad and spring onion to go with the jkt spud (shop one :() for lunch :)
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A large amount of chard which is now a small amount as it is incorporated in a Saag Meat curry for tonight.
Lettuce thinnings all year round as I recall (a little vintage balsamic and some toasted seasame seeds and walnut oil). OH's favorite salad recipe.
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some radish for my butties tomorow
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my first cutting of asparagus from the garden and chard for tonight's dinner.
still feel :tongue2: from my cold.
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First cut of the chard last night - bag full steamed and then tossed in a little oil and whole grain mustard. Very nice :tongue2: very "green".
Id forgotten just how it reduces down to practically nothing... :(
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Second lot of Rhubarb stalks.... :D
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I have been using my turnip thininngs (marble sized) sliced with radishes in a little mayonnaise. Lots of good salad leaves every day now
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get rid off the plant from its location.
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Salad leaves and radishes for with to-nights dinner. Yummm.
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Lots of Lettuce, Mint, Parsley and Winter Savory for my salad
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That is the first gooseberry tarts of the year delish!!!!
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My first harvest of the season - lettuce for salad for tea!!
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my first "pick" of the year.. one single solitary (but very lovely) Strawberry ;)
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Strawberries here too, just a couple, one for me, one for the wife. Plants haven`t had any protection.
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had mixed salad leaves- green & red salad bowl, rocket and spinach (bordeaux) with baby corriander - and radishes, mmmmmmmmmmmm!! :)
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Today picked first lettuce, raddish and small spring onions, and some asparagus....
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For the first time since starting my asparagus bed about 7 years ago I'm actually beginning to get a bit fed up of eating it every day (for those just setting theirs up you can take that as words of encouragement if you like!) :unsure: :)
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for those just setting theirs up you can take that as words of encouragement if you like!
Looking at the pathetic spindly ferns on mine its hard to imagine I'll get a meal off them let alone have chance to get sick of them !
Yet more salad today and a few chard leaves - noticed a few strawberries are on the turn too :D
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Ive just eaten my first young turnip called market express.... strawberries look next on the menu!
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Wish i had something other that bloomin rhubarb!!!!!
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4 red + 4 light pink strawberries were taken home by my 5-years-old son, he could not wait anymore.
also had been twisting leafs off my lettuce plants several times...in the meantime, not losing the plants (a tip given by allotment neighbour).
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Radish, Lettuce grown at home which will accompany our Salmon dinner tonight 8) 8)
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Yesterday - some salad leaves and the first strawberry of the season. It was well earnt after two hours' bindweed removal
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Not really this years harvest but have just found a bunch of red onions hanging in the garage from last year - hidden by the OH's junk. Still feel solid
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i have just started picking strawberries! a handful yesterday but more on the way. :)
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small punnets worth of strawberries here, and lots more on the way :-)
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Our first crop of Aaron Pilot 8)
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First strawberry :D
(http://images45.fotki.com/v153/photos/4/768474/9346855/Photo07322-vi.jpg)
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5 Turnips, at a bit bigger than golf-ball size, absolutely lovely, and Chinese Tenderstem Broccoli.
Both very fast growers, and with the limited space on our lottie, we're thinking that these would be much more productive than other more typical crops that can take 6 months or more to mature.
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Salad for lunch and the first perfect handful of sugarsnap peas for tea :)
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Salad leaves for sandwiches tomorrow, three strawberries (which were completely sour!!).
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ive had new potatoes,from 3 small black pots,1st pot i had 12 pots about 2in round,2nd 2 days later 14 pots. a little bigger,pot 3 14 again but slightly bigger,the sets where from a bag of supermarket new potatoes,i just put 1 in each pot to see if they grew,,oh boy they where lovelly,,alas all gone now,
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not exactly my harvest rather a kind donation from my neighbour :D - lovely rocket potatoes and lettuce - going back over for my strawberries will be dozen or so -
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Cress off the windowsill :lol:
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Fresh lettuce from the greenhouse for our salad tonight.
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Last night I used a half tray of oriental veg mix in my Asian style salmon parcels. Great in a stir fry too
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Lettuce, Mint, parsley & Lavender.
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Our first real spinach this week. Trying not to be impatient when I hear of all your lovely produce - ours isn;t ready, yet!!! :tongue2:
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First of this seasons broad beans, very nice too. It's the earliest I've managed to get a crop due to the weather.
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white icicle radish and rocket also salad leaf but is a bit bitter :wub:
thinks are coming on nicely now though potato's swiss chard and lettuice and also strawberrys wont be long now :)
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(http://frugalhighlife.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5190368.jpg)
My fist crop large enough to share (OK I munched my way through a few on Tuesday while putting in my beans!)
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Carrot thinnings.... was lucky to get them off-site before eating them, but I felt compelled to let the wife try them also (she wasn't convinced about the merit of growing "cheap" vegs... I think she's a convert now!).
Oh, and another baby-gem... I really shouldn't have sown them all at the same time!
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Strawberries, that were eaten with a bacon and egg sarnie. Rocket in a sandwich with lots of cheese. New potatoes to make room for some lovely new brussel sprouts.
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sugarsnap peas and chard for a stirfry tonight :)
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Iceberg Lettuce from the greenhouse at the lottie. At home, Radish and Spring Onion.
Yep, It's a salad dinner for us tonight :)
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Had my 1st Strawberry mmm so sweet. ::)
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turnips and peas.
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more white icicle radish atleast 6" long and more rocket for my sarnie's.
no ripe strawberry's yet though
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lifted first lot off radish's
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Harvest so far this year: purple sprouting broccoli, last of carrots & leeks.
More recently:
Broad beans, beetroot, baby-leaf spinach, strawberries and flowers: (Wallflowers, Sweet William, roses and Iris).
No lettuce or Spring onions yet…. Seem miles behind this year.
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Been away for a few days so came home to an (almost) empty fridge. managed to harvest some lovely charlotte spuds, some fresh rocket and salad from the garden and had tomato/pepper soup (out the freezer from last years harvest) followed by frittata with the potatos and salad.....YUMMY! :)
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purple sprouting broccoli and peas
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a couple of pound of baby charlotte spuds :)
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Two lettuces very nice indeed
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a couple of pound of baby charlotte spuds :)
Now come on... spill the beans ( :wacko:) when did yours go in?
I can hardly wait to start having a furtle. :)
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I can hardly wait to start having a furtle. :)
Sounds a bit rude that does ::) ::)
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Different year, same jokes! :lol:
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A couple of courgettes an ice berg and a little gem lettuce and a couple of pound of new potatoes, they were lovely ::)
Spider :)
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Rhubarb, lettuce, potatoes and strawberries so far - looking at the broad beans won't be long for those and some of my indoor overwintering chillies are now ripening nicely
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From the tiny plot in which I run a gardening group (for people with mental health problems) - three lettuces and a handful of spinach. Looks like slugs harvested lots of rocket in the night!!!
From my patch at home - strawberries, rocket and baby spinach.
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From the tiny plot in which I run a gardening group (for people with mental health problems) - three lettuces and a handful of spinach. Looks like slugs harvested lots of rocket in the night!!!
From my patch at home - strawberries, rocket and baby spinach.
Well done you! I hope your gardening group love it too?
That reminds me I really must sow some more spinach!
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I harvested lettuce, kale, broccoli, asparagus and carrot thinnings.
this is all from the back garden because the lottie is only two months old for us.
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Lettuce, carrot thinnings and radishes
A few strawberries and the first redcurrants. They are early this year. Must be all the warm weather recently.
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Dug up the first short row of 1st-earlies, got a good harvest from those, but expecting more from the next rows. Just finished eating a few of those for dinner, together with a few sprigs from the tender-stem brocolli, and a single first courgette from the compost bin (it's growing there!).
I have to say - the potatoes were lovely (as was the courgette and the brocolli).
Happy days :)
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We harvested two lettuces and seven sticks of rhubarb
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On plot 6b, dug up two Charlottes for tonights dinner. Small yield but enough for a meal for four.
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the very last of the snap peas for tea ;)
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some spinach and my first strawberry's :)
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All Year Round Lettuce. Mixed salad leaves and rocket. I saw a couple of baby courgettes, destined to be grated into a salad today
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All Year Round Lettuce. Mixed salad leaves and rocket. I saw a couple of baby courgettes, destined to be grated into a salad today
I really must get my courgettes planted soon ::)
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My first pickings of this year. One butterhead lettuce and 6 radishes.
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The best strawberries I've ever grown ................. oh and some more lettuce
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Hundreds of strawberries so far and more on the way.. Not bad for mainly year old plants! Lots of jam making soon :)
Also picked some radishes and gave them to my parents. Lots of salad leaves too
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I had rank pulled on the first courgettes. OH wants the first fruits "tradittionelle", so will have to wait a day or two. Harvested more onions. Made some onion bhajis as well
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Just lettuce and herbs for me so far, made some nice minted pots with natural yogurt tho. Fingers crossed for some sun in the north. x
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as previously stated my first radishes. This is the first from the allotment - everything else has been the mini allotment in the back garden.
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Lettuce and radish, nothing else is big enough to eat. Picked some lavender to go with some lamb.
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Lots of lettuce for a salad - looked at spring onions but decided to give them another week.
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Picked a couple of raspberries this morning. Im guessing they were summer fruiting ones :lol: I think I'll get one pick before they head off for the incinerator, no great loss they weren't exactly mouth wateringly lovely. :(
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I picked some raspberries yesterday. Slightly confused though because the raspberries were fruiting in late autumn when I looked round the site before getting my plot so I wasn't expecting them to be fruiting in May! Mine are definitely staying!
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Sweet Williams.
Do they count? :unsure:
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Of course! Pretty stuff counts too! Thats why there are sweetpeas on me plot. A harvest for my nose and eyes :lol:
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One rocket potato and five radishes
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Broad Beans - My first ever, Oh and lettuce of course.
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well done on the beans - mine are still podding up.
picked peas ~(froze them) and lettuce.
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OOh, lovely strawbs!
We had cucumbers and courgettes this week and more spinach, yummy!!! :Da
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Lollo rosso letuce and Salad Rocket which is now bolting ::)
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Not the first things from the plot but the first full bag.
Broad Beans, Sugar Snaps, Carrots (thinnings), Turnips (golf ball size), Asparagus, New Potatoes (5 small), Onions (winter),Lettuce, Radish, Spring Onions and Strawberries.
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2 Courgettes (a warning of things to come, I fear!), carrot thinnings, couple of spring onions and some more tenderstem broccoli. Some onions already at home, throw in some spices and some scallops and 10 minutes later a perfect chinese stir-fry. Apart from a withered pepper from the bottom of the fridge all the veg was from the allotment :)
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Onions, and 5 large lettuce heads which I have brought into work to give away.
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two courgettes, lots of spinach and - tada!!- our first ever spuds (rocket)! Delish! :D :D :D
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Great thread!
Im only just starting out so not a lot coming from ours.
Today we had spring greens with our tea from the garden. Ive decided not to try to get them to be cabbages as keeping the slugs and caterpillars off them all summer will be too annoying!
Apart from herbs this is the first ever non animal thing Ive grown and eaten :)
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First peas this year and third lot of broad beans - my parents had a great evening meal. :happy:
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Nothing - birds ate my black currents :( On the bright side I found the great big fat slug that has been eating my bean seadlings :)
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First peas this year and third lot of broad beans - my parents had a great evening meal. :happy:
But you didn't?
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Gooseberries and radishes today
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more salad and rocket, lots of strawberries (although im not sure why i grow them as we never really get around to eat them ::)), a small first batch of peas which i blanched and put in the freezer, hoping that i will add lots more over the season :). one of my courgettes has a small growth :lol:.....the first of the glut, i hope :D
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Emptied the bag of odd spuds that I had left over and put in a grow bag. Enough for a couple of boilings. Spearmint and Pepermint to add to my 20+ cups of tea a day. does this count towards my 5 a day I wonder?
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lettuce, radishes and garlic chives
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Two large tubs full of strawberries, lettuce, baby-leaf spinach, spring onions, roses and sweet williams.
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First boiling of new potatoes (swift) and two large punnets of strawbs
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some Pjs and chard for tea :) a few strawbs for pud ;)
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Turnips, purple sprouting broccoli, peas and the last of the asparagus. not bad for my back garden.
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Strawberries 8) 8) 8)
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spinach, broad beans, strawberries, cerize lettuce, mmmmmmmmmmmmmm! :tongue2:
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lettuce and spring onions - lovely with my salad.
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New Potatoes, lettuce , blackcurrents, radish, carrot thinings, strawberrys and Rhubarb
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Tonight I will mostly be eating beetroot. 8)
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just finished the spinach, and sown lots more! Eating the courgettes and cucumbers., salad leaves and veg thinnings. Some early potatoes, but more top growth than actual spuds....
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a perfectly formed lettuice and loads of rocket and radish for my buutty's strawberry's are coming in thick and fast now spinach and had a firttle round my spuds :ohmy:
:lol: :lol: they are coming along nicely
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More strawberries and the first few Glen Moy raspberries that were only planted last October.
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some sour cherries and some big bunches of herbs for drying.
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Salad leaves, Basil and eggs. Very nice indeed :)
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spinach and salad leaves yum yum
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Strawberries for pudding last night, with a bit of ice cream. Utter heaven :D
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Some mange tout and baby pak choi for tea, some rocket leaves and 4 strawberries!!!
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Mother in law brought back radish, lettuces and rhubarb
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Tonights tea was a Fish Finger Salad (give it a go its lovely)
Cut and come again lettuce mixed in the packet before sowing with Rocket, which is really really nice.
But the absolute star of the show was my Lady Chsitl new potatoes, which were gorgeous. I had to lift three plants to get enough for a generous meal for two and the spuds were about the size of satsumas.
This was my first new pots from the ground and they were planted just over 12 weeks ago so I would have hoped for a better yield.
Lady Chistl
Yield 4 / 10
Taste 9 /10
Mrs FB who doesn't give praise out easily said the LC;s were perfect.
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Lettuce, radish and spring onions for lunch, piled high on fresh crusty home baked bread with just a little extra mature cheddar. :tongue2: Its not a proper sandwich if you don't have to worry that it wont fit in your mouth. :D
Couple of carrots from the greenhouse they're a decent size now, its a shame there are only a few left. :( Chard and beetroot. All went very nicely with tonights cottage pie.
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Some lettuces so now the haberno chilli has more light to it
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Yesterday I harvested...
a bowl of yummy strawberries
broad beans
the first of the peas.
2 mangetout pods (which didn't make it home :D)
a single raspberry (from my autumn canes?!)
Had a furtle around the Charlotte potatoes that have been in for 12 weeks-might pop by the plot after work to get some for dinner tonight :)
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Today's gooseberry harvest, about 3/4 of one of the 3 bushes:
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Lettuce, spring onions and a tiny cuke from my last remaining plant.
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Lovely looking load of goosegogs DD, I can feel a fool......................... :D
Taters....I've got taters! They are looking so lush and green I didn't think I was anywhere near, but had a furtle anyway.....
it was an accident, they jumped into my hand, and OH is not home to enjoy them tonight....shame. ::)
(http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv100/tosca100-dog/firsttaters017.jpg)
Be lovely with the last of the local asparagus and maybe a poached egg....or just butter! :tongue2:
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Picked the first finger carrots from the tub in the garden :D Lovely!
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First time of trying to attach a picture - hope it works ok!
First time ive grown mangetout - this is half a row since it was last picked just 2 days ago - brilliant!!!
First spuds of the year (2 plants)
Ive never grown or eaten turnips (was given some free seed so worth a try!)
Gonna go with some sausages and gravy for tea
(http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee388/gazza975526570/10062011314.jpg)
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Luverly grub :)
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Taters....I've got taters!
What variety are they Tosca?
:)
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Taters....I've got taters!
What variety are they Tosca?
:)
Ask the black devil dog!!!!! Seriously though, I think they are Charlotte. I got two small packs of seed, think the others were Arran Pilot...maybe. I thought the labels were out of range of the dog, and that I would remember what was what anyway.....yeah, right! :lol:These are the flowers of the container ones (Pilot?)
(http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv100/tosca100-dog/scotcheggs002.jpg)
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First time of trying to attach a picture - hope it works ok!
First time ive grown mangetout - this is half a row since it was last picked just 2 days ago - brilliant!!!
First spuds of the year (2 plants)
Ive never grown or eaten turnips (was given some free seed so worth a try!)
Gonna go with some sausages and gravy for tea
(http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee388/gazza975526570/10062011314.jpg)
Your turnips look lovely, they would be nice with my taters....... :D
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I think that's an Arran Pilot flower - but that's what you said isn't it - rather than Charlotte, which is a bit paler in colour. :)
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wow, looks really impressive. My spuds look like they are just starting to flower so fingers crossed for tatties soon, so far this year I have only managed lettuce, cress, chives and basil ;)
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wow, looks really impressive. My spuds look like they are just starting to flower so fingers crossed for tatties soon, so far this year I have only managed lettuce, cress, chives and basil ;)
Only? That's not a bad start at all especially considering the up & down back-to-front weather we've had this season.
I've managed strawberries, broad beans and one lot of beetroot and I've had my plots for ages. ::)
Be patient. ;)
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I've just lifted three of my pentland javelin spud plants. They've only been in ten weeks but I was getting curious and I have another 31 left plus 37 lady chrystl out of my first earlies.
I was quite pleased as I found 21 hens egg sized spuds. Some of them will be in the steamer shortly together with a few fresh cabbage leaves.
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Mashbintater has asked me to post this piccie. I assume it's destined for this thread, so here it is!
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picked another 2 pounds of strawberys yesterday, bring the total this year to 15 pounds :ohmy: never had so many, usualy lucky to get a coupple of bowls worth
also picked a meals worth of Pentland javalins, yummy
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20lb of Red Duke of York potatoes. Much better yield than last year.
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Today I picked some yellow and white chard, beetroot satsuma size,and rhubarb
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Yet to go out, but planning on potatoes and salad.....if it stops raining. If not, I suppose I could use some I have in the fridge! :dry:
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Mashbintater has asked me to post this piccie. I assume it's destined for this thread, so here it is!
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c182/G4IAR/Image134.jpg)
Thanks D.D. :)
that lil spud weighed in at just over 500g / 1b 4oz, or there-abouts lol!
Cheers! mash ;)
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Our first Cucumber of the year from the Greenhouse.
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The last of the greenhouse carrots :(
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some finger size carrots, some small green beans (started in a tub in the greenhouse, but now outside) and some PJ spuds :)
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So far: rhubarb, radish, lettuce, green garlic, spinach, peas, broad beans, charlotte potatoes, parsley, mint, coriander and strawberries. the first lot (Christne and Flamenco) picked 2 weeks ago were quite tart but last nights bowl full were really sweet and fragrent. *sigh* I LOVE gardening!
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My parsley and coriander are barely scraping past the cotyledon leaf stage. Planted in April as usual - normal conditions, time etc. :(
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The first small early parsley sowing was up and running, but the ones sown later are really sulking, like yours are.
Trouble is that there's not much left of the first lot :(
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I have a huge lettuce and some radishes from the freebie bench on the lotty. :D
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first of my new potatoes.. 2lbs + off one plant.. and the soil was as dry as a bone for most of the growing season..magic! :)
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I harvested just over 2kg's from 2 blackcurrant bushes at the weekend. I have frozen them to use later in the year.
3 more bushes to pick from sometime this week if the weather holds one evening!
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One huge lettuce
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A bowl of peas and my 1st earlies (Vales Emerald) ... complete beginner in the garden so wish...
a) I'd discovered the Potato Polls before I'd bought all my seed potatoes, still I managed a good crop and still have the 2nds and main crops to go
b) I had more patience - had to pod a LOT of peas to get a bowl full - most could've done with a little more time on the plant! Yummy tho!
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Today was a good harvest from my little garden. Lettuce, radish and rocket for lunch. Broad beans and carrots to go with the dinner and some strawberries and black currents for making jam. I love days like these.
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A sweetheart cabbage, a few finger carrots, a bowlful of strawberries and raspberries mixed :)
(and some more broadbeans :tongue2: to give away!)
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my first spuds today,maris peer yield 9 flavour 9 very pleased ,also harvested my first black tuscany kale and another massive bag of strawberry's and more rocket to brighten up my sarnies :)
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Have so far eaten basil, oregano, chives, mint, a couple of new spuds, strawberries, rhubarb swiss chard carrots & spinach. Given away several punnets of goosegogs :tongue2:.
Was going to have a salad tonight, but as my iceberg wasn't big enough, I harvested calabrese, spinach and peas, & demolished that gi-normous Ulster Prince new spud D.D posted on here for me yesterday :D.
Mash.
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my first cucumber! yayyyyyyy :D
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First of the new potatoes (no idea of the variety though!). Boiled with plenty of our apple mint. Pure white, no marks - and they were gorgeous to boot so i'm well chuffed. Plenty of mixed salad leaves, young chard, spinach and rocket and a red onion that resembled more of a large red spring onion (very tasty though!). Plus one (the first) ripe strawberry! :)
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Been Harvesting Lady Chistl 1st Earlies today. They have now been in 13 weeks and are the size of Chicken Eggs and taste divine.
Lady Chistl are the best 1st Early I have yet tasted.
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First pic is of my first ever Pentland Javelin spuds which started as a furtle and finished up as a dig (1 plant.) Been in exactly 11 weeks and show some signs of eelworm attack but unlike previous varieties it doesn't seem to have slowed them down.
Enough for 2 hungry people or 3 on a diet!
Second pic is of some carrots I harvested yesterday. Not at all impressive you might say except that I found them completely unexpectedly when turning out a tray of "mixed Italian salad leaves" into the compost bin. (Thought some of the leaves tasted a bit funny!)
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Pulled some finger carrots, a cabbage & small red onion, all made a coleslaw for tea with some PJs, and salad and my first cucumber from the plant still growing indoors :nowink: (It's up to the ceiling, whilst the ones in the greenhouse are sulking at about 18inches :( )
Now all I'm waiting for is ripe toms :D
Picked a tub of strawberries some for a jam batch tomorrow :)
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First pic is of my first ever Pentland Javelin spuds
... I thought you had sand not soil JayG ? Looking at that Im even more depressed about the state of mine.
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First pic is of my first ever Pentland Javelin spuds
... I thought you had sand not soil JayG ? Looking at that Im even more depressed about the state of mine.
A secret just between the two of us Lardman; if you look to the right of the potato pic you can see my sorry-looking, anaemic sweetcorn (this year has been even more challenging for me than the last few, and that's saying something!) :wacko:
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A couple of pounds of new potatoes, about a pound of strawberries and raspberries, a pound and a half of rhubarb, seven smallish beetroot and two and a half pounds of gooseberries. I love June!
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Raspberries, strawberries and goosegogs, none of which made it home. Two huge little gem lettuce and a couple of Saladin lettuce. Peas are a disaster this year so far, Broad Beans just starting to fatten up.
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A good half-barrel of rain water. ;)
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Sticks of rhuhbarb and a milan purple top turnip about the size of small tennis ball
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Harvested from my container grown spuds 16 delicious Charlotte potatoes.
Also tried some spinach for the first time. :tongue2: :tongue2: :tongue2: I need to try a few recipes I think!
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The very first strawberry, delicious...and will be even better when I am patient enouh to let them fully ripen ::)
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Lettuce and rocket from the back garden. Have had day off from lottie.
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a few more new potatoes :)
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today I have been mostly harvesting rain
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I know we didn't have any for a couple of months..but do we really need to catch up all in one go :blink:
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:wacko: :wacko: :wacko:
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Got in an hour before it started to rain so just managed to grab a few raspberries and broad beans before rain stopped play
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Another bag full of magetout
Took out a row of earlies and safely away in the garage
Enough strawberries for 2 of us after dinner
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I know we didn't have any for a couple of months..but do we really need to catch up all in one go :blink:
:wacko: :wacko: :wacko:
Rain plum, I was talking about the rain :nowink:
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More lettuce and first few beautiful strawbs,the other half cant believe how nice they were. Lets hope I can get some runners for more plants next year. :)
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4 pounds of broad beas this morning before the rain...that's 10 pounds since last week!Trying different recipes......steaming broad benas for a few minutes, then popping into a frying pan with pancetta..sauteeing for a few minutes then adding lemon juice adn cream and blac pepper.Fold in tagliatelle.....mmmmn!
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a few early raspberries (they didn't even make it into the tub - straight down he hatch!) Loads of gorgeous peas, a few little beetroot, some spring onions, raddish and lettuce and a couple of fingerling carrots. Yum Yum.
Oh and another tonne of strawberries!
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2 1/2 lbs of Home Guard potatoes and a cucumber from the greenhouse.
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First proper bowl of Raspberries (only been ones and twos until today) plus 4 strawberries and a handful of herbs
First garlic yesterday too
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Raspberries, garlic, onions & Broad Beans
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Hurrah for spuds!! Had loads today and our first ever peas (yum), plus more chard, courgettes and the first carrots and strawberries. Rather full now :tongue2:
Diet? What diet? ::) :D
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Curly kale, chard and a takeaway tub of mixed fruit ( cherries, strawberries ,red currents and yellow raspberries ) also had some lettuce and mixed salad leaves.
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lovely big new potatos, strawberries and the first lot of raspberries.. lovely! :) Oh and pulled a few onions to find they were going mouldy.. Cleaned them up and left them at home to dry.. hopefully will be ok
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First dwarf french bean (singular) from a plant in the polytunnel. :)
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Potatoes...........Kestrel
Peas................. Early Onward
Cauliflower....... Snowball
Calabrese.........Express Corona
Cucumber
Strawberries
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Happy bunny today
(http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m198/suec_02/Plot%20pictures/001-2.jpg)
Kohl rabi
Spring onions
Lettuce
Beetroot
Yellow Mangetout
Landcress
and yesterday got blackcurrants, my first courgette and red onions :D
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a cabbage, a handful of strawberries and raspberries (eaten before I got home) and a bunch of sweetpeas :)
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Spuds for dinner (Maris Piper), carrots without carrot fly tunnels in them, a courgette, broad beans and also for me, a bunch of sweet peas :D
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4 kilos of red currants (still loads on the bush waiting to be picked tomorrow)
4 kilos of gooseberries (as above!)
1 kilo strawberries
Handful of raspberries
The most enormous radishes I have ever seen (been on holiday for a week and they just grew and grew)
Mixed leaves
My beans are all still looking very small, especially the broad beans but they look healthy so am sure they will come.
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First potatoes lifted - very pleased with size and quantity (Arran Pilot) :happy:
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A single lettuce
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A single lettuce
I bet you'll enjoy it far more than one from the supermarket. ;)
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Hi sunshineband, did your maris pipers flower? Mine haven't flowered yet and I wasnt sure if they will or not. Cheers.
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Loads of raspberries, they don't seem to travel very well so I have to eat them all on the plot :)
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I Tried lifting my Arran Pilot earlies three weeks ago and there was very little spuds to be found, I think this was probably down to the frost getting them early May.
Anyway, tried again yesterday and was surprised at the crop I got... the basket is from 3 plants :D
Pulled some Spring Onions while I was at it.... they taste GREAT!!! :D :D
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strawberries and raspberries and a sweetheart cabbage, some finger carrots, and some spring onions :)
I wish the courgettes would hurry up though ::)
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Hi sunshineband, did your maris pipers flower? Mine haven't flowered yet and I wasnt sure if they will or not. Cheers.
hi Gembob - mine are in full flower at the moment
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Lettuce,rocket,spring onions and raspberries, lunch for tomorrow sorted!
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1 solitary blueberry (spartan)
It wasn't really ready - it had only just started to turn yesterday, but Id waited long enough ! mmmmm blueberries :tongue2:
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1 old courgette (1 foot long)
1 small marrow (1 foot long)
1 young spaghetti squash (7 inches long)
50 broad bean pods (wife also picked those I left for seeds :nowink:)
20 spring onions (many are ready but could not use all)
10 leaves of curly Kale (already have little white ply on the back of the leaves)
5 dwarf bean pods (first crop and had to pick or it willl turn too old)
1 cucumber (amazing discovery, first this year curled about 10 inches long)
1 beetroot
too many
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Hi sunshineband, did your maris pipers flower? Mine haven't flowered yet and I wasnt sure if they will or not. Cheers.
Some plants have, but they are not the spectacular flowers of some varieties.
Check under the ground to see what's happening as there mght be some decent spuds there :)
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Spuds, courgettes, salad leaves, spring onions, ground cress, garlic and another handful of peas.
The broad beans have failed completely this year, lovely strong plants but the mass of flowers just went black and shrivelled. :( Pulled them out to make way for tomatoes.
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1 medium courgettes and 2 small ones, roasted with olive oil, home grown thyme, salt and pepper and accompanied by roast chicken, roast potatoes and steamed carrots...the courgettes were the highlight :)
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3 courgettes, potatoes (can't remember what type), strawberries (enough for 4 lots of strawberries and ice cream) and 6 chillis. Continous rocket/cress/ lettuce for sarnies.
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so far...2 bunches of baby carrots and a lone yellow courgette :)
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New potatoes, lettuce, beetroot and baby-leaf spinach. :happy:
I didn't have time to stop and pick the raspberries or the strawberries. :(
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More strawberries, about 10 raspberries! 4 courgettes & a bag of new potatoes for tea.
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New potatoes, french beans and finger carrots ;)
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Another succulent courgette, radishes and a little gem lettuce :D
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New potatoes, french beans and finger carrots ;)
French beans? Cor... mine have hardly got flowers on yet. :(
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Here's me dinner!
(http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv100/tosca100-dog/flowers014.jpg)
Yummy!
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Here's me dinner!
(http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv100/tosca100-dog/flowers014.jpg)
Yummy!
Looks great - love seeing peoples harvests!!
For me it was more mangetout - took out another two rows of pots, nipped up for some lettuce, raddishes and spring onions for dinner with some scapmi
Adnired the calbrese thats coming on well and reckon will be eating that sooner rather than later
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About a pound of redcurrants and a pound of strawberries, I think I feel some jam coming on.
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1.8 Kg of Sharpe's Express. They'll be nice with some freshly picked mint later. :D
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Good day today, ducking between the downpours!
1.6kg of new potatoes from a planter bag, 3 courgettes, lettuce, rocket, 6 strawbs and another colander full of Raspberries!
:)
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First of the Navet de Nancy turnips, fantastic purple colour on top, along with the edible turnip tops and some more Tuskar first early potatoes. Also am told that the tops from broad bean plants I have nipped off can be steamed and are quite tasty, so I am going to try those too.
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1.8 Kg of Sharpe's Express. They'll be nice with some freshly picked mint later. :D
And some little gem, dwarf french beans and american land cress. :)
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Lots of spicy mix salad leaves, beetroot, spring onions, land cress herbs and potatoes.
Found a label in the potatoes, the ones that this pic came from.
(http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv100/tosca100-dog/scotcheggs003.jpg)
They are Maris Peer, and very delicious they are too.
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Very pretty flowers! :D
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Today peas, carrots, strawberries , spring onion (not in picture ) and gooseberries. Had some of the peas carrots and spring onion on a bed of allotment salad leaves and (toms and cucumber)( shop brought) last two items with chicken, new pots and couscous. Nice :)
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On Wednesday, I harvested home grown peas (meteor), carrots (amsterdam -well recommended ;)) & new pots (pentland javelins), served them with poached haddock & tartar sauce. Followed up with home made natural yogurt & fresh fruit (not from plot)
Thurs, new pots, carrots (as above) other veg not from plot, and savoury mince.
Last night, nothing home-grown, but tonight! Our first almost complete home-grown salad (was a very dry spring y'know!)
Lettuce, supposed to be iceberg, but more like webb :blink:, radish (breakfast), baby beetroot (name escapes me), spring onions (white lisbon), new pots (pentlands) toms & cucs from supermarket & tuna.
Really feel like we're reaping rewards now :D
Cheers! Mash :)
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One ripe and very sweet cherry tomato! :happy:
(Sweet Million)
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Another good handfull of turnips - simply roasted with oil, sea salt and black pepper - yummy!!
(http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee388/gazza975526570/260620113321.jpg)
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A cauli :D, delish! ;)
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Thanks for the advise about the spuds, raspberries and strawbs for me today. ummmmmmm.
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More spuds, the first 4 peapods - tasted lovely, can't wait for the rest. Also our first strawberries - yum yum.
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My very 1st harvest of which i am pleased at a lettuce, broad beans, raspberries ,peas, and black currant galore xx :D
Just need to redirect my pumpkins as they have gone mad
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A Little Gem lettuce, spinach, peas (just a few, but the thought counts), strawberries an onion and a small box of blackcurrants from the next allotment (trade for watering, not scrumping). First marrow is about six inches long; not sure how long I can resist it....
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yesterday....4lb of strawberries... and between me an my girls, we ate them already!
Oh, and some whitecurrants too
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A romaine lettuce and the first beetroot and carrots. They`ve doubled in size in the last few days since I last checked.
The very first Polka autumn raspberries, (just three), from canes planted last October. Each picked and eaten in two seconds flat. :)
(http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa363/trevor3457/DSC00689.jpg)
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I dug up my first ever potatoes. :D Also spring onions, broads beans, iceberg lettuce and kale.
everybody's stuff looks nice
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Lots of raspberries recently! Eagerly awaiting strawberries too! :D Planted some pumpkins ( :) ) & dill & have some chives too, not been cut yet though :tongue2:
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Broadbeans, onions, gooseberries, blackcurrants. :D
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We picked some cherries, a bit bitter, but not bad!
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Lovely, freshly picked, mizuna salad for lunch...more strawberries for pud :)
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Added to dinner last night, one yellow courgette, thyme, corriander and a massive bowl of blueberries for pudding. Fisrt success with blueberries and worth the effort :D
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New potatoes (14 of them), two Little Gem lettuce + some thinnings from the All the Year Round, a few peas, more spinach.
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is to to late to sow parsnip seeds now. Can you still get plants from the nurseries at this time of the year to plant now for winter
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Harvested: caulies, calabrese and broad beans today.
(http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff221/Aunt__Sally/Caulies.jpg) (http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff221/Aunt__Sally/BBs.jpg)
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6lb raspberries, 3lb strawberries, 8lb gooseberries (to add to the 8lb already in the freezer), 4lb redcurrants (to add to the 10lb already in the freezer - but that's the last of them now), some baby beetroot, radishes and lettuce.
I feel a jam making day coming on tomorrow.
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jam making made just a few jars last week with black currants, cherrys, raspberries, apricots picked today lettuce so nicer than shop bought broad beans and strawberries ::) going back lata see what i have missed to pick
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Courgettes, garlic, potatoes and lots of mint.
Added a pack of feta and a few sheets of filo to make boureki pie. Lovely, tastes all the better when they were growing an hour ago!
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onion and potato bhajis and green salad..........all harvested ingredients except the gram flour & spices :)
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Today I picked 2lb of rasberries, a couple of strawberries, new potatoes and some radishes, life just gets better! Oh and a tatty cabbage to take home for the chickens.
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Yesterdays harvest, but was a bit late by the time my jam reached setting point to post!
Another batch of raspberries which are now 4 jars of jam - yummy!
2.5kilos of potatoes from a planter, bowl of strawberries and best of all (as failed miserably last year) a very large bowl of fresh peas, sons bedtime snack was fresh peas :D
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mine
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Another load of Brad Beans, shame I don't like them but OH and Dad do. Nice big bag of 'Rocket' spuds and three large racks of White & Red onions, garlic and shallots.
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mine
What a lovely haul.... thanks for sharing the picture. Something for you to look back at next year and compare results. ;)
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Nothing much today, except that when I pulled up the radishes in one of the raised beds (gone to seed and needed the space), I found a potato that had been quietly growing in the middle. I pulled it up and found four huge potatoes, so that sorts tea... :)
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Just picked another tasty Little Gem lettuce to go in the BLTs* I am making for lunch. We've only been picking them since last weekend, with the "slow" weather. ::) I still can't receommend them highly enough as a great lettuce to grow and eat of course. :)
*Sadly, the tomatoes are still shop-bought. :(
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Thanks Learner, they are already better than last years so I guess I am doing something right. Its only my 2nd season ;)
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Another 1.5lb Strawberries, some radishes, some rocket....
But I reckon I'll get some broad beans over the weekend (not exactly a feast, as we have only got two broad bean plants: our girls brought them home from school having planted them in nursery class, and even though one got attacked by snails early on, it's recovered well on a "side branch" and we've got about 8-10 pods on each, which are fattening up well).
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Raspberries (red and gold), strawbs, cherries, blackcurrants and redcurrants :)
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Today took 3 good sized calbrese heads for the weekend, a good bagfull of peas, a handfull of spring onions, some raddishes and a bag full of salad
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Lots of Rocket spuds, picked Rhubarb, peas, radish, lettuce, beetroot, carrots, courgette and cucumber. Quite a healthy stock today
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Broad beans, peas and the first runner beans.
(http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa363/trevor3457/DSC00704.jpg)
Also the first three heads of calabrese Beaumont.
(http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa363/trevor3457/DSC00705.jpg)
Plus more purple sprouting. Not netted but pest free!
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Another 1.3 and a bit Kg of Sharpe's Express potatoes from 5 plants so not quite as good as last weeks yield. I was hoping the yields to get better as we progress into the wider parts of the bed - we'll see, that was probably just a glitch. ;)
There will be more Little Gem and other salad ingredients later. :)
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crikey! Just dug up one of my Nadine second earlies, cos I was so curious to see how they were doing - not having planted Nadine before - WELL!! Just that one plant filled a carrier bag with beautiful oval creamy spuds. Just one spud was enough to feed both moi and OH for lunch - beautiful waxy flesh. :tongue2: :tongue2: Just hope they store well, as I have another 30 plants in........................then there's the 70 Maris Piper to go............ :unsure:
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Well, just this week:
- 3 lettuces (tom thumb)
- 3 lettuces (lolla rossa)
- Dozens of crunchy radishes,
- Spring onions,
- Tons of strawberries and rasberries :tongue2:
- A tomatoe! :D
- Rocket
- Peas
- Broad beans
Not too bad :tongue2: :D
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not a bad haul there jamie :)
i have dug up 4 potato plants and loads of swiss chard and a lettuce all for my dad,
and a lettuce swiss chard and beetroot for myself
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Chard, spuds, peas, carrots, salad leaves, spring onions and rhubarb. Mmmmmm
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Lettuce broad beans few spring onions and was tempted with a courgette but left for tomorrow :tongue2:
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enjoy your marrow :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Lettuce for lunch (well for the BLT!)
Then onion, broccoli, courgette, peas, baby carrots and leek seedlings for tonights stir fry
Good feeling when doing the shopping this week the only veg I had to buy was tomatoes!
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Shallots (and lots). :) I'll weigh them later....
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I have just shelled one and a half pounds of Early Onward Peas.
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A lettuce for tea
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A mini-cucumber!
The last of the early spuds (PJs) a handful of green beans, 3 finger carrots and some chard :)
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Carrots, potatoes, shallots, mangetout, courgettes, broad beans, perp spinach, bay leaves thyme and parsley. Made a lovely summer soup. :)
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1st Cauli (hadn't noticed it growing, to be honest, until yesterday)
(http://www.summat.co.uk/IMG_0219.JPG)
...together with broad beans and carrots and a globe courgette, together with the stockpile of 1st-earlies at home that's tea sorted.
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and a spare carrot, "more" courgettes (yellow), mange-tout and a stalk from the chinese tender stem brocolli, that's a stir-fry for tea tomorrow :)
Happy days :)
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Nice haul!
Today i took home a few raspberries, lots of new (pentland javelin) potatos, a big bag of peas, about 5 onions and a couple of the garlics :)
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strawberries, strawberries, strawberries!!
Also managed to get enough leaves for a mixed leaf and radish salad for 4 adults and 4 kids on Saturday, which I was very pleased about :)
And then the last of the whitecurrants to go with a home-made chocolate cake :)
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Lettuce, radish and the first of the beetroots.
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I picked enough peas to get some home ::)
A couple of red banana shallots and a couple of male pumpkin flowers for a blind date with the female only flowers in the garden :D
Next plot holder gave me a couple of courgettes to stop me feeling deprived, so gave him a couple of pots of basil in exchange ;)
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Picked some dwarf beans to include in our salad tonight.
4 more Bolthardy Golf ball sized beets are now boiling in the kitchen and have already trimmed some red barons/red spring onions + a few tasty french brekkies.
Gazza
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A little bit/handful of blueberries, peas, carrots, potatoes, baby kale leaves (my new favourite green), broccoli (most seems to have started to flower :( ) and some little courgettes (determined to convince the family they like them!!) oh and a lettuce :tongue2: A jolly happy newbie grower!
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A bag of Rocket potatoes
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Picked two large carrier bags of broad beans. Spent two hours shelling them at my daughter`s house while the missus was babysitting our grandchildren. Put big bowl of beans on the baby seat in the back of the car to bring them back to freeze them. On the way home had to do an emergency stop to avoid being rammed by some brainless boy racer who didn`t as much as slow down at a road junction, and then had to spend another fifteen minutes picking up beans from every crevice and under the seats etc. >:(
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Another Courgette that just appeared over night, big bowl of peas and an onion, plus raspberries to snack on as the above mentioned were picked.
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Another Courgette that just appeared over night......
That courgette fairy does that, you know. ;) :D
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Nettles, Docks, Thistles, Grass ::)
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Nettles, Docks, Thistles, Grass ::)
That's a good sign!
Nettles = fertile soil
Docks, thistles and grass = enough warmth & water
The veg should be fine eventually...... ;)
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The veg should be fine eventually......
I know,
It's because i've had a fully productive and well kept plot in the past that im finding it a little frustrating lets say at the moment to have to start all over again
All will be good for next year, and i'll get as much going as i can until mid August then thats it for sowing/planting, then harvest whats read as it's ready.
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The veg should be fine eventually......
I know,
It's because i've had a fully productive and well kept plot in the past that im finding it a little frustrating lets say at the moment to have to start all over again
All will be good for next year, and i'll get as much going as i can until mid August then thats it for sowing/planting, then harvest whats read as it's ready.
Sounds sensible to me.
I've not found it easy this year with less free time and then only very short visits to the plot.
Today I planned to go and dig more potatoes but, a dentist visit and two fillings later, it rained so......try again tomorrow. ;)
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Loads of spuds, lettuce and a handful of berries a day at the moment. Peas have flowers now, fingers crossed that they wont be long. Leeks, beets, beans,turnip and carrots look happy. Not doing too bad for a back yard. :)
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Knowing that I have no courgettes yet ::) my friend kindly brought me some of hers.....
but they were the size of marrows! :nowink:
One is stuffed and in the oven right now, with peas and chard from my plot :)
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Just had dinner made from recent harvest.
A stir fry with autumn onions, kailaan, a single brocolli spear, yellow mangetout, pak choi, courgette, broad beans and spring onions :)
(Other half not in so didn't bother with the meat for once :tongue2: )
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Gone-to-seed salad leaves, radish, spring onion, peas, taters and a few raspberries.
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lots of salad and rocket and some dwarf french beans....ooooh, i nearly forgot, my first tomato! :) Sungold, as recommended by the taste test on this site, this is the first time i have grown them and i am VERY impressed. i had to cut it in half to share with my hubby and both of us cant wait for the rest to ripen...thanks guys for the recommendation :D
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Beetroot, Iceberg Lettuce, PSB, Kestrel and Charlotte Potatoes and Carrots.
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Carrots and Rainbow Chard. :)
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Took 3 minni courgettes for last nights tea.
Very nice they were too, first tiime i've taken them so small 4inch long.
I shall be taking them small more often.
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I harvested one red lettuce (type unknown mixed seed), one iceberg lettuce and new potatoes.
courgettes not quite yet but very soon - maybe Sunday.
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More peas - these went into the freezer :)
Some carrots and cabbage for coleslaw.
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As I type the following are having a steam bath to the desired temp............
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Our 1st Spuds from our plot....plus some carrots/shallots/spinach/and 2 different beans.
Cant wait !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gazza
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Carrots and broad beans for tonights dinner. :)
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Beetroot, Tatties, climbing beans, dwarf beans. Really excited that I expect to be self sufficient in fresh harvest until November with a bit of luck. Had a really gorgeous large cabbage. First time I had grown this type it was so sweet
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Peas!!!!! :lol:
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2.87 kilos of shelled broad beans, just finished blanching, bagging and finding space in the freezer. Time for a cuppa! :mellow:
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The last the of the broadbeans, bit disappointing from 16sq Ft (4x4 block) just under 4lbs of beans in total, 2 Bolthardy beets and a few chard leaves.
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Spuds. peas, last of the strawberries, spring onions ;)
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Rockets, beetroots, carrots, French and Runner beans, cabbage, shallots and onions. :)
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potatoes, chard, courgettes and garlic.
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Turnip which was the best i have ever tasted the wee sweet ones and some cabbage superb
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Dug some more spuds,picked some keynan beans and pulled and trimmed the remaining carrots
+ snipped off a few more spinach leaves.....cant tell you how tasty all the aformentioned are....O I just did......bloomin deeeeelish.!!!!!!!!!... :D
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Id shove it all in a pasty if I could find half a cow and 10 yards of pastry..... ;)
Gazza
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harvested courgette, (at last!) red onion and peas - to go with pasta & mozzarella. Fantastico :D
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Remainder of the Sharpe's Express firsts lifted, another 5.5 Kg making 8.6 Kg in total of that variety. The yield could have been better, but using that piece of ground was a bit of an afterthought and it wasn't particularly well pre-treated. Not too bad though, considering we didn't like them and won't grow them again! ::) :D The foliage on the LC's is just starting to go over so they'll be coming soon and I am looking forward to those! :)
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Picked today :D
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Winter planted garlic, little gem. :)
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more chard ::) and some more peas :)
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:ohmy: Dinner porn ! :nowink: :D
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:D :D :D
Beetroot, peas, spring onions.
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Ist early potatoes - quite a lot, not weighed yet
Broad beans, Aquadulce Longpod - 1kg
Peas - Hatif d'Annonay, 700g
3 beetroots - 3
strawberries
shallots
1 large summer cabbage - Precoce de Louviers, weighing 1.3 kg!
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Best red onion harvest yet :)
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Three lettuces today
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New pots, Pentlanmd Javelin, Spinach Beet, Lettuce/salad bowl, beetroot, strawberries, spring onion
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Homeguard potatoes
peas
psb
cabbage
carrots
onions and shallots
garlic
lettuce
spring onions
strawberries
and 1st spagetti squash
so very pleased and also spagetti squash was very nice not had it before
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also beetroot and silverskin onions forgot those
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Yesterday some bootiful big summer broccoli. :happy:
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a pretty productive weekend :)
strawberries on Saturday morning for breakfast
radishes and salad leaves to go with Saturday lunch
some teeny Parmex carrots as a snack Saturday afternoon
the whole crop of broadbeans (only 2 plants!) to go in a salad with lunch on Sunday
the last of the whitecurrants (although I said that before, but then we found an un-picked branch yesterday) as a snack for our girls!
potatoes (can't remember the varieties :blush:)
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The first chillis, variety Hot Stuff. Most between about 80 and 100 mm in length, now strung on their Ristra. :)
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Spuds - 2 plants pulled, 148 to go!!
Strawbs - 6" plant pot nearly filled
Beetroot - 3 today
Spring Onion - just 6 today, full of flavour.
Only in our 3rd year and this is the best crop we've had so far. Everything else is coming up great too :)
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Shallots... lots :happy:
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Shallots, beetroot, brocolli, radish and rocket spuds
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A carrier bag of the last of the Broad Beans, A row of peas which yealded just enough for one meal and enough carrot thinings to add to the peas. As I had not been for three days I also picked an arm full of Sweet Peas
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Cucumber, salad leaves, peas and spring onions.
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Two courgettes .... ::)
Well, you gotta start somewhere.... :lol:
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just over 2 kg of charlotte spuds delicious :D and some wild raspberries which we ate from the plant
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Cucumber, courgettes; lettuce, cabbage and some rocket potatoes
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More cucumber, more peas, more leaves, spring onions, radish, garlic.
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Raspberries from the few canes I have at home and 200 grams found walking the dog. The jam season has started. Lettuce, pots and the peas are coming along nicely.
:)
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One small cuke, some radish and lots of lettuce leaves. :)
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First of the yellow ball courgettes (amongst other things). More pretty please! :tongue2:
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charlotte spuds and onions also spring onions and mange tout
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The courgette fairy has been here again, plus more peas :)
and more manky onions :(...at least the good bits get chopped and go in the freezer ::)
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The courgette fairy has been here again, plus more peas :)
and more manky onions :(...at least the good bits get chopped and go in the freezer ::)
Loads of fried onions!!!! ;) :happy:
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Wild raspberries, red currents, blackberries all picked along my little river bank a lb of each, from up the lottie i picked peas 2lb, carrots, cauli, calabreaze,another 6 corgettes, beetroot, lettuce, spring onions, a carrier bag full of spinich leaves, 1 cucumber, 2 chillies, 1 pepper and my first tomatoe.
I spent hours preserving and cooking tonight.
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The last of the mangetout, a good lot of broad beans with plenty left for later, two calabrese heads, half a dozen courgettes, the first of the garden peas and a few spring onions for tonight's salad - oh, and a lettuce. Something has been rampaging through my Cara potatoes, possibly a fox or a badger to judge by the dog's interest. It looked worse than it actually was and when I started to re-arrange the foliage most seemed intact.
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a carrier bag full of tomatoes
several cucumbers
more potatoes
about a kilo of raspberries
more onions
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almost done with the strawberries. reckon one or two more small bowls and that'll be it for thie year. Now, where are those pots I saved for the runners....? ::)
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Nearly 3Lb Paris silverskins and the first 3 Chillies (Cayenne) :tongue2:
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Bordeaux spinach, garlic, one Hot Stuff chilli and one Apache.
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3 more courgettes and a single cherry that i found hiding on the tree, OH really enjoyed it.
Next year there will hopefully be enough for all 4 of us.
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Courgettes, Sweet Peas, New pots, carrotts & another large bowl of raspberries. Strawberries a real flop for me this year
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Courgette, two cucumber, one pepper, kale, mixed herbs for a crust, salad leaves, spring onion, potatoes and sweet peas.
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One full water-butt at this rate. ;)
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One full water-butt at this rate. ;)
Or two and a barrel already. ;)
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One full water-butt at this rate. ;)
Or two and a barrel already. ;)
You've been looking out of the window :lol:
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One full water-butt at this rate. ;)
Or two and a barrel already. ;)
You've been looking out of the window :lol:
No, just listening to it most of the night! :( Its thinking about going away now. :)
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Raining all morning and now I am at work the sun is shining, not fair >:( >:(
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Raining all morning and now I am at work the sun is shining, not fair >:( >:(
So you harvested rain and now sun? :)
White onion, carrots to go in a cottage pie. :D
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Lots of peas, broad beans, 2 beetroot, 1 courgette, the first of the tuscan kale, a few strawberries. Oh, and 2 spring onions someone had dropped on the road at the top of the allotments. Seemed a pity to waste them....
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charlotte spuds and carrots along with kale chard and a massive colly :)
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Got to the allotment around 2 just when the rain was easing off.
Pulled up 3 full carrier bags full of onions as the rot had started to set in on a few when last checked. Pulled a kestrel plant as was starting to look poorly and got a lot of nice fat potatos. Also pulled up 10 or so garlic and was happy with the results.. Oh and ate a few raspberries while there but not enough to take home
And now to dry out and cut up all the onions.. Not sure we have enough space in the freezer :S
Oh and 5 minutes after i left it started raining again ;)
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pulled up 2 lettuce and 5 beetroot to go with yesterdays harvest :)
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Here are those shallots, plaited at last! ::) There will be lettuce and spinach and other salad ingredients today... :)
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Oh, I forgot to say shallots bar 56 small ones kept back for planting next time. :)
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Potatoes and carrots, enough for 2 very, very generous portions and some slightly pink caulies. All will be served with some lamb that grew up in the field next door. Oh and some mint that I will get right now!
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Beetroot, leaves, chard, radish, peas, spring onion, potatoes and cucumber.
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first proper crop from my yellow-sun tomatoes (very nice, although the bigger ones were a bit "floury"), another lovely salad from the spicy leaf selection.
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A Hispi cabbage, some brocolli, potatoes, courgette, sugarsnap peas and 6lb of blackcurrants.
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Charlotte and Kestrel Potatoes, Cucumbers, Courgettes and our first picking of Runner Beans.
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Masses of Bordeaux Spinach and Rainbow Chard and the second Crystal Lemon cuc. :)
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First tomatoes from our greenhouse at home (too wet to get to the plot today :tongue2: plus some gorgeous basil :D
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a large courgette (bless the rain), lady chrystl potatoes and broad beans. very rainy on the plot - so left it to enjoy the water.
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Picked about a dozen radish for my butty's tomorrow..lovely and pappery they are too.
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Two small cukes - snacked on they were really good.
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<comic store guy>
Worst season..... ever !
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Pulled out the last of the calbrese - got another 20 or so plants which should be ready in another month or so.
Pulled out my shallots - really happy with them - first time of growing
Then it rained so i sat in a portakabin we have. Then it rained some more. Then some more. So i came home for a coffee and a butterfly bun instead!!!
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Sunday picked Huge Hispi cabbage, Iceberg lettuce, spring onions white and red, cucmber,carrots,petit pois,runner beans and some spuds ;)
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Harvested exactly two and a half kilos of Pink Fir Apple from a potato growing bag. :) I had planted eight small tubers at two different levels
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Nothing. Left the garden to the weather and went out for lunch! ::)
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Couple of garlic bulbs for roasting and
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a small courgette.
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a small courgette
Woo Hoo :lol:
I picked some chard (sans stems ;)) a courgette and...............................................................
The first ripe plum tomato :D
:lol:
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First picking of runner beans yesterday. They are late this year, but have loads of flowers on.
Picked a huge cabbage which split on touching it, but was nice and clean inside. It nearly crippled me carrying it home.
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a small courgette
Woo Hoo :lol:
:D :D :D Could be the first and last. Out of 11 plants remaining, it the only one remotely big enough to bear any fruit yet. I've been saying this for some weeks about the plasnt size and time is now getting on. ::)
The first ripe plum tomato :D
:lol:
Great! 8)
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Some peas today (now have belly ache!) and a few strawberries :)
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Peas, a couple of broad beans from first crop - new beans starting to pod now, 2 beetroot, thinned some carrots but big enough to eat, a Webb's Wonder lettuce (good specimen), another large Precoce de Louviers cabbage (plus its own slug eating its way through, :mad:, and a good crop of Edgecote Purple potatoes from 2 plants. Will see how they cook.
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Picked a lot yesterday - all my onions that had not rotted :( , some beetroot, and our first carrots - although some were funny shaped, no carrot fly!
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Picked my first courgette of the season, and remembered years gone by when the neighbours used to hide when they saw me coming armed with spares (wonderful days, oh how we laughed!) :lol:
Also picked my first Autumn Bliss raspberry (and yes, they were all cut down to the ground last winter!) :tongue2:
Strange year? Yup!
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Picked two small courgettes - used them in tonight's casserole. Picked some more beetroot - they are doing really well.
Think I will be able to pick some of my outdoor tomatoes soon - they are just on the turn. Like some other people on here - it is the outdoor toms that are doing best. The indoor ones are very small and green still.
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a small courgette.
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Beat you both to the courgette - yesterday (even though the quote says 26th February 1974..... :ohmy:). :D Our beetroot isn't doing though and its normally a great crop. :unsure:
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Last of the peas, potatoes (only enough for one more meal) last of the present crop of spring onions, a few baby beets, leaves.
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Dug about 5lb of spuds, some more radish and a cabbage that my plot neighbour gave me.
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Three huge heads of broccoli (filled a carried bag to bursting), yellow as well as green round courgettes (one football sized that I'd missed ::)), a lovely bag of spuds dug in the rain and a handful of barlotti beans.
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Sounds like a nice harvest there Learner :D
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Sounds like a nice harvest there Learner :D
Thanks Jamie..
I was quite chuffed considering the weather and my lack of time at the moment. Nice to have something to show for the effort and share. Tastes good too ;)
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Today I am digging up my Desiree potatoes - not willingly, but because there is about 50% slug damage to the three plants I have already dug out and I'd rather have half the crop intact than most or all of it damaged. If they're not too badly damaged I'm cutting out the affected part and making chips of what is left, blanching and freezing them. Unfortunately, most are very badly damaged and beyond any salvage at all. Also getting some Calabrese, spring onions and peas. I had a Cauliflower yesterday and some spinach for a salad.
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1 webb, 1 iceberg lettuce, red and white spring onions, peas, cucumber, tomatoes and calabrese (1st time I have grown it)
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Some yellow & red beetroot, yellow & green courgettes, broad beans, cucumber, turnip, spinach and peas.
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15.5 Kg Lady Christl spuds lifted yesterday. Looking forward to trying some of them today. :)
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Had the last of our taters yesterday.(http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/tears/t2333.gif) (http://yoursmiles.org/t-tears.php?page=1)
Runners are about 6" so they will be next. Still picking chard, courgettes, salad leaves.
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Had the last of our taters yesterday.(http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/tears/t2333.gif) (http://yoursmiles.org/t-tears.php?page=1)
We have the Ambo to go still, they'll be interesting going by what DD has told us in previous years. :)
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Yesterday again, about 25 over-wintered white onions grown from sets donated by a friend who had no more space for them in his garden.
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Two cucumbers, more beetroot and radishes - all eaten with a salad at lunchtime. :)
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Tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, chard and onions.
Frittata and salad for tea I think ;)
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My first tomato this year (Sweet Million.)
Not actually quite ready (I was only really trying to get a closer look but it "fell off"!) ::)
Tasted rubbish!
Rest of them are nowhere near ripe but I'm expecting better things soon (so is a good friend of mine for whom I'm growing them really.) :unsure:
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Couple of red onions to check the size - they're looking close and in fact are. :) Sweet in a simply dressed salad with Crystal Lemon and Little Gem alongside the first Lady Christl of the year (http://bestsmileys.com/drooling/3.gif) and smoked Mackerel. :)
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More Courgettes, Cucumbers and Runner Beans. On the fruit side our first picking of Bramleys.
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My first tomato this year (Sweet Million.)
Not actually quite ready (I was only really trying to get a closer look but it "fell off"!) ::)
Tasted rubbish!
Rest of them are nowhere near ripe but I'm expecting better things soon (so is a good friend of mine for whom I'm growing them really.) :unsure:
Just goes to show the south is sunnier and warmer. We've been picking Sweet Million for about two weeks. Sun Gold and Bambino followed closely behind. All just beginning to give a full sweet flavour but last year's were sweeter. Patience needed. ::)
Here's wishing you a speedy ripening crop JayG :)
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Spring onions, cucumber, lettuce, tomatoes,peppers, french beans,carrots, spuds,beetroot, courgettes,blackberries,raspberries and red currents.
Thats dinner and desert done for 2 days.
This our first year growing our own fruit and veg and i think we are well and truly hooked.
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Cucumber, mint and garlic for tzatziki, long green pepper, spring onions, leaves and a courgette flower for salad, and one courgette (wafer thin sliced, dusted with salted flour and fried till crisp....mmmmm)
Just had to add tomato, olives and haloumi for a very satisfying lunch. :tongue2:
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Very nice indeed Tosca! :D
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4 cobs of minipop corn. :D
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4 cobs of minipop corn. :D
Oh nice! I've given up on my corn this year - it hasn't grown at all since i planted it out 6 weeks ago - its all of thee inches high despite feeding, watering and general loving :(
Today i harvests some new spuds, some carrots, some beetroot, some lettuce (lollo rosso and counter) some spring onions, some chives and thyme, and a small handfull of raspberries, oh and the first french beans from my dwarf plants! seriously Yum! we had them for tea tonight with the new potatos.
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That's a shame about your corn but a lovely crop of other things anyway. :) We have our minipop in the polytunnel and, having never grown it, we weren't sure when to harvest. There were tassles so we thought they'd be there and they were. :) Our beetroot isn't playing ball at all this year. :(
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Now that's an idea. Minipop in the ploytunnel.
Thanks, Argyllie :D
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The courgette fairy has been :D
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Climbing French Bean, Yet more Spuds and Peas.
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Now that's an idea. Minipop in the ploytunnel.
Thanks, Argyllie :D
;) :D
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Now that's an idea. Minipop in the ploytunnel.
Thanks, Argyllie :D
i will remember that next year , mine is outside and not showing any sighns of fruiting yet
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A mountain of parsley chopped and frozen ready for winter, three runner beans (first of the year)
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That's a shame about your corn but a lovely crop of other things anyway. :) We have our minipop in the polytunnel and, having never grown it, we weren't sure when to harvest. There were tassles so we thought they'd be there and they were. :) Our beetroot isn't playing ball at all this year. :(
Our beetroot has gone bonkers this year, i'll swap you some beets for some corn! ;)
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courgettes again! & plum tomatoes...........loads of chard leaves went on the compost heap cos I can't keep up with it :D
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Our beetroot isn't playing ball at all this year. :(
Our beetroot has gone bonkers this year, i'll swap you some beets for some corn! ;)
Now there's an offer! :D It must be the weather or more accurately the general temperature up here this "summer", I think Debz (in Glasgow) said her beetroot isn't doing well either. :(
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First runners of the year, and several kilos of shallots - nice banana ones as well as round :D
and of course some courgettes to share ;)
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Peas, Courgettes, Beetroot and Tomatoes.
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Lots of lovely black Tuscan kale, peas, 1 pak choi, a Webb's wonder lettuce, some Edgecote Purple potatoes and wonder of wonders some large carrots untroubled by carrot fly. The fleece has done the trick.
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PS Forgot, 3 courgettes too.
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Just lifeted our red onions and first batch of carrots!
I am soooooo pleased with them! nine inch carrots anyone??? :D
Also have lots of lovely french beans coming every day!
Plans to put in a second raised bed are fast becoming concrete!
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Our beetroot isn't playing ball at all this year. :(
Our beetroot has gone bonkers this year, i'll swap you some beets for some corn! ;)
Now there's an offer! :D It must be the weather or more accurately the general temperature up here this "summer", I think Debz (in Glasgow) said her beetroot isn't doing well either. :(
Our temps have not been good either but I have had some lovely beetroot - really yummy. :) (runs away and hides).
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3 carrier bags full of pentland javelin, and some nice spuds in there too :D
carrots mange tout and broad beans along with spring onion
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5 Courgetts :lol:
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My first tomato at long last. A tumbling tom hopefully to be followed by lots more. Oh and a couple of little gem lettuce. First time growing them and they look good.
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At the risk of double posting, I've posted this also in my diary as I'm trying to keep a record at least for myself, even if no one else is interested!
Something I don't get to see very often. Next to it is one of my garlics, harvested today. There's only 5 cloves in it, so no peeling piddly little ones.
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c182/G4IAR/P1010130.jpg)
(It's a Ł2 coin, and "Music" hard-neck garlic, by the way!)
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harvested today. There's only 5 cloves in it, so no peeling piddly little ones.
I do like music, when it grows well it really does grow well.
I picked some tomatoes - poor yield this year but I can't complain about the fruit.
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Going to pick some courgettes and some dahlias later.
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Half a carrier bag of the last Rocket potatoes
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Chard! :)
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One tomato from my 100/1000's outdoor bush plants - tasted very good. :) Looks like lots more should be ready soon - which is more than can be said for my greenhouse toms.
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You're ahead of us Springlands, but the behaviour pattern is the same - outdoor 100s and 1000s starting to fruit, indoor ones, not.
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You're ahead of us Springlands, but the behaviour pattern is the same - outdoor 100s and 1000s starting to fruit, indoor ones, not.
Arygllie - I have plenty of fruit on the greenhouse toms - it is just very green and shows no sign of turning. A very crazy year.
To-days haul - spring onions, beetroot, lots of radish and possibly another tomato (will be in a salad at lunchtime) 3 courgettes.
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The last of the spring cabbage, yum with lamb.
Peas, lots of!
Beetroot, just a ew small ones eaten raw.
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My first tomato this year (Sweet Million.)
Not actually quite ready (I was only really trying to get a closer look but it "fell off"!) ::)
Tasted rubbish!
Rest of them are nowhere near ripe but I'm expecting better things soon (so is a good friend of mine for whom I'm growing them really.) :unsure:
Tried another one today; juicy, sweet with a touch of acid - just how I like them! There does seem to be quite a lot of variation in size though (some of them are quite big for "cherry" tomatoes.)
Still facing a long wait for the beefsteak and plum toms though, and I don't think I'll need to rent a market stall to get rid of them all either! ::)
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courgettes potatoes to a lovely size lettuces all year round green and a lovely red frilly 1 of which i cant remember name also 2 cucumbers again this is my 4th in 3 weeks so pleased with myself lol
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7 courgettes, 3 baby beets (for thinning purposes mainly) 3 types of lettuce, a bunch of spring onions, 3 elephant garlic rounds (which i'm going to dry out and re-plant in november ish) 2 red onions (to check if manky as i have lost a few already) and 3 pods of peas (3 little plant that were nearly decimated by pigeons but i left them in just to see if they would produce) 1 green pepper and 4 cherry tomatoes.
The peas were a big suprise and lovely, my partner, daughter and myself had a pod each as there was not enough to use for a meal. :D
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Just picked my first sweetcorn for 2011 :)
Wasn't perfect pollination again this year, but it was lovely with some french bread for lunch :D
Also picked some French beans and red onions
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Spent al last night shelling Peas........Onwards. Serves me right for buying them by the pint!
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Two tomatoes, lots of radishes and spring onions - salad again tonight. :)
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A large arm full of flowers, onions and french beans. Very few toms as yet
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Apart from a test bulb last week, I pulled the first of the spring planted garlic yesterday as I noticed four at one edge had gone over. Two were not well developed and were mouldy. :( First year growing a spring planted variety, I guess I should pull them all now? I've already decided to increase next years autumn planted crop, so I might not grow a spring planted one again...
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I dug up some more earlies-rocket. Had a really good crop. Then my daughter picked some french beans while I got the 1st runner beans.Then some beetroot & gave the chap who gave me 2 huge lettuce some in return. A big bunch of marigolds that were taking over under my munty frame of beans,then the 1st of the red onions.My daughter went back home & turned a lot of it into a delicious veg soup,although she went & bought basil-there was plenty in the greenhouse! & asparagus & baby sweetcorn,very silly at this time of year.She needs to learn to eat what's on the plot
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Two cucumbers, yellow and green courgettes, runner beans and salad. And sweet peas.
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About 30 garlic, a very good harvest to say i just chucked them in and forgot about them :D :D
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Salad and a few peas, beans have flowered but no signs of anything more than that yet.
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Two cucumbers, four tomatoes, lots of radishes and spring onions - all eaten in a salad with fresh eggs from the chickens.
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Had a courgette fairy visit again and dug up a carrier bagfull of Ambo spuds..put the fork through the biggest again...it must be Murphy's law ;)
picked a few baby purple beans, a cucumber, some cherry toms and a bunch of sweetpeas.
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Picked some mint this morning and have just finished making some lovely mint sauce.
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Drum roll.........................my first tomato, a sungold yellow :D
beetroot
lettuce
elephant garlic
shallots
and... I don't know how I managed to miss these all week, but I found seven cucumbers on my plants. :blink: :lol: (A small variety, the name of which I can't remember)
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half a dozen tomatoes, cucumber died overnight (usual mysterious happening), sweetpeas
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a cue some toms and a handful of runners for my tea :)
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Well, i dug my first three parsnips today! they were huge, all of them about a foot long and about 4inches across at the top! :ohmy: I know they taste better with a frost on them, but i didn't want them to go woody.
Also harvested a handful of my autumn raspberries, soem franch beans, more new potatos, some more beetroot, some carrots and a few more spring onions, the lat of my ready lollo rosso and a Counter lettuce too (Kos type) and a cucumber.
Rerally pleased with this little haul, its at this time of year that you really start to see the fruits of your labour, Literarlly!!!
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It obviously your choice, but parsnips rarely go woody until the following spring and it really is worth waiting for frosts in my opinion, both for taste and texture.
There's plenty of other choice around now and parsnips are good to have when there's little else coming in.
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Bean time has now started for me!!!
Bagfull of french beans and half a bagfull of runners - meant to be stringless - we will see!!!
Some courgettes and white onions that went into a curry for tea.
As above was considering some parsnips tommorow as first time grower of these and thought they may go woody too - Might take a few to try and leave the rest until after the frosts
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Found my first bean today. Lets hope more follow. :)
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Runner Beans, French Climbing Beans and Dwarf French Beans ( Good job I like Beans)
Courgettes, Melon and Raspberries.
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This was a few days ago, it has taken me quite a few days to clear the table!
A good days work done.
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What are you doing with the grapes Junie? :)
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Wish they were grapes, they are small plums or damsons - not sure which. There were 12 kgs in total - so Plum jam, plum butter, plum cheese and plenty of stewed plums in the freezer..
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I have finally got a cucumber from the greenhouse, just as the indoor one died.......great timing :lol:
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Yesterday I managed to harvest yellow peppers, courgettes and tomatoes for the barbecued vegetable kebabs, various salad leaves, rocket, and radishes for the salad, nearly the last PJ spuds for the fried potatoes, and parsley and rosemary as garnishes/barbie flavourings.
We were all too full for the "pudding" so I fetched my friends back today to pick blueberries, raspberries (Autumn Bliss! :ohmy:) and some gigantic Albion strawberries to take home as a "goody bag."
It makes all the effort worthwhile when you can reap the rewards like this, but there is one glaring omission (RIP greenhouse cucumbers.) :(
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So much stuff to get through, I wish my freezer was bigger... today I harvested the last of the broad beans, some runner beans, purple french beans, a row of the potatoes where the tops had died off (an exploratory search revealed slug damage, so can't really be left in the ground too much longer), the first of this years leeks, some raspberries (didn't make it home) a few courgettes and some spring onions. I used up some of the damaged spuds, beans and the leek in a soup.
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broad beans chard kale lettuce and carrots :)
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French & runner beans, beetroot, tomatoes, flowers and courgettes (globe and traditional in yellow, green and motled).
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Two cucumbers, tomatoes from the outside toms, one tomato from the greenhouse (at last) spring onions, radishes, beetroots and two courgettes. Looking at the leeks - some are almost ready but will resist for a little while.
JayG - my cukes are starting to do really well - both the one that survived the original planting and the ones that I grew to replace the ones that died - I am following a new regime. No mollycoddling - they just get watered and fed in the way that everything else does and so far they are doing well. So from now I am NOT going through all that fuss about making sure not a DROP of water falls on the plant. What I am going to do is make sure that I do not start them off too early - the cukes that I sowed in late May are doing nearly as well as the one that survived the earlier planting.
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Wish they were grapes, they are small plums or damsons - not sure which.
:ohmy: Sorry! :lol:
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- my cukes are starting to do really well - both the one that survived the original planting and the ones that I grew to replace the ones that died -
Our CLs are producing cucs like mad and the Marketmore is getting to about the size now and was covered in flowers when I looked at it yesterday. :) Still, I'd be happier if the tomatoes and courgettes were doing better. ::)
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My first harvest!
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Radish, a few small chard leaves and some mixed leaves. Tasted very nice on my burger for tea last night.
Kosh
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JayG - my cukes are starting to do really well - both the one that survived the original planting and the ones that I grew to replace the ones that died - I am following a new regime. No mollycoddling - they just get watered and fed in the way that everything else does and so far they are doing well. So from now I am NOT going through all that fuss about making sure not a DROP of water falls on the plant. What I am going to do is make sure that I do not start them off too early - the cukes that I sowed in late May are doing nearly as well as the one that survived the earlier planting.
These were the very expensive F1 Passandra seeds which I did everything I could think of to keep alive, including planting them in two different locations in the G/H and different growing mediums to try and make sure at least one of them survived!
My neighbour lost one of her early cuke plants so sowed some more; they are all doing brilliantly and she has given me a couple of cukes already. I'll be stalking her and watching every move she makes next year! 8)
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Cabbages, courgettes, sugarsnaps, peas and a little caulie.
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Leaves, land cress, cucumber, a small yellow courgette, baby beets, little pepper and some chives to make tonight's salad. No toms, but a sungold is turning at last!
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Lots of cherry tomatoes today from the back of the garden...lots...sadly none made it to the house..we ate them all. Delicious....
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Two cucumbers, two courgettes, green beans and a few broad beans. Some of which went into a lovely stir fry for tea. :D
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Maincrop spuds.
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A couple of red onions, little gem lettuce getting on the tall side but one of the things I love about them is they don't go bitter. One head of minipop - very tasty but ready in dribs and drabs. If we're going to grow it again, there will need to be a lot more plants than the 5 or 6 we have this year. I broke that plant too :ohmy:, but I think/hope it has given its all now anyway. ::) Three crystal lemon cucs which are looking more like crystal new tennis balls now. :D
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Obligatory courgettes and one that escaped and turned into a barrge balloon :lol:
Runners, and some climbing flat pod yellow beans I bought the seeds of in Spain about 4/5 years ago for 10c ( :D), beetroot, a slightly tall Little Gem (like argyllie :lol: ) and some finger sized carrots from the module sown seed -- will do that again in a drought :D :D
Also collected my parsnip seed for next season from my carefully saved plant from last season :)
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Chard, runner beans and chives to go with risotto. Mmmmmm
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about 10 beetroot plants , now do i eat the leaves raw or steam them up , two courgette , :D i feel a soup coming on
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Tomatoes, courgette and bunching onions went into spag bol for tea ;)
Also picked a red cabbage, which I'll braise with apple tomorrow to go with some sausages, and Ambo potatoes :)
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A cabbage grown in a 10" pot (variety - Primo)
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Also picked a red cabbage, which I'll braise with apple tomorrow to go with some sausages, and Ambo potatoes :)
What time should we be round? ;)
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More lettuce and radishes. A new plot so not much else on there ready any time soon.
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just been away for a couple of days camping and cycling in New Forest - absolutely lovely, specially as we found a child-free campsite! However, after just 2 days without attention, the lottie has managed to produce barrage balloon courgettes/marrows :lol:, (description courtesy of Sunshineband!), javelin length runner beans, lettuces shaped like pyramids, and plums so juicy you could drink them!
I feel some chutney coming on :lol:
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Oooooohhhh the thought of plums straight off the tree ((dribble)) So long since I had any! :(
Had a nice pick of rhubarb to freeze today, really juicy and not a hint of green. Thanks to the rain, a nice taste of summer for the dark months.
Also courgettes (anyone else had any???) :D and beetroot. I feel boureki and freshly boiled beetroot coming on. Made some lemony garlicky hummus with some lovely home grown garlic hidden from himself.(He can use the bought stuff) Should taste that even with his cold.
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Ridiculous amounts of Desiree spuds with another 14x8 ft to go. Im actually starting to worry I planted too many as the prep of the damaged one for the freezer for the past two days has been a blooming nightmare and that hasn't even been half of the crop. Im running out of freezer space too.
1 beetroot, last of the peas, 20 onions, carrots, swede.
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Three gorgeous rows of onions lifted (as rain forecast for tomorrow and the tops had been going over for a while & I'd already eased them up)
Four bootiful big purple plums as I couldn't resist taking just a sample home even though they are not quite as soft and ripe as I'd like them. Gosh they're big uns! :happy:
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Two leeks for OH's lamb soup (his favourite - yuck). Lots of salad stuff for me - cannot believe my radishes this year. Big, sweet and peppery with hardly any marks on them. Have never had success this like before.
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Yet more lettuce and radishes... Keeping me in lunches at work...
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Courgettes. I also picked a chilli and ate that to see what they'll be like and it blew my head off :blink:
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Absolutely delicious tuscan kale and runner beans, and some fresh herbs to add to my home made hollandaise mmmmmmmmmmmmm :tongue2:
And for lunch a nice chunky cucumber and marmite sandwich. :D
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Peas, lettuce and radish for our fish salads tonight :)
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rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
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courgettes :lol:...dwarf french beans, some japanese red spring onions (sorry, senior moment cant remember the name but they are lovely), sungold tomatos, a whopper of a legend tomato, shallots. Dug out a few onions that look like they have the dreaded white rot.....praying that the rest that look ok will survive until i can dig them up and dry them when the sun comes out again :(.
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My first four tomatoes picked last evening. They are Totem, not necessarily the most tasty, but I live in hope. Oh, and because with with bush tomatoes it's so difficult to see what you're doing I picked a plump green 'un by mistake too!
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Last night I picked three courgettes with plenty more to come. :ohmy: :ohmy: Today - cukes, toms, lots more radish and spring onions. (I am going to pretend that I do not see that courgette lurking under the leaves.)
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Salad things: three crystal lemons, two little gem and the best sized spring planted garlic clove yet. Plus another red onion - I'm just pulling these (and the spring garlic) as I need them and my they're going fast! The spring planted garlic is extremely disappointing, I don't know whether to bother with it again or has the weather spoilt its growing too?
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My first ever cauliflower! :D
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Two iceberg lettuce and a bucket of Charlotte spuds for my Charlotte
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My first ever cauliflower! :D
Wahey! :D
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At last....I have tomatoes. I was starting to worry I was being left behind. Sungold and one Incas which fell off into my hand, a bit underripe.
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Still very cucumber heavy. I thought one plant wouldn't be enough!
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More rhubarb.
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And beans, salad leaves and land cress.
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2 more courgettes from the self sets (still none from the carefully grown ones!) & 6 globe artichokes that my daughter & I tried with some vinaigrette & some aioli
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Came back from 2 weeks holiday to find & harvest (under the weeds!) Courgettes, courgettes run to marrows, a massive carrier bag of french beans, runner beans, onions, spring onions, lettuce, huge tub of raspberries, cucumber, the first tomatoes, the last new potatoes, spinach, beetroot, carrots, cabbages. Plus my plum tree at home is so laden a huge branch broke off & I received a lovely big jar of plum jam made with them from a neighbour who was feeding our cats while we were away! Now to pickle, freeze, store & eat! :nowink:
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Errrmmm, just a few beans! :lol:
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My first ripe beefsteak tom and a couple of red peppers that are stuffed and roasting as we 'speak'.
Serving with just picked runner beans and some of the Ambo spuds dug up yesterday.
I love this time of year ;)
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At last....I have tomatoes. I was starting to worry I was being left behind. Sungold and one Incas which fell off into my hand, a bit underripe.
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Still very cucumber heavy. I thought one plant wouldn't be enough!
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More rhubarb.
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And beans, salad leaves and land cress.
Love the photos - a very artistic harvest. ;)
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Today we had tuscan kale, tomatoes, salad and land cress, pepper and more beans.
And OH found some wild plums.
Nearly forgot the blueberries!
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Picked my 20th courgette of the week, :lol: along with beetroot, radishes, lettuces, last of the peas, runner beans, chard, rasberries and a single strawberry!!! Plus a load of beautiful cornflowers for the house. :)
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I'm on my second lot of rhubarb - my first harvest was back in May, and by the time I'd finished, it was nearly all gone. When I come back from my jollies, a few weeks ago, it had all sprung back up - lovely. Also, I've just picked the last of the peas and in total, I've had over 10lb of them:)
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Sadly not been to the plot for awhile due to illness, most of my lettuce has bolted, radish in flower, 1 courgette that the squirrel got to first BUT I went up the other day and picked 3 large bowls of tomatoes Gardners delight and pearl. Gardners pearl are a free packet with a magazine and I made the mistake of putting them in the greenhouse bed :nowink:
Moneymaker not doing too bad outside.
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Spent four hours at the lottie on Saturday, we brought home lettuce, onions, shallots, cauliflower, broccoli, runner beans, french beans, carrots, beetroot, spring onions, courgettes, blackberries and two huge sacks of spuds, one of king edward and one of cara (these have been really good this year, nice size for baked)
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We came home from a week away to find our 6 cauliflower plants all have magnificent heads on them!!
Last week: cauliflower, yellow french beans, tomatoes (sungold are so sweet!), cucumber, beetroot, turnip, courgette, a parsnip, spinach & chard, cavelo nero, broad beans, an early squash, carrots, green chilli.
Yum yum ;)
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Went to the plot expecting just courgettes and to my surprise 4 Cherry Red and 12 Sungold tomatoes were ripe for the picking.
I hadn't been for around 4 days and found they had begun to ripen, plenty of others were beginning to show colour too so the harvesting begins :happy:
Also got 7 courgettes too ::) and a cup full of blueberrys.
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What ...go out in this weather? :ohmy: Horizontal rain and wind here, hope the beans stand up to it ok.
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I'm on my second lot of rhubarb - my first harvest was back in May, and by the time I'd finished, it was nearly all gone. When I come back from my jollies, a few weeks ago, it had all sprung back up - lovely. Also, I've just picked the last of the peas and in total, I've had over 10lb of them:)
Can you harvest Rhubabr now? Mine has come back to life after that long spell of no rain.....? As for Harvest, beans, beans and more beans!! Oh , and courgettes....and a parsnip!!
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Red onion, garlic, chilli and carrots to go into tonight's roasted veg with more bought veg and maybe a Crystal Lemon cucumber salad on the side not decided and baby (minipop) corn for tomorrow's stir fry. :D
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red onion, white onion, shallots and broad beans...the caulis have heads and the broccoli looks magnificent...was really tempted to pinch some broccoli but resisted...still unsure about the rest of my mystery brassica bed :)
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Few blueberries, cucumber, tomatoes and leaves, and a load of runner beans to take in to work tomorrow. (unfortunately not 5 of the same size!)
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Raspberry and Strawberry fruits all made into a nice cold Smoothie drink this evening 8)
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My first ever bumper harvest. Now i know why i wanted to take on an allotment.
10 maris Piper Plants dug, Red Onions, White Onions, Giant White Onions (which didn't seem to get as big as the normal white onions?) Beets, climbing french beans, the obligitory courgettes and handfull of spring onions. we also gave away a bag to the father in law with a few more of everything. Happy :D
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Fantastic fresh-from-the garden lunch yesterday:
half a dozen yellow tomatoes, the first cucmber of the year (and YUM! is it good or what?!) and an orange chilli finely chopped into some home-made hummus with home-made bread
8)
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I enjoyed my first crop of beetroot yesterday, very tasty eating home grown vegetables. Waiting now for my potatoes to finish flowering. ::).
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Fantastic fresh-from-the garden lunch yesterday:
half a dozen yellow tomatoes, the first cucmber of the year (and YUM! is it good or what?!) and an orange chilli finely chopped into some home-made hummus with home-made bread
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Sounds good lazza, I had a garden lunch yesterday too; I had a garlic and coriander naan bread left over so I sliced some of my big red ribbed toms over it, drizzled with olive oil, a generous sprinkle of salt and pepper and quick dash of balsamic vinigar - my it was soooo good!
Today I have harvested yellow dwarf beans, yellow & green courgette and spinach and ruby chard to add to my harvested red onions, sungold toms and bought mushrooms to make a stir fry pasta dinner tonight - yum!
Btw tim 1965, some say, like me, that you should pinch off the pot flowers when they appear to encourage that same energy into more crop production. Anyway thats what we do - glad your beets were tasty.
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Just some more beans today. There are a couple of cucumbers ready, but it ain't salad weather.
A work colleague kindly gave me a cos lettuce, some radish and a couple of pounds of tomatoes. Very kind, but he knows I grow what I can myself! :lol:
Maybe I should give him some beans in return............................... :D
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3 courgettes, another small cup of blueberrys my first cucumber of the season (and the only one by the looks of it as there are no more set) 5 broccoli (callabrese spears) and a selection of tomatoes sungold, cherry red and gardeners delight, the alicante havn't ripened neiher have the roma, there's plenty of good sized fruits but at present all green.
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Raspberries, blackberries, purple French beans, White Lady runners, Kestrel spuds, Marketmore cucumbers, green and yellow courgettes and a couple of these - Golden Nugget squash.
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1 potimorron squash, 1 courgette, 1 round yellow courgette, turnip, beetroot, 2 chinese cabbage, yellow/green/black climbing beans, runner beans and some basil. Oh, and 3 more cucumbers to join the 2 that I picked yesterday.... :lol:
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Yesterday I "picked up" lots of potatoes (mixed varieties) all very nicely (?) unearthed by the foxes and left to
go green dry in the sunshine.
I wish the varmints would work more methodically rather than fiddle around with all 5 rows at once. >:(
If they dug up a couple of plants at a time it would be more helpful. :blink:
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3 courgettes. :)
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3 courgettes
Yeah,
At last Argyllie and how will you be cooking them?
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I posted in the no courgette thread, but they went in the omelette which was already on the go. :) That's 4 courgettes in total. I might pick and photograph the ceremonial tomato today. ::) Well I don't want anything to chomp it before you all see it. :ohmy:
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Four mini-munch cucumbers (after a slow start they are really doing well) a couple of tomatoes, lots of spring onions, a couple of beets and two courgettes. Picked a leek yesterday for OH's favourite soup. Just need a bit more sunshine to encourage those toms to ripen.
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Even more salad leaves. However a gap in my succession sowing means the last lot of radishes are done and the next lot are not quite swelled enough yet...
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With all this talk of garlic, although I have been meaning to ::), I've pulled the remainder of the over-wintered garlic which I had been using straight from the ground as and when. These have grown to a good size now, so better late than never. I'll store these and finish up the spring planted ones, whose results haven't impressed me that much at all, although I just pulled two which had gone over and they were huge. :nowink:
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more taters, more 'gettes, more runners and more toms.
Now I have to make passata & pasta sauces whether I want to or not ::)
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A load of chard, more beans, big bunch of chives for sauce, one sungold and six peppers.
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Rainbow Swiss Chard, green pepper, yellow globe courgettes, Maskotka tomatoes and masses of Victoria Plums and Greengages picked by my daughter. Isnt August lovely!
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Yellow & green courgettes, little squash, spring onions, broad beans, sungold toms for roast veg for dinner (had to buy mushrooms) with herbed passata sauce on penne with salad on the side - delicious!
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Erm... beans!
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French Beans both climbing and dwarf. Runner Beans and tomatoes.
On the fruit side.......... Raspberries, Blackberries and Cape Gooseberries.
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potatoes
beetroot
dwarf french beans
shallots
blackberries
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More blackberries, tomatoes,blueberries,peppers chillis apache and jalapeno and our first cauliflower :D
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sweetcorn and an already ripe :blink: small Sunshine squash. It's already stuffed and in the oven :lol:
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We'll be eating the last of our Lady Cristl potatoes today (http://bestsmileys.com/sad/8.gif), as roasties.
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Cucumber, couple of sungold, a few blueberries, salad leaves, tarragon, parsley, chives and beans.
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Runner beans, french beans, courgette and 5 scrummy tomatoes! :D
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Two cucumbers, one sweet pepper, six tomatoes (sweet million - really live up to their name), and spring onions.
One of my cukes looks as if it is about to expire - was OK yesterday morning - by last night it was drooping and today looks like it is on its last legs. Oh the joys of growing cucumbers. The rest look OK and are doing well (so far). ::)
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Peas, sugarsnaps, potatoes (don't remember the variety), courgettes, cauliflower, hispi cabbage, red cabbage (now pickling) and 4 little tomatoes.
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Picked the first Polka autumn raspberries and was very impressed, large fruits and lovely flavour. None made it home. :)
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Green pepper (added to tonight's casserole), three cucumbers - and lots more to come, Think I will have to pickle some.
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Two cucumbers, couple of tomatoes, green peppers, runner beans, chard, baby leeks.
Made a lovely pasta sauce (except cu) with the addition of garlic and a dollop of philly...yum.
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2 hispi cabbage
2 cucumbers
6 red spring onions
6 white lisbon spring onions
1 webb lettuce
4 boltardy beetroot
1 lb Dwarf beans
2lb Gardners delight tomatoes
1 misshaped carrot :mad:
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Here's a photo of the Picasso potatoes I dug today - 15lbs 1/4oz from 3 roots.
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Here's the onions I took to the local show. The one that didn't win the largest onion weighed 3lbs .25 or so the ticket said. The other 3 won 2nd prize so I was very pleased.
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First (ever) sprouting brocolli. :) Some more rainbow chard and a red onion for the dinner too.
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It rained so hard and for so long I didn't go out --- over 2 ins here
So I guess my harvest was rainwater in the garden buckets :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Nearly the last of my first early spuds (and that's it as I don't have room for later varieties.)
These are Lady Christl; only 3 plants this year which were grown from "volunteers" left over from last year as I couldn't find any LC seeds this year.
Quite a good yield, although/because they're not what I'd call salad potato size!
(Oh yes, and my first spud with a slug snoozing inside it with a couple of spotted snake millipedes keeping it company, which is not bad really to say the foliage died back about 6 weeks ago and they have been left in situ; one of the few advantages of having such sandy soil I suppose!) :)
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my first ripe tomatoe of the year :D :D :D with more to come soon
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more taters, more runner beans, 3 more courgettes ::) and a big bowlfull of plum tomatoes and a red pointy spanish pepper :)
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Got all the onions,shallots up. Also dug up more Picasso potatoes - 4st 4lbs. Still got 6 more roots to go. :D
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Six cucumbers, six courgettes, six beetroot, 4 sweet million tomatoes + two leeks. :) :)
My cukes are going crazy - even the one that I thought was about to expire has recovered and is fruiting well. Should have at least six to pick tomorrow.
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A bolthardy betroot and good handful of french beans.
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Beetroot and some rosemary for my Lancashire Hotpot made with my own Hebridean lamb :)
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One squash that fell off the plant, two punnets of raspberries which are going into some experimental spiced bramble jam, some runner beans, a bunch of shallots, a couple of courgettes. Also picked about 3 kilos of blackberries (12 punnets) from a nearby hedgerow, made some straight up blackberry jam, prepared my bramble jam and blanched and froze the last of the french beans.
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The first of our Ambo potatoes. :) They look good, we'll see if the make good roasties later!
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runner beans, courgette, parsnip thinnings, carrots, cabbage, spring onions, tomatoes, last strawberries, raspberries, rubarb, elderberries, blackberries, apples, pears, plums and damsons.
Lots of jams, passata and chutney made today.
This evening im making up a batch of beer and a WOW(wurzles orange wine).
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The first of our Ambo potatoes. :) They look good, we'll see if the make good roasties later!
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:)
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well done with that spud argyllie :)
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Dug over the potato bed and sowed a green manure of mustard. Dug over the onion bed and sowed forage rye. Put in the last of the leek plants. Did a bit of sporadic weeding and watering.
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Loads of french beans and a lovely plump beetroot. Both were yummy!
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well done with that spud argyllie :)
Thanks. :) That was the biggest of the ones dug yersterday, although there were another few nearly that size. :)
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And did it make great roasties? Looks really impressive. :)
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Actually, not the best roasties ever but pretty good..... Perhaps their newness out of the ground, I don't know. :unsure: Still we'll try them boiled, mashed, baked and as chips and wedges too. :)
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Some dwarf french beans, plenty of plums (oodles left for the wasps too), spring onions, tomatoes (totem - not very tasty, mental note to try something different next year), a cabbage, and finally some mixed salad leaves.
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Four cucumbers (made cucumber pickles with them) and a handful of small tomatoes. Did not even look at the courgettes - will pick them later. Lots of sweet peppers ready to pick and some chillis ripening - soon be time to make chilli pickles.
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The rest of the spring planted garlic - some good sized ones at last. :) A couple more courgettes I think that's 5 now! :lol:
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Handful of runners - White lady this year based on recommendations here, (not impressed with yield or flavour so far). 1 solitary beetroot and a few white currant that the birds had missed.
Might get my first and probably only cuke tomorrow - fingers crossed.
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You reminded me - another couple of Crystal Lemon cucs too. They've done well this year. The Marketmore has a couple of large gherkin sized fruits on it now, which should be reasdy in the next few days. It'll have to get a move on if its going to give us much of a crop before its too cold again. ::)
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the weather here hasn't suited White Lady this year, Lardman :(
Plot next to mine has superb crop of St George, so I'm growing those next year..they will save me some seeds ;)
Courgette fairy has struck again! and I picked a spaghetti squash and a red cabbage :)
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runner beans, purple beans, 2 courgettes (again) and a small tub of raspberries.
I picked a tub of blackberries on the walk back and scrumped some crabapples dangling over from the railway line ;)
Now if the Co-op had had some sugar I would be jam making...but surprise surprise they are out of stock AGAIN >:(
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Harvested my Ambo today this is the biggest ,thanks DD for telling me about them ,great bakers,
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From left to right: Inca F1, Marmande, Red Alert, and Sweet Million.
(Best tasting? Sweet Million, by a mile; the other's aren't bad but I always intended most of them to finish up as pasta sauce!)
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Some people just have too much time on their hands ::) :nowink:
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:lol: :lol:
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From left to right: Inca F1, Marmande, Red Alert, and Sweet Million.
(Best tasting? Sweet Million, by a mile; the other's aren't bad but I always intended most of them to finish up as pasta sauce!)
Love it!!!! = I could probably write every word in the dictionary with my courgettes.............................................
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I havn't been to the lottie for around 6 days due to other comitments but finaly managed to get there last night.
I harvested 6 florrets of Callabrese, 9 Courgettes some rather large so i gave them to the neighbours ;) , 4lb of toms and the very last of the blueberrys.
I planted 4 Sungold F1 plants as i'd heard they were very nice (and they are), that was a little overkill i think as they are out cropping all the others by 5 to 1.
The Allicante are also cropping now as are the Gardenners Delight and the Cherry Red.
The Roma's are still well away from ripening but are making good size.
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My first proper cuke (Carmen), just under 12" long.
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O well done, for at least getting one :D
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Yesterday I picked three indoor and two outdoor cucumbers, one sweet pepper, and half a dozen sweet million tomatoes and half a dozen beetroot.
Today - one cuke, spring onions, a couple of tomatoes and one leek for OH's soup.
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O well done, for at least getting one :D
Its a very expensive cucumber ;) I've learnt bucket loads about looking after them for next season, so its been been a total loss.
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Its a very expensive cucumber ;) I've learnt bucket loads about looking after them for next season, so its been been a total loss.
I hope you'll share all the knowledge with us (I couldn't even keep mine alive long enough to not fruit!) :nowink:
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Harvested a few more White Lady runner beans which are threatening to produce a huge glut very shortly (weather permitting), more raspberries (lots more to come), a few strawberries (getting a bit smaller now but still coming), and thought about having a peek at the "oldest" sweetcorn cob (the batch sown and planted a fortnight after the first haven't quite caught the others up but have managed to grow to their "proper" height; an interesting experiment which I think will have been a success if we don't run out of summer first!) :unsure:
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Harvested my Ambo today this is the biggest ,thanks DD for telling me about them ,great bakers,
I'm relieved they came out OK - always a worry when you recommend something!
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One row of my onions from sets, (Centurion), plus a beer can I - errrrr - found. Two more to come. They are mostly about 4 1/2" diameter.
Daughter's comment was that they were huge. I had to explain that these were the small ones and the "Kelsae" plants are much bigger and still growing.
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Dwarf beans, 2 almost red tomatoes, 3 strawberries and another tub of blackberries...at this rate I'm never going to be self sufficient but everything is yummy!
Also picked a tub of hazelnuts (cobnuts?).... there were none on the ground yesterday but loads in the tree, today there were loads of empty raided husks on the ground and far fewer on the tree so I thought I'd better grab some before Squirrel-nutkin went back for seconds :D
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Two more to come. They are mostly about 4 1/2" diameter.
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Wow, those are really big cans of beer then DD! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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The first hanging basket tomato of the season, per:
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=82855.msg924772#msg924772
::) Not sure whether that planter contains Gartenperle or 100s & 1000s. :wub:
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Well done that tomato ;)
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Well done that tomato ;)
:nowink: :lol:
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::) Not sure whether that planter contains Gartenperle or 100s & 1000s. :wub:
Looks a little too orange for gartenperle so id guess at 100s/1000s. I tried them last year in a pot and wasn't overly impressed.
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That's a useful tip Lardman. We grew Gartenperle last year and were very happy with them, but this is the first go at 100s & 1000s. Whatever it is, its the only ripening fruit so far where most of the plants are still only festooned with flowers....
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Tuscan Kale, toms, lemon wotsit cucumber, salad leaves, a couple of small beetroot, beans (they've slowed again with the cool weather) a pepper and herbs.
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Another Crystal Lemon cucumber and the first Red Drumhead cabbage which will be part of the roast dinner today. :D
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7lb of raspberries, some courgettes, cucumbers, a carrier bag full of runner beans and half of flat yellow helda beans, two turks turban squashes, 3 lb of congo black potatoes (from one volunteer ;) ) a massive bunch of sweetpeas and some pink cactus dahlias, a basket of yellow golden sunrise tomatoes, a large bag of green tomatoes....
.... and two apples from our james Grieves tree :D
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...some courgettes...
... or marrows? :D
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courgettes (ditched 2 marrows !), carrots, some left behind potatoes, spring onions (last ones) lettuce, runner beans, raspberries (lots left to pick) cabbage :)
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Three cukes, half a dozen sweet million tomatoes (lovely and sweet) and a green pepper, and the courgette fairy has been again - four courgettes.
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Anya potatoes and carrots today yum yum
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1 carrier bag of french beans 4 days since last picked about 20 plants
half bag of runner beans they seem to be slowing up now
6 spring onions
6 tomatoes moneymaker and they are outside
1swede
some sprouting broc
a few carrots
2 cabbages 1 has holes in catapillars ugh
2 butternut squash
1 spagetti squash
12 cobs sweetcorn
4lb raspberries
1 parsnip
1 root of picasso spuds good size and scab free (all our 1st and 2nd earlies have scab)
1 pumpkin that i cut by accident trying to cut back side shoots and dying leaves
1 courgette
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Today I picked half a carrier bag of purple podded beans, a small Sweet Dumpling squash, some baby kale leaves and a few more raspberries...............................................................and
another courgette ::)
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A hand full of runners enough for dinner :D , 1 bolthardy beetroot and a 4 inch courgette (complete with rotten end). I admit I lost my temper a pulled the plant out. :wub: The 2 Paris island lettuce that had run to seed ended up as chicken food.
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3 calbrese heads
the rest of the white onions that had dried
bag of french beans
bag of runner beans
10 parsnips
bowl full of raspberries
- someone gave me a bunch of carrots to which was a nice bonus after mine all got carrot fly
Really need to go blackberry picking to make a crumble
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Back from holiday last night, and today was a quick run round to pick everything that had come good over the last 2 weeks :)
So, a couple of dozen yellow cherry tomatoes, two cucumber, a bag full of rocket and a handful of salad leaves, the last of my radishes, and a couple of orange chillis.
(Cucumbers and radishes turned out to be a little bitter, but the toms and salad leaves were fab!)
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10 inches long, 7 inch girth.......... The first Marketmore of the season on the first of September! ::) There's another one nearly as big waiting in the wings....
Couple of courgettes to go in the dinner, apart from those. :)
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Yesterday I picked - 12 sweet million tomatoes from the greenhouse (all now eaten), two greenhouse cucumbers (they finally seem to be slowing down) and one outdoor cuke, two large but not quite marrow size courgettes (which I gave away) and one small courgette, a couple of sweet green peppers and lots of spring onions.
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After being on holiday for the last 10 days here goes
Loads of french beans
Carrots
Calabrese
Huge red spring onions
Green pepper
Beetroot
Baby turnips
Tomatoes and more tomatoes
10lb of Desire spuds from 1 polybag :)
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Didn't harvest today but got 3 x galia melons yesterday with a yellow ball courgetter, stripy green courgette and 2 corn on the cobs from the tunnel! Well chuffed.... :D
Mandy
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Yesterday - one big (over 1lb) courgette with lots more small ones to come. Made soup with it for last nights dinner.
Today - had a quick look in the green house this morning - about a dozen sweet million toms ready to pick along with a couple of cukes. Lots of beetroot ready so going to pick some and pickle it today (weather too bad to do anything else).
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Just found this thread.... great to see what is being picked...
In the last few days I've picked or dug..
4 courgettes - 2 were like marrow size
big pile of asparagus pea
20 kg potatoes from the garden share - Maris Piper and King ed..
4 kg potatoes Sante from 2 of my roof tubs
pot full of runner beans
:D :D
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One huge marrow (actually a well hidden courgette) plus four small ones, Cherry Toms, Golden Sunrise (My favourite) and Roma toms, a couple of green peppers, another carrier bag of French climbing and dwarf beans, a few runner beans, a large handfull of Autumn raspberries. One cabbage + attendant cloud of white fly, one Turks Turban squash to try. I also have two quite big spagetti squash that I cannot wait to try.
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Last of my rooftop spuds 5kg... could have left them a while longer to fill out a bit.. this is my first try at spuds :)
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In my naivety i planted 6 courgette plants,am now feeding family and neighbours
On saturday lifted about 75kg of potatoes,3 cabbage ,6 callabrese florrets,3 beetroot,4 carrots,2 bags of spinach,1kg runner beans 1/2 kg french beans,bowl of rasps,3 peppers ,a few dozen cherry toms,2 spring onions :) and a handful of chillis(VERY HOT)
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3 Crystal Lemons, a handful of dwarf french beans and two heads of minipop. I'll see if there are a few carrots too for dinner.
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3 carrots
A good handful of French beans
A couple or three tomatoes
3 large spring onions
2 turnips
A few kale leaves
a good bunch of spinach beet leaves.
Beef casserole on the menu for tonight!
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12 sweet million tomatoes, enough ripe hot chillies to make a jar of OH's favourite pickled peppers (with more to come) and four perfect sweetcorn cobs which OH and I devoured for lunch. Yumm.
Enough dwarf french beans for with our dinner - these were just thrown into a small space rather than leave a bare patch so well pleased. Plenty more to come.
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At first glance, I read that as 12 million sweet tomatoes! :lol: Wishful thinking on my part. ::) I have another 3 + lurker courgettes to pick later to make up part of dinner. :)
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A cabbage, bowl of rasps, 2courgettes(neverending),bag runner beans, 1/2bag french beans,1beetroot, 3 carrots, 3spring onions, bag of apples, about 25cherry toms, 2 aubergines, small bag of chillies, 4 sweet peppersand 8 calabrese florrets
Carl
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At first glance, I read that as 12 million sweet tomatoes! :lol: Wishful thinking on my part. ::) I have another 3 + lurker courgettes to pick later to make up part of dinner. :)
:ohmy: :ohmy: They certainly are prolific but not that good. :lol: :lol: Some of the trussses are three feet long and they have a lovely flavour. Looks like we will have toms into October/November. Will certainly grow then again. :)
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12 savoy cabbs now processed and safely tucked away in the bottom of the deep freeze.
14 F1 Shirley toms, 4 Q's, 4 green sweet peppers and 6 of the tinyest sungold toms I have seen.
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Eight mini munch cucumbers from the greenhouse (think we will not get many more that plants are now looking tatty but have done really well all summer), six small cukes from the mini munch that I planted outdoors because there was no room in GH (plants now pulled out), 10 sweet million toms from the greenhouse and one sweet pepper.
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First proper sweetcorn cob yesterday ( :ohmy:) which was delish. It was small though, but not actually poorly pollinated - they have really struggled this year (late planting due to frost, poor June weather, and not a lot of heat, sun and timely rain thereafter; they can cope with a double but not a triple whammy!)
Steady supply of toms outdoors and indoors, with Sweet Million topping the taste test.
Interesting smell of ripe melon in the greenhouse; the six on one plant are in stepped sizes like Russian dolls, although hopefully not hollow! Will probably find out later today.
So many Autumn Bliss raspberries I had to make jam yesterday!
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First proper sweetcorn cob yesterday ( :ohmy:) which was delish. It was small though, but not actually poorly pollinated - they have really struggled this year (late planting due to frost, poor June weather, and not a lot of heat, sun and timely rain thereafter; they can cope with a double but not a triple whammy!)
Steady supply of toms outdoors and indoors, with Sweet Million topping the taste test.
Interesting smell of ripe melon in the greenhouse; the six on one plant are in stepped sizes like Russian dolls, although hopefully not hollow! Will probably find out later today.
So many Autumn Bliss raspberries I had to make jam yesterday!
Have to agree about the sweet million - they have such a sweet but tangy flavour - I just eat them like sweets.
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A production line in the kitchen today......toms going in boiling water to remove skins.
Sliced courgettes being fried in oil with a little garlic, onions being fried in another pan,
basil chopped on a board..it's all go :ohmy:
Some will end up together as sauces for bottling, some to be frozen separately in portions...
but it all smells mmmmmmmm
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Amongst the usual things - a 4 1/2lb "Kalibos" cabbage.
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Not posted on this thread for a while, but for tea were having some of the desiree spuds, carrots, onions, and runner beans with a pie :tongue2:
ANd weve been having a glut of salad crops, autumn lettuce realy is coming into its own, and more tomatoes than i know what to do with, steady supply of courgettes and beans (which im a bit disapointed with realy, quite a poor crops).
The beetroot was harvest and isnt too impressive, but for a first attempt, is ok i supose.
Sweetcorn is shaping up nicely, possibly looking at a harvest next week :)
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picked my first sweetcorn on there half grown cobs - still very juicy though - got well squirted when I was freezing it and its very sweet. Got a couple of cabbages, runner beans, loads of raspberries, got 5 Hooligan pumpkins, some courgettes (still!) and some of the biggest carrots that I have ever grown. Which is not bad considering I didn't think I was going to have any at the beginning of the season :D
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Too more runners and french beans - one courgette from 10 plants - think they are just about done with and full of mildew.
Some spring onions which will go in a stir fry with the beans and some cabbage.
Some more rasberries.
I will be taking my first sprouts tommorow - thats if i can get the whitfly off them.....................................................
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More beans,courgettes and desiree pots.
First time we've grown on allotment and have deffinatly had money's worth,
looking forward to next year :D
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Massive amount of runner beans,spring onions,chillies, peppers,2courgettes, some peas,bowl of rasps,about 40cherry toms
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Yesterday - two more sweetcorn cobs for me and one for the chickens, about a dozen sweet million toms.
To-day - french beans and courgette for dinner, more tomatoes and what looks like the last of the cukes.
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Blighted toms for burning :(
On the positive side though harvested two pumpkins, last of the sweetcorn, greenhouse toms, loads of chillies, crookneck courgettes, and butternut squash (one was 8 1/2 lbs!!)
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The net result of a couple of hours picking and pulling:
3.1 kgs runner beans.
1.4 kgs raspberries.
Half a bucket beetroot.
Few apples.
Few carrots.
Last of the onions.
10 sweetcorn cobs at long last.
Little gem lettuce and spring onions.
Yellow tomatoes.
Yet more purple sprouting and green calabrese.
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Pulled up the last courgette and found a marrow ::) and 3 littlies ;)
Last handful of edible runner beans, the rest are big enough to save for seed :)
Black Cherry toms and salad leaves
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The last of the cucumbers (two), a dozen sweet million tomatoes, six beetroot which were hiding in a weedy patch, a small marrow (hiding in the same weedy area) and a couple of small sweetcorn which I fed to the chickens, kept the big ones for OH and me. :)
Nearly forgot - enough chilli peppers to make a jar of pickles for OH.
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A few ripe tomatoes, a couple of courgettes, some dwarf green beans, some chard. :)
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Did you say ripe?
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Yep. :) A couple of them are pea-sized, but I only picked ripe ones. :D The Inca look as though they will give a huge crop, but they are only thinking of turning red at the moment. They'll come off the plants if necessary and ripen on the windowsill.
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Some carrots, most of which wouldn`t pass the shape test at Tesco. Heaviest weighs 292 grams.
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Apples, apples, apples, apples, apples, apples, apples...
I'm also still picking cucumbers, tomatoes (gardener's delight and costoluto fiorentino), runner beans (but they're starting to get a little tough now), french beans, carrots and have even raided a few of the winter veg - the leeks and curly kale were just so tempting!
I'm planning on a chutney day tomorrow.
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Lots of tomatoes and two leeks
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Some sprouting broccoli. Its rallying now that some of the red cabbages have been removed and its getting more space and light.
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Four yummy corncobs - just about finished now.
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4 courgettes - turned into marrow size...
10 small onions - leftovers found whilst digging
1/4 tesco bag Asparagus Pea
My gardens are now clear - so off to start on the new allotment from 1st October... :D :D
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1/2 a punnet of raspberries & 4 huge sweetcorn cobs. Wondered what on earth I'm going to do with all the others from the 2nd lot on the 2nd plot.
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2 primo caggage, with slug damage but beatifull and white when trimmed down.
Runner Beans and French beans all for Sunday dinner then rain stopped play so came home wet :(
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Just come back off holiday wondered what state veg would be in ,but no worries
2 carrier bags of runner beans
6carrots
3 beetroot
3cabbage
2 carrier bags of spinach
2 salsify plants
2scorzonera plants
12 rasps
4 radishes
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Sweetcorn......I love it!
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looks a great haul.... I can taste and feel the hot butter dripping down my cheeks!!
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Courtesy of the fine weather 4lb 3 1/2 oz (1.91kg)-excluding weight of bowl. :D
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My first day on the new plot and I picked the Raspberries and some Damsons (from next door) and Blackberries from the fences... made my first jam last night.. hope it sets!!
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The last minipop cob, carrots (these did well in pots this year), a few sprouts of broccoli, AND...... *drum roll* ......... the first (and last of the year) french beans! :D At least the bean frame didn't go to waste completely. ::)
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At least you did get some eventually argyllie :D
Brought home our three big orange pumpkins, a small yellow round courgette, 2 jerusalem artichokes, some apples, radishes, salad leaves, beetroot and ONE runner bean that was nice and juicy :lol:
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Beetroot, carrots, leeks, beans, courgettes, gladioli and chrysanthemums ;)
(And suntan!)
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HI
Celery,celeric,Sweetcorn,Strawberries,Lettuce,Spring onions,Runner Beans,Cucumber,French beans and Apples. I also watered the allotment from top to bottom never though I would be watering in October.
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Yesterday's harvest. Shame the potatoes had to come up but they were bitten by blight :(
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Kosh - that looks lovely ;)
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7lb of assorted Tomatoes, freezer is stuffed and I am well chuffed.
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About1/2 carrier bag runner beans, 4 carrots,3 spring onions,cherry toms, some leaf beat,10 polka rasps
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Still picking up to twenty per day sweet million tomatoes from the greenhouse plants. These are really tasty and I will certainly grow them next year.
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Still picking up to twenty per day sweet million tomatoes from the greenhouse plants. These are really tasty and I will certainly grow them next year.
I grew sweet million. Quite impressed. Sungold had the better flavour though IMHO. ;)
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Still picking up to twenty per day sweet million tomatoes from the greenhouse plants. These are really tasty and I will certainly grow them next year.
I grew sweet million. Quite impressed. Sungold had the better flavour though IMHO. ;)
Have not tried Sungold yet - trouble is there are just too many to try.
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I grew Sungold this year and got a great crop, taste fab too but found the skins a little thick/tough in comparrison to the likes of Gareners Delight and Sweet Cherry.
I will grow only one next year as i feel the taste difference between the other varieties and Sungold doesn't make enough of a difference as it's offset by the texture.
I've harvested 5lb's of toms Alicante/Sungold/gardeners Delight/Sweet Cherry and Roma last night and there's till loads on the plants, they're loking as if blight might be a problem now though.
Also harvested 2 Iceberg lettuce and a bucket of salad carrots (small Early Nantes)
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We found this skins (of Sungold) a bit tough too but as most of my cherry tomatoes were the same I put it down to the
heat weather.
The taste was so different though and they seem to last longer on the vine than other varities.
(I grew: sungold, sweet million, bambino and gradeners delight)
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Still got 5 cucumbers on the surviving Marketmore plant, but the plant is going downhill fast now so these will be picked imminently.
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Still got 5 cucumbers on the surviving Marketmore plant, but the plant is going downhill fast now so these will be picked imminently.
That's done very well considering your summer is long gone up there.
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Still got 5 cucumbers on the surviving Marketmore plant, but the plant is going downhill fast now so these will be picked imminently.
That's done very well considering your summer is long gone up there.
We have to grow all the cucs indoors (unheated) here, but I still think it has done very well as this particular plant was very late in growing and fruiting.
:)
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Well you've done alot better than me argyllie.
I got 2 cucumbers off 2 plants (one plant died as soon as it was planted so 1 plant really)
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Off to the plot for more beetroot and carrots. :)
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Well you've done alot better than me argyllie.
I got 2 cucumbers off 2 plants (one plant died as soon as it was planted so 1 plant really)
The cucs were quite good this year - both varieties. Still didn't go to make up the shortfall, caused by the bizarre weather, in so many of the other crops though.
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10 green peppers from two plants which looked like they were dying - still two more plants to go but they look healthy. Lots of sweet million tomatoes.
I have one courgette plant left - should be able to pick a couple of courgettes in a couple of days + lots of new flowers on plant.
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I have one courgette plant left - should be able to pick a couple of courgettes in a couple of days + lots of new flowers on plant.
I have one that looks extremely healthy too. I'm surprised. It has several firm fruits on it despite it being mid October.
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I have one courgette plant left - should be able to pick a couple of courgettes in a couple of days + lots of new flowers on plant.
I have one that looks extremely healthy too. I'm surprised. It has several firm fruits on it despite it being mid October.
Must be the mild weather Paul - first frost and they will go over. Enjoy them while you can.
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I still have courgette plants going strong too. Came home with three yellow ones and two green ones yesterday evening.
Still have cucmbers in the minitunnel and one is almost big enough now, so have that to look forward to.
Brought home some beetroot for roasting too
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Hi
I filled a carrier bag with runner beans,picked 3 spring onions,a cabbage a carrier bag full of spinach about 40 chillis 3 sweet peppers some autumn fruiting rasps.
i've got some courgettes too, but not sure if they will be ready before frosts.
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About a pound of tomatoes from the greenhouse at home-- all small ones like sungold and gardeners' delight plus some teent tiny ones (think they were 100s and 1000s)
Gorgeous and sweet :D
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A huge bag of carrots, beetroot and leeks.
(Six sacks of spuds already stored for the winter)
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The one strawberry that has grown and ripened from the Freecycle plants I got in July, a few broad beans and chillies from the poly tunnel.
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Yesterday I picked enough chilli peppers to make two jars of pickles and about 20 sweet million tomatoes. To-day - a couple of courgettes - plant still going strong.
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Hi all,
I cleared the greenhouse and the plot on Sunday afternoon.
When i dared look inside the greenhouse the first pic is what geeted me :ohmy:
80% of the toms had fallen off the plants or were split with mould in the split so ruined :nowink:
I harvested what i could and cleared the plants ready for winter salads (etc)
I took home what i had harvested 2nd pic, (tomatoes Alicante, sungold, gardeners delight and sweet cherry, then green peppers califonian wonder, chilli cayenne and jalapeno and 1 small cucumber, from the plot, 4 butternuts, thats it) the sprouts seem to have blown but the PSB seems to be ok for later on in the year.
The last pic is of the over ripe toms with olive oil, salt and pepper waiting to be roasted.
Andy
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I cleared the greenhouse and the plot on Sunday afternoon.
Me too... but not quite as spectacularly!
So, all tomatoes picked, about 50% ripened, 50% on the window-sill with a banana (fingers crossed). My last cucumber... only a tiddler, but nice and sweet. The last of the peppers - also not ripened, but nice and large, and also quite sweet. Only the chillis left, to see if I can get the last few green ones to turn orange.
And then, planted a dozen winter lettuce seedlings into the space that was vacated.
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Picked last of chillis,sweet peppers and cherry toms from greenhouse.
From the raised beds,2 beetroot, 4 carrots,1 salsify, 1 scorzonera,1/2carrier bag of runner beans,1swede,some leaf beat,some calabrese side shoots and 2 fallgold autumn fruiting rasps.
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Some lovely baby leeks, a handful of chard and parsley to go in a smoked haddock chowdery type thing. Smells lovely.mmmmm
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I found a potato when I was digging my first bed..it was a very nice one. Does that count?
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I found a potato when I was digging my first bed..it was a very nice one. Does that count?
Certainly does!!
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First sprouts have been munched by some nocturnal visitors but salvaged some today - very tasty. Yesterday went to lift the beetroot .... Same visitors left the tops and the bottoms ...... But ran off with the middle!! I see they might be heading for the parsnips now .... Ug. Currently under siege from mice, voles, pheasants ........
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First sprouts have been munched by some nocturnal visitors but salvaged some today - very tasty. Yesterday went to lift the beetroot .... Same visitors left the tops and the bottoms ...... But ran off with the middle!! I see they might be heading for the parsnips now .... Ug. Currently under siege from mice, voles, pheasants ........
I'd get my own back and eat the pheasants!! ;)
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I'd get my own back and eat the pheasants!! ;)
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Ha ha ... Pheasants are fairly daft birds but at least they can't dig tunnels or squeeze under netting! Shooting season here starts next Saturday ... Unfortunately ... Rodents on the other hand .... >:(
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I'd get my own back and eat the pheasants!! ;)
Ha ha ... Pheasants are fairly daft birds but at least they can't dig tunnels or squeeze under netting! Shooting season here starts next Saturday ... Unfortunately ... Rodents on the other hand .... >:(
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That's sad for the birds. I'd sooner look at them than kill or eat them.
Rodents. :tongue2:
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Yesterday`s harvest with next year in mind. Kept the grandchildren occupied for an hour or so this morning.
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The climbing borlotti and climbing french bean seed were gleaned from the communal compost heap, not my own growing.
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A great looking lot of saved seed.
I hope the grandchildren were paid? :lol:
There's a business opportunity for them. ;)
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Picked about 20 sweet million tomatoes most of which were eaten with dinner last night. There are still quite a few on the vines and they are ripening so I am just leaving them for now.
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4 nice little courgettes, a big double handful of french beans (planted early august as an experiment), same amount of broccoli sprouts (green magic - been producing since july!) spinach, a big swede, curly kale, black kale, 2 mooli, 9 raspberries, leeks, carrots, 4 parsnips - very small :( maybe too early?
Phew! Lots of work washing, cooking and/or storing them now :blink:
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Some mixed salad (cut and come again leaves, a cos, some mizuna and some giant red mustard), a couple of peppers, a few chillies and a few French beans.
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10 beetroot and a tincy wincy cabbage from the new plot that the previous evictee had tried to grow..
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this morning I found a few Black Cherry toms just ripened, on the one plant I left in the corner of the greenhouse :D
I don't know if any of the other green ones will turn, there are still plenty on it ;)
There's plenty of salad for lunch as well!
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About 20 sweet million tomatoes - just about finished now - will be stripping the plants over the next few days.
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Last of the potatoes, pulled some carrots out of a couple of tubs (note to self....thin out carrots), 4 raspberries and brought my family of pumpkins home for carving later.
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2 beetroot,6 carrots,1 parsnip,2 cabbages,4 spring onions,a carrier bag of leaf beat,1 scorzonera,and 4autumn rasps.
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Yesterday's haul from the plot :
A few more tatties,
Leeks
Couple of Savoys
Winter Cabbage
Beetroot
Austrian Cooking Radish
Mmmmmm.... Winter stews :)
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got a lovely red cabbage(1st attempt) and some green cabbage leaves yesterday for dinner mmm everything on my plate was homegrown apart from the meat ;)
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Looks like it's time to get a heard of cattle in the back garden Dexy :D
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Yesterday:
Beetroot
Celery
Celeriac
Half a dozen broad bean pods (managed about 12 beans in total!)
Leek
Parsnip (heavily forked)
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Carrots, calabrese, purple sprouting and a handfull of runner beans!
The climbing purple french beans have taken on a new lease of life, are flowering again and I picked a few small ones of these too.
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90 Scarlet Bedder wallflower plants. :)
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The last of the spuds.
A few leeks.
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Another couple of Black Cherry toms and more salad to go with the moussaka tonight.
Some leeks to make soup, 2 swedes and a parsnip ;)
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A quick trip to the plot yielded some nice calabrese, at least enough for a small helping with dinner tonight.
Also picked a few leaves of landcress.
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4 beetroot, 6 carrots, 2 salsify, 2 scozonera, 1 parsnip,4 spring onions,1 leek,2 cabbages,carrier bag of leaf beat
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1 small oakleaf lettuce and half a pound of turnips
All from the raised bed at home.
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Picked the last of the sweet million tomatoes (a small bowlful), enough chilies to make two jars of pickles and the last lonely courgette - so just some beetroot and lots of leeks left.
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Whilst digging up the dogwood hedge I had to dig up the raspberries that were intermingled with it.. got a small bowl-full so will have them with icecream tonight..
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Whilst digging up the dogwood hedge I had to dig up the raspberries that were intermingled with it.. got a small bowl-full so will have them with icecream tonight..
Taste buds are going at thought, Gavin
Mmmmmmm..........
Raspberries and ice cream
:D
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Beetroot, Kale, Parsnip, Leeks and still more tomatoes.
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A swede, a leek, a couple of parsnips and some brussel sprouts.
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Had cleared away most of the plants in my lean-to a few weeks ago, but had not had time to clear one side, and so managed to get some time to do it on Sunday. And a nice surprise - found two tomatoes and 3 chillis on the (almost) dead plants!
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Today`s harvest for tomorrow`s lunch.
(http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa363/trevor3457/DSCF8111.jpg)
Two assorted size parsnips, calabrese, two runners and lots of climbing purple french beans.
Also harvested, carrots and more small calabrese and purple sprouting. Got soaked from the knees down in the process.
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1 cabbage, 2 leeks, 3 parsnips, large serving of cavolo nero, red celery, last fennel bulb, and amazingly a handful of peas. Finally gave up on the sweetcorn, which never got to ripen this year.
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Loads of leeks & parsnips from the plot that I'm giving up.
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2 parsnips ,2 salsify, 2 scorzonera,10 carrots,6 spring onions,2 leeks, 2 swedes,4 cauliflower,6 beetroot,4 cabbage and 3 rasps
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Loads of chillis and some strawbs :)
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Boxes full of eating apples :)
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Carrots and cabbage.
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A bucket of cooking apples from my in-laws garden... :D
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from the plot today:
butternut squash (not so many as last year), carrots, beetroot, leeks, kale (my OH hates it!), chrysanthemums.
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I had a bizarre harvesting session on Sunday where I picked two cabbages, three leeks, turnips, radishes, a couple of kilos of brussel sprouts, raspberries, tomatoes, chillis and aubergines! Seemed so odd looking at the bounty - I would never think I would be picking brussel sprouts and tomatoes at the same time!
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6 beetroot,8 carrots,3 cabbage 3 cauli's,4 spring onion,bag of leaf beat,about 20 sprouts and some fallgold rasps
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0.5lb Austrian Cooking Radish
1.25lb Leeks
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Leeks, 1 cabbage, more cavolo nero (it doesn't stop growing), some red celery.
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Celery, carrots, curly kale and turnips, a bunch of chervil and what may well be the last cucumber from the minitunnel, this season
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Celery, beetroot, parsnip, leek and best of all - broad-beans from a summer sowing
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Parsnips, a swede, 2 leeks, a cabbage, pak choi, a small celeriac root, a lettuce and a green pepper from the plant I brought into the house :)
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A bucket of apples from my in-laws veg plot in Scotland.. made 18 jars of apple jelly :D :D
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Well done Gavin :)
Turnip ... The neep kind :D. Jings it was good :D :D :D
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a few nice plump leeks, a few Salsify roots, a cabbage
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We pulled leeks, parsnips, swedes and carrots! Fabulous.
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Yesterday I picked 1/2 a punnet of raspberries from the plants I was digging up & some baby beetroot I dug out of a raised bed I was moving to the new plot,nearly forgot I stem of very small brussels from the plot I am leaving.
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Swede, a Leek and enough Sprouts for tomorrows Roast Dinner.
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One Savoy and a bunch of Spring Onions
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Leek, a monster though by my standards. At least 3" diameter
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The last cabbage
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4 HUGE cauliflowers, three red cabbage, lots of kale and the very last handful of the cherry tomatos (i am so naughty, i have only just got round to emptying the green house!) A hanful of autumn fruting raspberries and a strawberry! ( ???)
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More leeks, a couple of parsnips and the last two beetroots
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bagful of kale and three beetroots
and ---- ten tomatoes from the greenhouse at home, while I was cutting down the plants that were still flowering :lol:
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2 cabbages,1 parsnip ,1 salsify,2 swedes a carrier bag of cooking apples,and a bag of potatoes
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Leeksand some rosemary for tea
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2 cabbages,1 parsnip, 1 salsify,1 scorzonera,2 swedes and a bag of spinach
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sage & chervil for the roast chicken, and one large, very spicy winter radish :lol:
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Baby carrots, leeks and kale. mmmmmmmmmm :)
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Kale.... and it's only me at home who likes it. ::)
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Dug up the last of the carrots before the slugs ate them all. All blanched and in the freezer!
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Brought in to the kitchen veg rack the last of my onions from the shed... My crop was minimal due to the new garden share I tried that was toooooooo shady..
Watch out this season.. planning to plant 450 sets..
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Some spinach beet, 15 Carrots (late sown so nice and tender), 3 big parsnips and 8 mini ones, a double handful of sprouts, 2 winter radish, all from the allotment. Some laxton superb apples and a bunch of watercress from outside my front door. Fantastic!
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Still picking Autumn Bliss raspberries - it must be their position as they've been a great success this year. Picked some spinach and mizuna.
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I harvested this lot today from the unheated greenhouse :)
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Yesterday I picked the following out of the poly tunnel for this week's salads at work: mizuna, cos lettuce, oak leaf lettuce, swiss chard, beetroot (the roots aren't forming so I'm using young leaves in salads), spring onions, mooli and corn salad.
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Kale.... and it's only me at home who likes it. ::)
Up-date: Me and the rabbit. ::)
Today - a big bunch of leeks dug. :)
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Not exactly harvested today (more like rescued from the greenhouse where they had been left to dry!) but the pic shows one of the 3 remaining Sweet Spanish Yellow onions I grew from seed this year (with the obligatory 50p coin for scale!)
It ain't perfect (neck's too thick) but it's still in good condition and considering my original 40 seedlings reduced to 10 miserable "chive seedlings" by the time I planted them outside in April and then just sat there doing nothing for a couple of months I am going to regard it as "a result!" ;)
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Wow... what very small 50ps you have in your part of the country :lol:
Seriouosly JayG - it's a cracker!! Brilliant. :)
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Thanks Paul!
Having still got plenty of seeds left I suppose I'll have to have another go next year to see if I can do better, even though it's not the best use of limited space - they were sown at the beginning of February and I finally yanked those last few out in late October (still growing!)
Yesterday I also found a Mikor shallot near the table I used to dry and sort out my crop back in August. Despite being outdoors on the concrete for 4 months it was in almost perfect condition apart from a tiny slug hole (in fact in far better shape than some of those carefully separated, dried, stored in a cool, dark place etc!) ::)
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If we have a bit more sun next year, you should do well with them - cos that's a good result for a bad year :)
My SSY were doing well until the White Rot claimed them, so I think that, as their name implies, they just need some nice weather. Fingers crossed 8)
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A couple of parsnips and a dozen leeks. I only grow a few because I am growing in my little garden but Dad will chop them all up and put them in the freezer so that we can still use them in soup even if we get a lot of snow. ;)
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Still picking Red Drumhead cabbages - we have it to go with dinner today. :) I still have quite a few leeks to pick and there are carrots in the polytunnel. :)
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Some carrots dug from the frosted ground. Managed to fight the temptation to lift a parsnip
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Leek and potato soup planned for Monday says Mrs Plots... :happy:
I had better find time to make some bread I guess.
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Peppers, chilli's and a few leeks :D
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Just wandered down to see if there will be anything to pick for festivities or not.
A few parsnips still in, a minicole for coleslaw, some lovely swede and leeks.....all the brussels are blown :( so I'll have one of my savoys instead.
All in all not as bad as I thought it would be :)
But the surprise was a bright green Romanesco broccolli head............I'd given up on them!
So it was brought home for tea :blink:
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Leeks. :)
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Best get a plumber in then.
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Ho Ho Ho! :lol:
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Leeks. :)
That's the last thing I need!!!!! :ohmy: Only just sorted the heating out by employing a new plumber who actually knew what he was doing. He did it quickly and very well. Hot radiators at long last and no leeks!!!
Oh. Sorry... :blush: I'm just a little too preoccupied with solving problems at the moment.
I plan to get to the plot tomorrow for leeks. Better flavour once the frost has been on them I think. ;)
(My leek seed will be going into trays in Fenruary....if I can find the packets!).
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Leeks, savoy cabbage and sprouts (small ones)
No swedes yet
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Disaaaaaaaaaster on my Christmas spuds... see my thread on GYO..
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Today's haul at the mud bath:
Leeks
A Savoy
Cooking Radish
Beetroot
Handful of Landcress
Couple of sprigs of Rosemary
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Leeks, Brussels, Spinach Beet and Beetroot :D
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Parsnips and purple brussels sprouts (do they go green in water, I wonder? ???), our own carrots (from freezer) tomorrow and some broccoli... maybe even two leeks in the morning if there's time... have a wonderful Christmas everyone. :D
it's the first time we've grown our own Christmas veg and I'm very proud!! :blink:
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Brussels sprouts and parsnips
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Parsnips and purple brussels sprouts (do they go green in water, I wonder? ???), our own carrots (from freezer) tomorrow and some broccoli... maybe even two leeks in the morning if there's time... have a wonderful Christmas everyone. :D
it's the first time we've grown our own Christmas veg and I'm very proud!! :blink:
Well done! They do go green, try steaming!
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Last of the baby carrots and chives. (Early/late?)
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I went out to pick some chives last night and they have been hammered by the frost.. >:( Not looked behind the shed lately!!
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Went and cut some cabbage for the coleslaw tomorrow, I have homegrown onions in the shed :) but I have to use shop bought carrots :(
Note to self...sow more carrots for late harvest next year!
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happy Christmas to you all. What follows is a first for me & I'm very proud.
Today I harvested 2 cucumbers from a plant that produced 1 fruit in the summer then was very sickly but perked up in Oct,so I took it into the conservatory where it produced another fruit, then the 2 that I picked today for our breakfast & started.
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For the first time, we had our own carrots and parsnips on the Christmas table - well chuffed ;)
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Cuc for brekky?? sounds a strange.. ;) fried with bacon then...
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I struggled to pick enough salad leaves for lunch today...bl@@dy slugs.............and yes there were blue death pellets in there >:(
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Just got to say -- all chrimbo lunch veggies were ours -- parsnips, kale, sprouts, roasted red onions, spuds, runner beans and carrots.
Well chuffed :D :D :D
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Mine were only onions, spuds and beans... Oh and bramble jelly for the poultry
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Cuc for brekky?? sounds a strange.. ;) fried with bacon then...
Sorry should of elaborated BLT with extras :happy:
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Baby new potatoes.(http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv100/tosca100-dog/xmas2011056.jpg)
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Pulled some carrots,leeks.sprouts they dont half taste good :)
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Our Christmas dinner was as follows,
From our garden,
Potatoes, swede, beetroot, carrots, parsnips, sage, shallot, rosemary, garlic and turkey.
From the shops,
pigs in blankets, sprouts and wine.
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Well believe it or not I got some raspberry from the veg plot today, that and some sprouts and kale
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Well believe it or not I got some raspberry from the veg plot today, that and some sprouts and kale
The way this winter has gone so far, that doesn't surprise me! :unsure:
Leeks and parsley today. We have new shoots on mint and chives, and the parsley is going to seed! ::)
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Carrots, parsnips & swede, (yes another swede), for a root veg mash with butter & pepper tomorrow, some stonking leeks that seem to have grown through the leek moth & spring onions.