Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: mumofstig on January 05, 2016, 18:39
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New Year new thread ;)
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Waded through the lake to get beetroot, celeriac, chard, kale, sprouts and swede - and a very pleasant vegetable soup they've made. I'd intended to also get some parsnips but think I might have have drowned trying to reach them ;) Next door's ducks seem to be having a whale of a time swimming around their pen.
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Leeks for leek & potato soup. Yum.
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Waded through to the plot this morning. Gathered lots of leeks, 2 cabbages (1 precoce de louviers that lasted well, 1 Ormskirk savoy), 2 beetroots, 2 salsify and some leaf beet. OH did his back in bending down to take off the cabbage netting, so we didn't stay and do anything once I'd harvested our veg.
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Leeks, cabbage, beetroot and rosemary all for dinner tonight. The last of the pak choi so I could clear the bed
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More leeks and savoys here :)
Only a few swede and leeks left now, then the plot is bare.
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Over the weekend, picked brussels sprouts and some of their tops.
Curly kale, spinach and chard
Carrots and leeks
Fresh mint in a tub in the greenhouse
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Kale, parsnips, leeks and chard :)
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Parsnips :)
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Yesterday, chard and spinach.
Today, leeks, brussel sprouts and pasrsnips.
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Lots and lots of leeks, chicory, beetroot, red cabbage, savoy cabbage, ordinary sprouts and red sprouts. Plus the world's smallest Romanesco cauliflower. Perfectly formed, just minute, which was a bit annoying given the plant was over 2 foot tall and has been in the ground for months.
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Picked my first lot of PSB for this year :D
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The last of the parsnips and leeks plus some kale and PSB
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Parsnips. carrots, leeks and brussels sprouts
Curly kale
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Today I picked a cabbage and pulled up a few leeks to make bubble & squeak for dinner! Delicious
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Parsnips and leeks for with beef casserole. 😊
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Brussels, leeks, psb, red kale and a minute savoy.
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A small savoy cabbage and some lovely chunky Bleu de Solaise leeks.
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Parsnips & carrots for us & a stalk of cavelo Nero for DDs chickens- it was beginning to flower
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Leeks, parsnips and sprouts from outdoor patch. Chioggas and carrots from polytunnel
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Yesterday, chard
Today, leeks, carrots, parsnips, brussels sprouts and some brussels sprout tops
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Another savoy cabbage, brussels sprouts and sprout tops, and more leeks.
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Last of the red brussels sprouts and their tops.
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Leeks, leeks and more leeks! Nobody gets away empty-handed :D
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Just picked the last of my brussels sprouts too.
Still plenty of leeks left, just picked a few for tonight along with some spinach.
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Sunday was leeks and parsnips.
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Leeks and some Sarpo Mira potatoes I "came across" when I was clearing the bed.
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Spinach yesterday.
Today was leeks and parsnips. Carrots from the patio pots.
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Six small swede and three smaller savoy cabbage. A white cabbage and a couple of red cabbage that didn't really have heart just leaves but OH makes lovely stir fried red cabbage.
Still plenty of spinach and chard for next visit.
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Pulled the last of the parsnips for dinner tonight. Lovely!
Just 3 cabbage, 6 swede and a few leeks left.
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I'm pretty much worked through my plot as well, but came home with some leeks :)
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Brought home the tops of the Cavolo Nero plants which are really flower heads and finishing. Plus a small handful of PSB (although most of my PSB plants are still growing leaves not flowers).
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I think my leeks are breeding behind my back. I thought I'd lifted them all from three beds, but another three or four have suddenly appeared.
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Yesterday I lifted some Nantes carrots (Wikes builders bucket) and found about 60% were ruined by beetle lava, not sure of the species but they are about twice the size of the average Weevil type, I had forgotten about them and should have lifted much sooner, oh well, Dave
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Last of the parsnips. Had a great crop this time.
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Leeks, sprout tops, cavolo nero and tops, psb and the first rhubarb picking this year.
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Yes, I'll be picking the first few stalks of rhubarb too this weekend.
still got the odd leek plant growing but am going to pull them up and put them in a bucket of water to stay fresh as I want to dig over the patch they occupy. Also found a couple of parsnips that I'd missed when I rough dug the patch a couple of weeks ago
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Spring onions (over wintered in the cold frame). Leeks (still going strong), I'll need to look up storage for these as I need the ground soon. Last savoy cabbages only good enough for the chickens now. The last of the celeriac 6 roots.
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Dug up the last of White Gem Parsnips, been another great year for them.
Three colander loads of spinach, reducing some of the plants to get some new started.
Last of the Chantenay Red Carrots from the pots, pulled up ready for a new sowing.
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Purple sprouting. Really nice crop. Spring onions from the cold frame
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One Asparagus spear and a couple of baby Pak Choi grown under cloches. Plus some forced Rhubarb. New season is off and running!
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Spring onions (over wintered in the cold frame). Leeks (still going strong), I'll need to look up storage for these as I need the ground soon. Last savoy cabbages only good enough for the chickens now. The last of the celeriac 6 roots.
I froze some of mine successfully last year, didn't blanch them either,was good to be able to add handful to stews & casseroles during the summer, I also did the same with the parsnips
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Cut three large and one skinny asparagus spear.
We're off.
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Picked the first lot of Rhubarb for this year.
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I picked a huge bunch of cheerfulness narcissi to take home. The scent is wonderful, and they were my reward for three hours of digging and rotovating.
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1 lonely sparrow grass spear ::) It's the thought that counts.
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Small crop of Spinach from under the cloches over the allotment.
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Lots of rhubarb and another 3 'bonus potatoes'
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Spinach and nice load of Rhubarb.
Lettuce that's been growing well in the greenhouse for a few weeks.
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A big bag of PSB :) and the first spring cabbage.
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I had my first outside lettuce today
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My first radishes and some rocket from poly. Lifted the last of the leeks to freeze later.
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Radishes and Spring Onions from the mini-tunnel, a large juicy lettuce from under a cloche and a big bunch of PSB
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Rhubarb and greenhouse grown lettuce.
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Rhubarb from first allotment
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We've had our first courgettes and more first early potatoes, sorrel.
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Lettuce and Radish
Parsley, Oregano, Mint, Thyme, Chives and Sage
Rhubarb
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Cress! :D
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Broad beans! And the last of the PSB. :)
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Broccoli Raab, my first every sowing and picking, just delicious.
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30th May 2016
Picked first strawberries and some Broad Beans
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Rhubarb and more rhubarb! :D
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First strawberries but the slugs have been harvesting all week by the looks of things :(
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Spring onions for with my tea!
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More rhubarb
First Swiss chard and spinach of this year.
First load of Duke of York first earlies from the test bucket.
Lettuce and radish.
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Tatsoi, Lollo Rossa, Arctic King, Mint all to go in a salad for tea. Spring onions are the Stuttgarter I forgot to plant out ::)
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A globe artichoke and asparagus
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Broad beans and lettuce tonight. I'll finish the first half of the broad beans at the weekend. I am hopeful that I'll have my first strawberries for this year at the weekend.
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Rhubarb and strawberries from outside and then from polytunnel Chiogga Beetroot, turnip and spuds
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Today is a special day for me because this is the first time I've been able to post on this thread.
I harvested some of my mixed varieties of lettuce for a lunchtime salad.
Do you remember the first time you picked and ate something you had grown from seed? If you remember the thrill and satisfaction that gave you, you'll understand why I'm coming over a little melodramatic today! :D
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My first spuds of the year today. Eleven Charlottes out of a 12" pot which I started in the greenhouse and moved outside about six weeks ago. Really tasty.
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Spring onions to chop up with Chinese ingredients in the wok.
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Today is a special day for me because this is the first time I've been able to post on this thread.
Yay :D Congratulations Vagabond. It is a wonderful feeling when you get to eat your first harvest and the best bit is you still get to have that warm feeling of satisfaction, however many harvests you make.
Well maybe not so much when it is the 50th courgette of the season and you're wondering what else you can make from them, but that's a minor detail we'll gloss over for now :nowink:
On the 'What's for tea' thread we call it engaging smug mode when we list all the crops we have incorporated into our meal :lol:
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Emptied a bag of Duke of York first earlies yesterday.
More Rhubarb.
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Rhubarb, strawberries, Cavolo Nero, Chard and perpetual spinach. Broad beans at the weekend I reckon.
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First picking of broad beans
Radish and lettuce
More rhubarb
More duke of york first earlies
Picked plenty of herbs over the weekend, mint, sage, oregano, basil, parsley, chives and thyme.
Picked a load of chive flowers
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More Charlottes out of a bucket. All from one seed spud.
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2 x lettuce: potatoes: first raspberries: strawberries: spring onions and three small courgettes.
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Strawberries (rather watery) and a few broad/field beans.
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Picked all my broad beans as they have rust all over them! 3 carrier bags full.
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I'm regularly harvesting salad leaves now, which is lovely - and I've got more seedlings coming on, so hoping the bounty will continue.
I inadvertently harvested a potato the other day. This happened when I was re-earthing up some of my potato plants which had been battered by rain and strong winds. As I was pushing the earth back around one of them (with my hands) an egg-sized potato rolled out of the ground! It's currently sitting proudly in my fruit bowl. ;)
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I'm regularly harvesting salad leaves now, which is lovely - and I've got more seedlings coming on, so hoping the bounty will continue.
I inadvertently harvested a potato the other day. This happened when I was re-earthing up some of my potato plants which had been battered by rain and strong winds. As I was pushing the earth back around one of them (with my hands) an egg-sized potato rolled out of the ground! It's currently sitting proudly in my fruit bowl. ;)
Don't leave it too long it will go green
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Oops! I didn't realise that could happen, snowdrops. I've put the potato away in my veggie box now.
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Piles of broad beans.
Rhubarb, carrots, cabbage, asparagus, rosemary and mint.
Lettuce of all sorts and radish.
Picked and ate on the spot the first lot of raspberries and had a small bowlful of strawberries.
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Picked good amount of my first strawberries which were pretty big and delicious. Have salad leaves at home and lots of basil, thyme, chives and radish.
Potatoes have lots of flowers on earlies so hoping to be eating soon :)
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Yesterday- 10 & a half pounds of homegrown strawberries- 6lb are now made up into jam😄 The rest have been enjoyed by friends & family
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Everything is so far behind this year! Had some broad beans, lettuce and rhubarb today. I don't think my onions are going to make it :( Going to try seeds next year
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A bucket load of broad beans.
Asparagus.
Swiss chard and spinach.
Lettuce and radish
Strawberries and raspberries
Duke of york and charlotte potatoes.
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Iceberg lettuce, lettuce leaves another 4 punnets of strawberries, some Swift potatoes- but not many from 3 seed potatoes😞
& gifted from plot neighbour,radish,broad beans & 2 artichoke heads(these to try- how do you eat / prepare them?)
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2 artichoke heads(these to try- how do you eat / prepare them?)
What a nice gift :) I have been eating mine for a few weeks now and they are delicious. It is a bit of a ritual to eat them, but very enjoyable for a lazy, messy, hands-on lunch. Think eating prawns out the shell or something similar and have some paper towel to wipe your fingers on standby :D
Get a pan of boiling water ready with a generous squeeze of lemon juice in it as they discolour fast. Trim the stem and pull off the very tough leaves at the base. Simmer until you can just pierce through the base part with a knife.
To eat, you pull off the leaves one by one. The first ones will just have a tiny bite of tender flesh at the base which you pull off the leaf with your teeth, or bite right through if it is soft enough. As you get further in you get a bigger and bigger bite.
In the middle is a fluffy thistle-like bit that you need to scrape out with a teaspoon. Now you just have the heart, which is the base where all the leaves were attached and you can eat the lot :)
Dip into melted butter or salad dressing as you eat if you want a quick fix. I think the proper accompaniment is hollandaise sauce if you want to push the boat out.
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lots of charlotte pots, more to come. peas, also more to come. courgettes.....needless to say.....LOTS more to come. some strawberries that were eaten by my next door neighbour's son before I even had chance to see how they tasted! (not many more to come...not sure why I have such a low yield this year) all of the normal salad crops feeding us and the neighbours daily.
just when you think you have done the hard work clearing/planting/sowing, the real work starts as what to do with all the produce you end up with.......happy days!
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2 artichoke heads(these to try- how do you eat / prepare them?)
What a nice gift :) I have been eating mine for a few weeks now and they are delicious. It is a bit of a ritual to eat them, but very enjoyable for a lazy, messy, hands-on lunch. Think eating prawns out the shell or something similar and have some paper towel to wipe your fingers on standby :D
Get a pan of boiling water ready with a generous squeeze of lemon juice in it as they discolour fast. Trim the stem and pull off the very tough leaves at the base. Simmer until you can just pierce through the base part with a knife.
To eat, you pull off the leaves one by one. The first ones will just have a tiny bite of tender flesh at the base which you pull off the leaf with your teeth, or bite right through if it is soft enough. As you get further in you get a bigger and bigger bite.
In the middle is a fluffy thistle-like bit that you need to scrape out with a teaspoon. Now you just have the heart, which is the base where all the leaves were attached and you can eat the lot :)
Dip into melted butter or salad dressing as you eat if you want a quick fix. I think the proper accompaniment is hollandaise sauce if you want to push the boat out.
Thank you, they're still in the fridge,might try for lunch tomorrow then,lemon oil woukd be good maybe on them
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Lots of strawberries at plot but nothing else! Loads of salad crops and herbs at home
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This week we've done well.
We had the first of our charlotte potatoes and the very first raspberry of the season!
Started picking the gooseberries and blackcurrants, also still picking a large punnet of strawberries and a large bowl of waverex peas daily, a few spring onions, rocket and radishes. We also picked our first Telegraph Cucumber and 3 Mini Cucumbers.
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Charlotte potatoes
Broad beans
Radish
Lettuce
Bucket of spinach
Gooseberries
Raspberries
Strawberries
Mint
Sweet Peas
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Pulled up ten lots of red sun shallots this evening to dry out and ripen up. The weather isn't great and they have a few lank leaves plus slugs about so thought best pull em.
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Beetroot-the first of the year.
Strawberries
Raspberries
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Picked my first broad beans. There weren't many of a decent size - so we only had a small spoonful each - but they looked so good I just couldn't wait to try a few. They tasted as good as they looked so now I'll practise a bit more patience with the rest of the crop!
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New spuds, beetroot, sugar snap peas and yellow and green courgettes.
Cheers HH
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First of the potatoes last night.
Lovely!
Cheers
Aled
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Onions, red onions and loads of chard, a handful of blueberries.
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Woohoo :D Back from the plot and feeling over the moon with this lot :D :D :D There is stuff doing not so well, but I've got my blinkers on and am celebrating the success stories ;)
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A huge pile of greens, tayberries and loganberries, khol rabi, fennel 8) (so proud of this), yellow and purple french beans, peas, a few mangetout, a couple of onions, cherry tomatoes and a round courgette.
There was a big bag of new potatoes as well. Enough to share with neighbours, which is always a good moment, as freshly dug spuds are regarded as a great treat and eagerly snatched up :)
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That fennel looks amazing, New Shoot. I've not yet mastered growing it - I either sow it too soon, and it sulks and does nothing, or I sow it too late and it bolts. What variety is it, and most importantly, what is your secret? Are the tomatoes outdoor ones, or do you have a greenhouse or polytunnel on the plot?
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Courgettes, potatoes, peas, broad beans, lettuce and raspberries :D
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What variety is it, and most importantly, what is your secret?
It is Finale and is bred to be bolt resistant, so you can sow early. Mine was started in modules in the unheated greenhouse at home. It is the first decent crop I have ever produced, so I have no secrets :lol:
The toms are actually from the greenhouse at home as well. Sorry, I should have made that clear, however, if you want a really early outside one, Latah is about the best. Mine at home are about full sized and just going that paler green colour that shows they are about to turn red. This variety sprawls everywhere and is very untidy, but I forgive it for the early fruit :)
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Thanks for the information ref the fennel variety. I have tried Florence and Taurus in the past, but next year I'll sow Finale, and hope to 'Finalee' achieve fennel with a bulb.
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Over the weekend
Bowls of raspberries
Bowl of strawberries
Bowls of gooseberries
Spinach and Chard
First tomato, a garden pearl
Peas
Buckets of broad beans
Tendergreen dwarf french Beans
Sweet Peas
First Burpless cucumber
International Kidney and charlotte potatoes
Lettuce and radish
Mint, parsley, basil and sage.
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Duke of York and arran pilot new potatoes, great.
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Wow Lettice what a haul. I harvested new potatoes and raspberries. Summer cabbages are nearly ready can't wait.
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3 cucumbers from the greenhouse & 6 courgettes from the plot,1 strawberry & a small serving of raspberries
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Lady Christl potatoes, blueberries, 2 lettuces, the first courgette :) and the first handful of French beans :D
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2lb of raspberries, a courgette, a bunch of basil and some broad beans.
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Yesterday:
Another courgette (the 4th)
Some more 1st earlies. About % dug up so far and all looking good.
Cauliflower #4 (only about a dozen more to go...)
A couple of over-wintering onions.
Some over-wintered garlic.
A handful of rasps and strawberries.
Some salad leaves, basil and parsley (last niht's salad!)
Today:
4 cherries and nothing else as I almost drowned in the rain getting those!
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Raspberries and gooseberries. At home rocket, basil and spinach.
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Was given a cabbage by quiet Dave when I remarked on the size of one, he gave me a smaller one thankfully, got it home & once stripped down it weighed 5lbs 3 ozs😱, anyone for cabbage! Picked 2 green & 1 yellow courgette, gave Dave 1 of the green. Dug a root of Winston potatoes up- 5:1/2 lbs so not bad. A few raspberries & a couple of strawberries,some beetroot,a mooli radish, some mange tout & broad beans
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Bought a beautiful freshly caught turbot in our local market this morning. We had it for lunch with my first harvest of potatoes and broad beans - all variously seasoned using rosemary, thyme and mint from the garden.
And it was all delicious!
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French beans, shallots and beetroot. Fantastic.
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cauliflower, courgettes, raspberries, peas, spring onions and swift potatoes. runner beans nearly ready :D
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Picked 6 large cucumbers,1 yesterday & 5 today😱. Picked a handful of broad beans today,there were more but I hadn't got time to deal with them, & dug up the first showings of carrots as they'd got carrot fly, but I found a few were ok so they came home
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What variety is it, and most importantly, what is your secret?
It is Finale and is bred to be bolt resistant, so you can sow early. Mine was started in modules in the unheated greenhouse at home. It is the first decent crop I have ever produced, so I have no secrets :lol:
I'm growing fennel - and it's looking great. As a newbie to veggie growing, I blithely bought the seeds, not knowing this can be a tricky crop (one of the good things about knowing nothing really). I'll have to dig out the seed packet to see what variety it is - but in the meantime, I'm anticipating harvesting my first bulbs quite soon. :)
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Well rub your hands at a stroke of beginners luck and get ready for your fennel harvest Vagabond :lol: Its one of those crops. Some seem to find it easy, others like me and Jaydig struggle with it. If you have the knack, just keep doing what you are doing :)
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I wish I could tell you what I've been doing to succeed with the fennel, New Shoot, but the truth is I've largely ignored them because they've been happily growing and looking after themselves! :D
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4 French beans :lol:, 1 yellow courgette and a punnet of blueberries
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My first ripe tomato of the year :D
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Another handful of French beans, 3 baby courgettes , 4 baby lettuces, Charlotte potatoes, blueberries and a few raspberries :)
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Over the weekend;
First big picking of Painted lady runner beans
Last picking of broad beans
Garden Pearl tomatoes
A few Burpless cucumbers
Loads of dwarf 'tendergreen' french beans
Raspberries
Chard and spinach and a spring cabbage
Beetroot
Mixed Lettuce
Piles of sage, basil and oregano
Charlotte and International kidney potatoes
Two large bowls of peas
Sweet peas
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A very colourful haul - Lady Christl potatoes, blueberries, rainbow chard, purple and green French beans, yellow and green courgettes and blackberries :D
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I wish I could tell you what I've been doing to succeed with the fennel, New Shoot, but the truth is I've largely ignored them because they've been happily growing and looking after themselves! :D
Harvested the first fennel bulb today and had it for lunch (braised with fish). I was delighted and astonished at the aroma and taste... incredible after shop bought fennel!
(I added the bananas to show the size of the bulb)
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French beans, perpetual spinach and chard, anchocha, tomatoes and .............. the first of the Minipop sweetcorn. New shoot does the dance of joy while guiltily wiping the remains off her face. There was no chance of that making it home from the plot :lol:
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First runner beans, more broad beans
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Just picked a few runner beans and a couple of courgettes. Starting to get fennel envy 🙈🙈
Cheers HH
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Courgettes, French beans, blueberries and raspberries :).
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Last root of Winston potatoes & first of Ambo. More courgettes, hubby harvested all the remaining broad beans, he even podded them sat on the bench to save taking the pods home to take back to the plot to compost. All bagged & frozen now. A few more straw S & a few raspberries.
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I'm learning the value of staggering plantings and wish I'd realised this when I started.
The broad beans aren't a problem because I've picked and frozen two batches and will do the rest in the next day or two.
My fennel is coming thick and fast. We've eaten another bulb and given one away. I'll have to see if I can find a freezable recipe for the rest because much as I love fennel, I don't want to eat it daily for the next three weeks!
I harvested all my maris piper potatoes this morning because they were showing signs of blight and I don't want to lose my main crop. But now I've got way too many potatoes out of the ground, so will give some away to friends this evening.
Such a learning curve this veggie growing malarkey (but I am enjoying it too!). :D
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Picked my one and only gladstone apple and very nice it was too :tongue2: It's a long wait now for the gala to be ready :(
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Potato's (despite the blight) and runner beans harvested over the weekend. Eaten with a self caught sea trout which was very nice!
Cheers
Aled
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This weekend picked
Runner beans and more runner beans
Peas
Dwarf french beans
Rhubarb
Beetroot, lettuce and cucumbers
Tomatoes; Garden Pearl and Sweet and Neat yellow and red
Curly Kale
Charlotte and International kidney potatoes
Raspberries
Mint and basil
Sweet peas
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The first ripe tomato of the season! :D
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Tomatoes including first plum tom, a load of French beans before they get eaten by slugs after another wet day!
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2 little Sungold tomatoes, loads of French beans, 1 yellow courgette - and there would have been blueberries and raspberries but my 8 year old helper ate them all before they reached the punnet :D
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Couple of cukes - I may have planted too many this year :nowink: , 2 sungold toms still no other variety looking like ripening, found a ripe blackberry :ohmy: and mushroom tub of plums, all I've cut into so far have had plum moth though :(
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Courgettes, root of Ambo potatoes,radishes,gladioli, blackcurrants,red currants, cherries,blackberries,few strawberries. Runner beans,2 cauliflowers.
Now prepped & cooked to get the juice to make jelly- 2lb black currants & 2 of red currants. 5lb of blackberries & 5 of cherries in the freezer. I'm pooped
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Over the weekend;
Loads of runner beans
Dwarf french beans
Raspberries
Peas
Tomatoes
Lettuce
Cucumber
International Kidney potatoes
Baby carrots
Chard, Curlt kale and spring cabbage
All sorts of herbs
Sweet peas
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Had a nice afternoon working off a pub lunch! Got peas, beans, rhubarb and was given a red cabbage which should pickle up well.
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Another 2 large punnets of blackberries, a few more strawbs, a handful of green & purple French beans & runner beans, another 6 courgettes
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Eaten the first of the Tomatoes, Carrots, and beetroot.
Cheers
Aled
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Picked my first cabbage on Saturday which I lightly steamed and served with a fish pie topped by 'my' mashed potatoes. Possibly the tastiest cabbage I've ever eaten. :D
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Had home-grown roasted potatoes, fennel, red onions and my first beetroot today for lunch (along with other things!)
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Courgettes, Charlotte potatoes, French beans, Lollo Rossa lettuce, spring onions, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries
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Harvested my first red cabbage - cooked it 'Austrian style' with apple and served it with sausages and creamy mash (my potatoes) and onion gravy (my onions) - utterly delicious - utterly delighted! :D
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Too many beans...and some more berries 8)
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Cherry toms, Plum toms, spring onions, bell pepper and Belgian white carrot. Plus a big bunch of sweet pea flowers.
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Last few days have picked;
More buckets of runner beans
Cucumbers
Duke of York, Charlotte and International Kidney potatoes from tubs and bags.
Tomatoes;
Tigrella, Garden Pearl, Golden Sunrise, Red Cherry, Gardener's Delight and Sweet & Neat red/yellow
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French beans, peas and beetroot this afternoon.
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More onions and a row of Picasso maincrop potatoes.
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Went with grandson to plot for couple of hours. Harvested some potatoes, cabbage, runner beans, found an onion I had missed. Also harvested a cucumber and some tomatoes and garlic.
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Courgettes, French beans, beetroot, blueberries, raspberries, damsons, Bramleys and figs
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Cucumbers, runner beans, potatoes, and strawberries. Plus some apples from Mam n Dad's apple tree.
Cheers
Aled
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Pulled up half of my red onions and dug over and weeded area. Will get the other half next visit.
Picked a few broad beans but small crop.
Lots of raspberries to pick next time too and think some of my sweetcorn looks ready :).
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Raspberries, red onions, carrots, turnips, runner beans, sweet corn, beetroot, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes. Guess what I'll be doing this afternoon. This season has had its ups and downs, but some of the veg seems to have loved it. I don't think I've very had such a bounty of fruit and veg. The neighbours are loving it :D
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Tomatoes very slow this year, got one yesterday and its my third so far!
Cheers
Aled
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The last, (3rd picking) of broad beans, but the first of my Kestrel and Desiree spuds.
Plenty more to come yet. Now collecting around 12 toms per day.
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Picked all my beetroot because they weren't doing too well. I now have a couple of jars of pickled baby beets. :)
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Picked a colander full of chard
San Marzono tomatoes
Basil, thyme and oregano
More runner beans
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Lifted more Kestrel spuds, I'll probably dig the last two rows tomorrow, and picked 2lbs of french beans and a dozen toms. We need to start eating the cucumber.
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Last of the onions out, racked up for drying out.
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3 summer cabbages, some runner beans and a cucumber
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More runner beans
Beetroot, lettuce
Baby carrots
Peas
Cucumbers
Tomatoes; Tigrella, Garden Delight, Golden Sunrise, Red Cherry, Cerise, Garden Pearl, Sweet & Neat Red/Yellow
Sweet peas
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Pulled up the rest of my onions yesterday and left them where they were because the weather was so hot and sunny. It's drizzling this morning so I'll pop up and get them onto a rack to dry. My red onions didn't do too well and most are no bigger than a golf ball but the rest are generally fine.
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Last of the potatoes harvested and eaten over the weekend. Plenty of runner beans.
Cheers
Aled
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Had a very productive early morning session :)
Runner beans, beetroot, carrots, Daikon radish, beetroot, chard, 2 small acorn squash, blackberries and courgettes!
Afternoon in the kitchen I think!
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IIRC last August was very dull and the runner beans and courgettes slowed down much sooner than average.
Suffice it to say that today I've been looking up recipes for bean and courgette chutney!
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Pulled up the desiree potatoes on Monday, not all brilliant but some good ones.
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Other half of my harvest of red onions. Raspberries and broad beans
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Picked a selection for the in-laws. Approx 1lb of raspberries, beetroot, runners, purple french beans, golden and yellow tomatoes, couple of onions. Then for tea tonight, a few mange tout and young pea pods which we've dipped in humous and the first cauliflower of the season. Can smell caulk-cheese in the oven as i type.
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Carrots! But the blinking slugs are eating to many!
Cheers
Aled
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Charlotte and desiree potatoes and raspberries.
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My biggest tomato this year............. so far, and it isn't even a large variety.
11.9ozs. Just under 3/4ib.
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Unplanned harvesting of rhubarb which had fallen apart in the strong winds.
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A good load of tomatoes for a bolognaise sauce, herbs will come from the back yard pots. ☺
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Broccoli and more raspberries.
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The last of the potatoes, a few courgettes, French beans, tomatoes, chillies and the first of the parsnips :)
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20 sweetcorn 2lb of French beans 5lb of tomatoes 2pumpkins 4squas onions blackberries . Loads more to pick and its still growing even in north east England.
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Chard, spinach and Kale yesterday.
Today,
Loads of raspberries
Runner beans, french beans and hunter beans.
More sweetcorn, x8 today
Tomatoes and cucumbers.
Turnips, beetroot and lettuce.
Charlotte potatoes and some Maris Piper.
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I tried some of the sweetcorn i have grown,yummy :) so much nicer than the shop ones,i will grow again next year,i have about another 20 cobs to go.
10 minutes in the microwave table spoon of water and cover with a lid or cling film,purfect every time.
Is it best to freeze them with the outer leaves on??.
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Fennel, broccoli and Brussel sprouts.
Plus a few remaining French beans and yet more raspberries of course :D
Cheers HH
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I tried some of the sweetcorn i have grown,yummy :) so much nicer than the shop ones,i will grow again next year,i have about another 20 cobs to go.
10 minutes in the microwave table spoon of water and cover with a lid or cling film,purfect every time.
Is it best to freeze them with the outer leaves on??.
No, remove all leaves and "Strings," and you could cut them into " bite chunks" If you freeze as is you may have protein alongside the corn.. ie earwig breakfast or similar!
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Toady;
Runner beans
Cobra beans
Hunter beans
Turnips
Carrots
Beetroot
Raspberries
Sage
Tomatoes
Through the last week, Runner beans, cobra beans, Kale, Chard, Spinach, basil, parsley and tomatoes, sweetcorn
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Not many of us have grown sweetcorn this year. We now have a Badger set behind the plots, they ate everyones last year and again this year.
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White carrots, parsnip, celeriac, Italian beetroot and spring onions
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a handful of sprouts and autumn king carrots. both because i couldnt resist and fancied them with dinner tonight
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Half a dozen parsnips because I couldn't resist either 😄 Plus I have so many 👼 Hehe. 2 cabbages that were on the small side after I'd stripped off the manky leaves! A bucket full of huge beetroot, now cooked & waiting pickling etc. Half a punnet of raspberries, 3 bunches of chrysanthemums, I given to young Bob for his mum.
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Last of the beetroot and a few onions, 2 butternut squashes left and that's it.
Cheers
Aled
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Parsnips, kale and beetroot
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Last of my desiree potatoes and some turnips and fennel.
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Dug up the rest of my potatoes on Saturday because it's been so wet I was worried that they might be rotting in the ground. Most of them were fine and I gave a bucket full to friends because I don't think they'll store too well.
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My beloved cooked the last of the beetroot yesterday, it was fantastic. Some butternut squash left and that's it for this year!
Cheers
Aled
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Parsnips, the last of the beans and courgettes, the first of the calabrese :), carrots and various greens
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Last tomatoes to ripen in the kitchen window and a load of chilli peppers.
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Last of broccoli and one pumpkin.
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A load of leeks with rock-hard centre stems
Two Italian beetroot
One of the last twenty celeriacs
Parsnip
I still have plenty of the beetroot and leeks still to harvest plus two huge butternut squashes (6lb each at a guess) and a few quite small ones. The squashes are in the polytunnel so should be OK for a while yet
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Six rather small butternut squash ;)
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Butternut squash
Spring onions the size of shallots
Woody leek
Italian beetroot
Celeriac
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4 huge heads of broccoli (really pleased with them :D), parsnips and carrots :)
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Dug up the last of my fennel, two heads. Couple of turnips, plenty left, a cabbage and the tiniest beetroot ever :)
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6 heads of broccoli, the last of the carrots and a loose leafed cabbage
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A couple of celeriac and a couple of woody leeks
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Hubby's been harvesting the carrots all week, why he doesn't bring for more than one or two days at a time🙄
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Fri/Sat
Kale, spinach and Chard
Beetroot
Today
Brussels sprouts
Parsnips
Baby carrots from the patio containers
Cabbage
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Yesterday harvested carrots & parsnips to go with roast dinner
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Crop of maris peer from my new half plot surprisingly undamaged, a few turnips and some sprouts.
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Dug up 13 celeriac to store in the shed
All that's left in the ground now are a few Spring Onions and about 6 Chiogga
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My parsnips are still going strong. Pulled up a couple for lunch and I was delighted by the size of one of them... my biggest, juiciest parsnip yet!
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Hubby's been harvesting the carrots all week, why he doesn't bring for more than one or two days at a time🙄
At their best when they are really freshly dug and........ who could resist a quick trip to the plot ;)
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Sprouts, carrots, huge parsnips, one pathetic swede (why can't I grow these?) leeks and a savoy cabbage.
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Hubby's been harvesting the carrots all week, why he doesn't bring for more than one or two days at a time🙄
At their best when they are really freshly dug and........ who could resist a quick trip to the plot ;)
Yes normally I would agree, but back then the weather was set to be wet & or frosty & we were very busy, plus washed & wrapped in damp kitchen paper & wrapped tightly in a plastic bag they keep quite well for 3/4 days.
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Leeks, leeks and a few more leeks...
Lovely covered in cheese or white sauce then finished off in the oven as an extra veg on Christmas Day.... and again a few days later.
Supplied the family with a few for their meals at home.
Noting else from my little plot.
Lifted the last of my carrots ages ago snowdrop as I grew less than I once did - less space these days.
Like your method of keeping them fresh. 8)
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Multiple pickings over this Christmas week of parsnips, leeks, carrots and brussels sprouts.
Good load of our potatoes from the potato store.
Just picked a load of Kale for this weekend.