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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: richy on January 03, 2013, 19:44
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Kale and parsnips, im coming to the end of our kale but there must be another 100 weight of parsnips left in the ground (soup) umm :tongue2:
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I've split your post off, richy.
You can have the honour of starting the 2013 thread!
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Nero Kale, Brocoli, Sprouts, Cabbage and a few carrots
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6 leeks (my best performing crop this/last year), to go with the last of the spuds and be made into leek and potato soup tonight!
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Leeks about 15 in number all different sizes from pencil thick up to about an inch, never had them this bad, still very nice with some cheese sauce on :D some parsnips and swede. :)
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parsnips for me today (about all i have left on the plot), still got another couple of small rows to pull up. Very pleased with how well they did, considering a) i've never attempted to grow them before and b) they didn't go in until May as the previous 2 sowing attempts failed miserably.
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Few carrots and parsnips...made into soup..de-lic-ious :nowink:
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Some skinny leeks ::) and a fat Tundra cabbage which will last me a good few meals :D
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Some parsnips ,kale ,cabbages and leaf beat.
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Parsnips, red chard, leeks.
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Parsnips, kale and a neibour kindly gave me some leeks.
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Salad leaves, to go with chicken fajita's for T
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Cabbage, parsnips, leeks and a few tough carrots.
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Found some baby carrots in a pot hidden away and some leeks and swede.
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The last of the Sprouts, some Turnips and several Salsify.
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last of the mini-sprouts! next to last digging of carrots..found parsnips..probably still a few few left if i can find them :unsure:
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Just Parsnips for me today, but the cupboard is becoming bare :ohmy: Realy not a lot left :nowink: will have to do better this year :lol:
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I was pleasantly surprised on 30th December to see purple sprouting almost fit to pick, and six days ago had my first picking, and took a second harvest today.
Pulled carrots, parnips and leeks for some homemade soup which will take three days to consume, but decided to once again leave digging potatoes and oca due to a blizzard of liquid snow this morning.
Also took the very last harvest of runner bean seed off the row.
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Not much here either ....... Leeks and parsnips.
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Yet more purple sprouting, it`s coming on strong now.
(http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa363/trevor3457/DSC00417_zpsb15136bc.jpg)
Also broccoli romanesco, sown at the correct time in May. The seed packet says harvest in September/October, so the plants are only three months late maturing!
(http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa363/trevor3457/DSC00418_zps9c399bb8.jpg)
Plus two buckets of roosters and a few carrots.
(http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa363/trevor3457/DSC00423_zpsccbdc82a.jpg)
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Wow, that all looks amazing. Sadly, not expecting much today.
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lots of leeks
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We all sledged to the plot to get sprouts and some very hard to find parsnips :lol:
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The last of the red cabbage, a January King cabbage and some leeks :)
Quite chuffed with that lot :)
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4 cabbages , some kale and spinach
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Last of the kale and some parsnips.
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A good picking of sprouts, last Septembers Desiree stored in the shed, leeks (best ever leek crop Ive grown) and some baby carrots from a tub.
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OH came back with 6 skinny leeks, 4 swede, 2 celeriac half a carrier of parsnips, half a carrier of beetroot 3 stalks of brussels.
We still have a bed full of parsnips, swede and celeriac and we are really chuffed 'cos this is the first time we have tried growing parsnips and swede.
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Didn`t go far for today`s harvest, just into the conservatory for some parsley which has been growing on the windowsill since the seed was sown last August.
(http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa363/trevor3457/DSC00465.jpg)
Pictured outside on the patio before receiving a good watering.
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mmmmmm I fancy some fish in parsley sauce, now ;)
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That parsley does look good :D
I had a decent haul --beetroot, kale, leeks, parsnips and some sage all for dinner tomorrow, and some smallish oca for in the week
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Half a dozen good size leeks for a leek and potato soup tomorrow
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Just collected some parsnips today and three inches of mud on the bottom of my boots :lol:
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a few more leeks .........
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6 Parsnips ,kale , Spinach beet and some Swiss Chard
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A couple of leeks went in my tea :)
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Five leeks that went into some homemade mushroom soup
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My sister wanted to try out and taste my oriental leaves in a salad, so I harvested some for her family! Waiting to hear back sometime if she liked them. Also picked up some winter squash that I leave in my polytunnel to make some soup later. :)
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Picked a bunch of parsley that is growing nicely in the greenhouse.
Picked sprouts, spinach and some baby carrots.
Picked a bucket of leeks, smaller ones to make a nice batch of soup.
Did a bit of digging and dug up a nice load of roosters that I must have missed last autumn.
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8 celeriac
8 swede
2 carriers of parsnips
1/2 a carrier of leek.
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A couple of swede and some Sutherland kale from the plot, a few leeks from the garden :)
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about a kilo of jerusalem artichokes. need to try to do something with them that actually makes them taste nice! :wub:
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about a kilo of jerusalem artichokes. need to try to do something with them that actually makes them taste nice! :wub:
Soup or roasted is how I've tried & liked them. Not keen on the after effects though, not very ladylike & conducive to visiting peoples houses. :wacko: :wacko: :lol:
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Half a dozen huge parsnips. Some smallish leeks. A couple of small Savoy cabbage. A few sprout tops, no sprouts ever having appeared! The rotten pigeons ate the Cavolo Nero though. My fingers nerly got frostbite though, it was snowing.
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about a kilo of jerusalem artichokes. need to try to do something with them that actually makes them taste nice! :wub:
Soup or roasted is how I've tried & liked them. Not keen on the after effects though, not very ladylike & conducive to visiting peoples houses. :wacko: :wacko: :lol:
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Will get you a double seat to yourself on the bus or train tho. ;) ::)
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About a ton of mud and a few parsnips :blink:
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A couple of small cabbages for coleslaw for tea
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More parsnips, they are putting on new growth now so need to eat them quick.
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5 little sticks of rhubarb just enough for my Tea :D and it has not been forced :)
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Leeks for soup tomorrow :)
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A cabbage, some leeks and some kale :) Plus a few aches and pains as have been digging in compost :lol:
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Celeriac, swede, beetroot, a few overlooked spring onions and some leeks.
I can feel a soup coming on.
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a few leeks ,kale ,brussels and parsnips as they are trying to sprout again ...
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brussels, leeks and spinach
having some lovely desiree stored in the shed, make some great roasts for tonights dinner
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Leeks, chard and some kale. Swapped leeks for some carrots with a fellow plotholder too!
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PSB, red cabbage x3 and a dozen carrots that I had to remove to dig their old bed over. :)
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4 cabbages , 2 parnips ,some kale and spinach leaves.
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The last of my parsnips.
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Dug up a couple of leeks, spinach, baby carrots
and a big bunch of parsley for some parsley sauce
Had to hack a bit in the frozen ground
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A cabbage and the last of the leeks. PSB and kale still to come :)
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Winter mix salad leaves.
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Some cabbage leaves ,kale and spinach .
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Picked a load of spinach from my Dad up the road, from the spinach plants I donated to him last year. He doesn't pick it often enough.
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More leeks and chard.
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Leeks that went straight into soup and also leek and bacon lasagne.
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second picking of rhubarb but its only me :)
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Parsnips and leeks.
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Leeks, kale, jerusalem artichokes and beetroot
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One chilli from my overwintered plant. One other chilli still growing.
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PSB :D
and spinach beet!
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lots of leek, will eat some fresh and have to freeze the rest to make room on the lottie.
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Ditto lottieheaven.
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Pulled up a few frozen leeks for a soup, but still have plenty for picking, but will have to start freezing them soon i expect, but leaving in the ground for now.
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cut and come again leaves with salad :)
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Leeks, beetroot, parsnip, jerusulem artichoke, rhubarb and daffodils
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We have a little kale left about 3 swede and some leeks (very thin). Should we dig up the leeks now? Quite new at this.
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Missed your post Teapot ;) Yes - harvest your leeks as they will start flowering and going to seed once it warms up :)
Slim pickings here as well, but at least there is something. The second to last January King cabbage and the last few mustard greens. Signs of hope though with the first pick of PSB, Sutherland kale and a few perpetual spinach leaves :D
Got a lovely bunch of daffs to bring home as well :)
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Nice harvest thanks to the couple of warmer days last week at the plot:
(http://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y449/allotmentglutton/WP_000077_zps5836c7f7.jpg)
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We had our very last parsnip that we had stored, nothing left now, bring on the summer.
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Just picked leeks, spinach, baby carrots and lettuce from the greenhouse
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one lonely little parsnip that I found when digging the bean trench today!
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The last of the leeks :(
Plenty chopped up and in the freezer though, so will be eating them for a bit yet.
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Took the first bit of rhubarb today. Luvverly.
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Loads of psb and chard.
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4 radishes....more ready :)
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Two lots of asparagus this week yum yum, just must not pick to much as it's our first year of picking. :)
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Enough purple sprouting broccoli for one family serving. Which is very welcome.
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Someone else harvested a large bunch of sorrel from my plot yesterday. Made me so angry when I realised!
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I so want to be able to contribute to this thread but as I'm new to growing veg it's going to be a while. However, my husband and I had a rocket leaf each yesterday and it was delicious (hardly lunch and please don't laugh but it is a start!) :wub:
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Anything harvested can be counted Caroline ;) :)
Spinach (perpetual) is all I've got ready to pick - and that was overwintered!! :D
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Had my first radish yesterday about 1cm round so worth it
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Another picking of PSB,then we didn't have it for dinner :mad: as there was a change of plan :wacko: again.
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Picked my first beetroot and spring onions today, went down a treat for tea. :lol:
Mike.
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More PSB. Still going strong despite not ever getting very tall this year.
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Yesterday:
Rocket and pea shoots for my salad! :happy:
I reckon there may be a radish ready soon.
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Yesterday
7 stalks of rhubarb
And a lettuce
Today
Another lettuce and one sad little beetroot, the rest are miles behind but this one had grown to a nice size.
Will need to take more rhubarb before my rhubarb becomes bigger than me, no idea what it's been near or eating but it's massive :unsure:
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Today I harvested fat leeks, spinach and mixed leaves, oh and basil off the window ledge :D
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8 sticks of rhubarb and some PSB
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Oh my another 11 rhubarb stalks, the jam maker is out of the cupboard and ready to go. Rhubarb jam anyone.
It's not done anything to dent the mighty beast :ohmy:
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Our first harvest from our first allotment - 20 radishes!
What does one do with 20 radishes?
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Our first harvest from our first allotment - 20 radishes!
What does one do with 20 radishes?
Radish soup, followed by radish salad followed by radish ice-cream. No idea if anyone has ever made those dishes but I bet Heston could :lol:
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radish is nice and crunchy in stir fries!
I am drowning in a sea of rhubarb...have made jam, cake, crumble and rhubabar infused vodka :tongue2:
Today have picked beetroot, leeks and curly kale.
and ONE whole spear of asparagus. Three years I have waited for this .... :ohmy:
Baby spinach is maybe one week away!
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Another lettuce today yummy yummy yummy
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A few baby leeks from the back garden that newer grew much, a fist full of asparagus and a handful of Kent Blue mangetout from the greenhouse.
Will top those off with a green garlic sauce from garlic I must have missed last year that I found whilst clearing the weeds this morning.
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Massive amount of rhubarb with metre long sticks
Another huge bunch of asparagus
Two round headed cabbages
Two cauliflowers two inches across -- when I was in the supermarket saw these wold have cost me £2.00 :lol: :lol:
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Massive amount of rhubarb with metre long sticks
Another huge bunch of asparagus
Two round headed cabbages
Two cauliflowers two inches across -- when I was in the supermarket saw these wold have cost me £2.00 :lol: :lol:
Rhubarb seems to be doing well, I keep attacking ours and the next day it's back to the same size. :wacko: haven't fed it or anything it's on a mission to take over the planet
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Another eight rhubarb stalks making 32 so far this season, and it's still nearly as high as me. ???
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My first harvest for 2013 :D 11 radishes!
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A handful of micro salad leaves & tiny tiny radishes for tea.
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Pulled up my last leek. Picked a few spring cabbage, a load of lettuce and having a bumper pick of rhubarb.
Just started on my Desiree potatoes from last years crop in the shed, now Ive eaten the other varieties.
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Aother lettuce lol a lettuce a day keeps the doctor at bay. :lol:
We are slightly over run with them actually
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More rhubarb and a bunch of coriander for tonight's curry :)
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Spinach for tea :)
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8 sticks of rhubarb and PSB
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Yesterday, I harvested 2 caulis, the last of the psb, a bunch of spring greens, loads of red and white chard and a lettuce.
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Plenty of lettuce and baby carrots
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23 stalks of rhubarb and another lettuce. Lol rhubarb in pan now ready for rhubarb chutney
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Did anyone harvest something today? It can't have been terrible weather everywhere, can it?
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Just more radishes. Now the size of tomatoes, and I don't mean cherry type. How strange. Last year I could not grow them as they all went to seed. This year they are superb.
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A lettuce! :D
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More giant rhubarb and loads of PSB.
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A lettuce! :D
Same here too
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Some (unintentionally) over-wintered spring onions.
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Strawberrys for tea :)
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Another three lettuce lol chris forgot he'd already taken one so took more as they are starting to go over.
Dad took one, rest in fridge
Three sticks of rhubarb for a friend, they were huge
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A dozen or so massive rhubarb sticks to turn into rhubarb, ginger and chilli chutney :)
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A few green leaves from overwintered onions for adding to dinner tonight.
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More strawberrys to go with the cream - for tea :)
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Some rhubarb and a overwintered Pixie cabbage.
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Picked a lot of radish and lettuce
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Just had my first picking of watercress grown in a trough.of compost. Saw an article in a mag. about it. Having spent my childhood living near the river Test where we picked it wild, can not bring myself to pay £1.25 for a small bunch. After reading the article gritted my teeth and bought a bunch, placed a dozen stalks in a glass of water to root, and ate the rest. When rooted planted it in a deep compost filled trough, kept WELL watered and six weeks later first pick for todays lunch.
Bish
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More rhubarb, a few lollo rosso leaves and a huge radish :D
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More PSB.
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2 lettuces - 1 red 'Marshall' Cos and 1 'Quatro Stagioni' and my first strawberry!! :happy:
Delish it was too ;)
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Picked a colander full of turnip tops yesterday
Today just picked Lettuce, spring cabbage and a pile of mint to go with the roast lamb today
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Mixed salad leaves and two more lettuce.
Forgot the rhubarb
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The first of our hilds roter neckarruhm radish - they were absolutely delicious :D
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12 leeks the last ones from last year
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8lbs of rhubarb - kept planting it and it kept dying so I planted 6 and they all thrived :blink:, a cauliflower, and horseradish leaves (going to try them shredded and steamed).
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A great big bunch of asparagus & a goodly helping of the Kent Blue mangetout.
Went down a treat, steamed.
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Pak Choi AND I got it before the slugs or flea beetle! :)
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Pak choi and a couple of lovely lettuces for lunch tomorrow!
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Lettuce :D
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cut some lovely spinacy yday- Fiorano F1 & Perpetual Spinach
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Harvested mixed lettuce leaves, pak choi and some radishes.
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Dug up some green onions and onions gone to seed.
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Last of the winter cauliflower, spring cabbage and first picking of Onward peas from the poly tunnel
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Would have been lettuce - if I'd remembered to pick it! :lol:
My salad for tea was lettuce-less. ::)
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The first Setton onion of last Autumn's planting. Coriander and parsley as always, and cut lettuce leaves.
I can't wait for the first broad bean at the weekend, maybe middle of next week.
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Lettuce x 3 :D
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4lb lovely beetroot :happy:
Didnt have a spare hand for lettuce
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Rhubarb, lettuce, spring onions and radish
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Yesterday we had our first ever harvest :D just some lettuce and salad leaves but it tasted great - 10 times better than what we used to buy from the shop. Very pleased.
Jim
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Mint yesterday a huge bundle full and today more lettuce :blink:
Lettuce lettuce everywhere :D
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Mixed salad leaves and spring onions - added lots of flavour to my salad.
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First ever harvest - beetroot, salad leaves, rhubarb and onions yippee :lol:
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Yesterday,2 courgetts,strawberries,mangetout,sugar snaps and some spring onions. All from tunnel.
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my broccoli and spinach are just finishing and the ow broad beans and onions will be about 2 weeks. Just used the last forzen parsnips and carrots.
What is everone else eating? ideas for next year please. Had Good King Henry, campanula and sorrell leaves for dinner. I guess it doesn't help every thing is so far behind early peas all died. I haven't got a proper grren house just a plastic thing.
Should I just hope for a glut and dehydrate the spare.
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rhubarb!!! flower stalks from the onions, chopped up.
radish
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Rhubarb, lettuce, beetroot, waiting for peas and broad beans
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PSB, Golden Chard, last of Tuscan Kale, rhubarb.
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For tea today I pulled leeks, a couple of Hispi cabbages, sage leaves. Been eating loads of various lettuces, beetroot leaves, rocket, spring onions, sorrel, various oriental leaves, beetroot :D, flat leaf parsley, radishes, thyme, mini cucumbers
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Two small Milan Purple Top Turnips
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Micro herbs, asparagus, peas, lettuce, radish, carrots, spuds (just), beetroot, rhubarb, strawberrys, lots of courgettes, cobra beans and the cucumbers will be next.
Totty
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lollo rosso lettuce, radish and spring onions.
Again :D
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lettuce and assorted salad leaves, spring onions, radishes, potatoes, rhubarb, strawberries...but not all on the same plate!
first carrots almost ready for pulling and pea pods starting to swell. Nature has a way of catching up.
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Pak Choi. Nothing else is ready yet.
The kale looks like it might be ready within the next month, as will the early potatoes. Everything still seems to be taking forever and a day to get to a decent size.
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PSB and rhubarb. Loveage and Sage are going great guns too.
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Psb second flush/lettuce/basil/parsley/chard & radishes :)
and snails :tongue2: lots of snails. They go in the beer bucket unless anyone knows a french resturant...
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Lettuce, radishes and almost spinach and chard. Potatoes in about 2 wks+-
Question - Madame Cholet, how are you getting your onions so early? Are you growing them in a greenhouse? Did you plant sets and, if so, when? There's no way mine will be ready in two weeks . But I'm happy for what I have now :tongue2:
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Salad leaves, beetroot, rhubarb and onions which were an over wintering set that I'd lost and then found after buying a new set so planted them in my greenhouse they were ready last week :D might do it again this year
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Not much ::) Chard and overwintered greens all eaten or bolted now and the May hungry gap is stretching on due to the cold start to spring.
Some oriental greens to eat, asparagus until the last week or so - now letting it make its ferns for next year, some overwintered onions as giant spring onions and I think there may be lettuce ready on the plot. I am hoping my caulies bulk up, but have been warned they go over fast, so possibly mini caulies later on today as well :)
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lots and lots of spinach
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Got chard coming out of our ears, lots of rhubarb, first strawberries, radishes.
Dwarf and broad beans are nearly ready, but everything else is incredibly late...
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First 2 courgettes, couple of strawberries....
Will have a furtle around at the Pentland Javelin later.....
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More rhubarb and some salad leaves.
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Rhubarb, last off!
First new potatoes, Dunluce small but tasty "AND" one strawberry, sweet and got there before the resident blackbird!
Everything has been hard to germinate and grow on this season!
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First proper harvest of the season, broad beans, carrots, radish & salad leaves. :D
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Loads of radish, going to try the radish relish recipe that's on here, and one Clove of garlic just to see if it was big enough......it wasn't!
Mrsw
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Huge chard leaves, first of the spinach, self seeded lettuce, shallots because I couldn't help myself even though they weren't ready and used them as a kind of spring onion.
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some lovely spinach
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That spinach looks amazing.
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More spring onions and salad leaves for with to-night's dinner. :)
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J_B, your spinach is amazing!
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A small bowl of new potatoes (Orla First Earlies) - I couldn't resist digging up one plant and seeing what I had.
My first harvest...ever!
And they were lush.
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Lettuce again !!!!
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Lettuce again !!!!
Same here :D
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I got 2 little courgettes, first of the year !! YAY
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I got 2 little courgettes, first of the year !! YAY
I dont think we will get courgettes till next month at this rate, sick of paying shop prices for them too. :D your really lucky are they outside
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8 sticks of rhubarb
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2 1/2 lb beetroot, another bowl of lettuce and our first two strawberries which florence ate. Its her first ever taste of strawberry ( bit unsure but she tried)
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Broad beans have started. Coriander, lettuce, beetroot and success !! CARROTFLY FREE carrots from the greenhouse :D
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How have you all managed to get so much already? Everything in my garden is taking forever to grow.
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Unblemished radishes. :)
Pak Choi
Nearly some strawberries (but then I decided they needed another day).
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Salad leaves and more spring onions, thyme, parsley and rosemary for favouring a stew.
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yesterday, some baby carrots, oregano, basil
today, radish, the first turnip of the year and loads of lettuce
a few sticks of rhubarb
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massive spring onions (that were left by accident over winter) and rhubarb, and lettuce. Nice to be getting my own stuff again.
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Radish , strawberries and some more rhubarb
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Radish , strawberries and some more rhubarb
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Pulled four rhubarb stalks that were huge we are talking bigger width than florences arm and the same height as she is. Now i know shes only just coming up two but they made me blink just looking at them. :wub:
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First cucumber I've ever grown :) (http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/7937/pmcq.jpg)
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First cucumber I've ever grown :) (http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/7937/pmcq.jpg)
Congrats! It's a lovely feeling. :)
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First cucumber I've ever grown :) (http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/7937/pmcq.jpg)
Congrats! It's a lovely feeling. :)
Thanks, and it is. It has far exceeded my expectations, I never thought I'd crave cucumber!
The idea of nibbling on a bit of cucumber as a snack would have never appealed to me in the past, the thought of it being so watery and tasteless is sickly. Yet I'm trying to avoid finishing this one off so my vegan sister can have the last bit, it's so bizarre and amazing how different it is from shop bought ones.
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Pak Choi
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While waiting yesterday for hubby and florence to get home i popped up and pulled five beautiful turnips. On the way out one of the old boys stopped and admired them, he was very impressed as they were like something out of a magazine. :D turnip mash was had for tea and rather yummy it was too
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Four radish and two lettuce
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Hispi cabbage, little gem lettuce, lollo rosso, misuna, rocket, radish cherrybelle, a small red onion, 2 small beetroot and some rhubarb.
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Some mixed salad leaves...the first thing we've harvested! :D
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Rather than throw last years soil and leave the pots empty all winter I mixed in some onion feed, threw some onions in and left them to it. I needed the containers to pot on some chillies today so pulled the onions and gave them a good clean.
So today's harvest are some stunted looking onions (http://imageshack.us/a/img195/3051/u2tr.jpg), but for re-purposed potting mix during the unproductive cold season they're ok. Will go in some meals over the next couple of days.
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My first ever Calabrese :D. Mind you, it was very small as the plant is bolting :wub: still, although it did not make a meal, it tasted fantastic :D :happy:
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About 1kg of strawberries ,4 radish and 10 sticks of rhubarb
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Today's haul from the plot: 2nd batch of strawberries, Charlotte Spuds from the greenhouse (disappointed) and the thinnings from the carrots and parsnips.
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Today's haul from the plot: 2nd batch of strawberries, Charlotte Spuds from the greenhouse (disappointed) and the thinnings from the carrots and parsnips.
Hi Herb,
I'm in South Yorkshire and I'm nowhere near pulling up carrot thinnings, especially that are big enough to eat. When did you plant your carrots out?
Also, either you are incredibly 'green-fingered' or are you growing your strawberries in a greenhouse/polytunnel too? I'm nowhere near contemplating eating my strawberries yet. :(
Good for you though, whatever you are doing is obviously working :)
Char
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Two lettuce, four strawberries and ten sticks of rhubarb, they have just come home with hubby.
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Hi Herb,
I'm in South Yorkshire and I'm nowhere near pulling up carrot thinnings, especially that are big enough to eat. When did you plant your carrots out?
Also, either you are incredibly 'green-fingered' or are you growing your strawberries in a greenhouse/polytunnel too? I'm nowhere near contemplating eating my strawberries yet. :(
Good for you though, whatever you are doing is obviously working :)
Char
Greenfingers - first time I've been accused of that! No, I think two things help me in this:
I've been sowing a row of carrots every month since March - the first lot were under some perspex that fits over my small raised beds.
My plot is on a south(ish) facing hill, whilst it's windy in the winter, its a right suntrap in the summer.
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I had 6 strawberries, some new spuds, and 2 onions yesterday. Oh and 2 courgettes.....
Mange tout tomorrow ;)
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New potatoes (foremost); Salad leaves; little gem lettuce and radishes. :)
OK if you like salad dinners! :lol:
I'm impressed with those who are harvesting strawbs, mange tout and corgettes. Mine have a way to go yet!
My mange tout are about 6ft high and only just starting to flower. I thought they would be a lower growth height than they peas, but I got that wrong! They're bursting through the netting!!
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I've eaten two strawbs off the plot, today and yesterday :D Today's pickings Hispi cabbages for tea. Lovely they were too
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Salad leaves for lunch & dinner & loads of radish for dinner.
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My first strawberry of the season with the sight of many more to come. :D :D :D
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Another 1kg+ of strawberries,radish ,rhubarb,lettuce and rocket
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Greenfingers - first time I've been accused of that! No, I think two things help me in this:
I've been sowing a row of carrots every month since March - the first lot were under some perspex that fits over my small raised beds.
My plot is on a south(ish) facing hill, whilst it's windy in the winter, its a right suntrap in the summer.
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Wow! You are very green-fingered (I hope that's not an insult...I'm from Canada originally so my terminology may be a bit different than everyone else's in Yorkshire). Anyway, nice work, when can I come over for tea? :) Or maybe I just need to grow my own, eh?
Charleen
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My first proper haul this year - broad beans, chard flowers (tasty!!), radishes, a couple of french beans and some strawberries that didn't make it off the plot...
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6 onions, large handful of radish, plenty of red and green lettuce, a couple of pak choi and the first of the mange tout
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Hubby popped up to pick 56 strawberries, 9 turnips, 3 beetroot, 8 stalks of rhubarb and the last of the lettuce for now. :D
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A nice bunch of salad leaves here :)
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Here's a few of the radishes I've picked in the last week,still plenty to go at.
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Iceberg lettuce. Radishes. Spring onions. Made a nice salad chopped up with some homemade dill mustard and a splash of red wine vinegar so it did.
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Some (way too) Early Carrots! I was so excited to see some orange I just had to pull a few :-)
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More salad crops, little gem lettuce, lollo rosso, rocket, onions and radish. Also 4 baby turnips. Just wish the rest of the crops would get a move on.
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A huge bunch of radishes, some (bolting) green broccoli and my first 4 sweetpeas of the year :D
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3 kgs of strawberries, radishs ,lettuce and rhubarb
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Leeks for tonight. Spring onions for lunch..baby carrots for tonight
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4lb of strawberries.
That makes 10lb this week. Feel like I should do something with them rather than just eat them!
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2 strawberries and 3lb of Rocket spuds (wasn't sure if they were Rocket or Charlotte ::)). Still, for 3 tubers I'm happy, considering they were pulled so early. :D
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More salad leaves lol - I will get something else soon I swear (seams all we have had is salad leaves and rhubarb)
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a few turnips, load of salad leaves, radish.
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Some rhubarb 2kg of strawberries,a lettuce and two radish
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New spuds. Broad beans. Mint for the sauce. Lettuce. Radishes. Spring onions.
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The first of the broad beans (well, 5 pods :D ), lollo rosso, little gem, salad bowl lettuce, spring onions, huge radish, oriental mustard leaves and some chive flowers to sprinkle on the salad :)
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20 sticks of rhubarb
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In addition to the above: garlic scapes. Never had them before. Just tried one and they are fantastic. I now need to sort some recipes or freeze them before they go over.
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About 4 pounds of new potatoes, 1 courgette, 20 mange tout, 8 strawberries, and a spring cabbage!
BOOM :)
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A courgette :) a few Lady C spuds and a bowl of salad leaves, mangetout not quite ready so I was disappointed ::)
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I harvested some Shiraz and Kent Blue mange tout plus the first three courgettes. I think I will hold off harvesting the potatoes until the children are with me.
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Pentland Javelin potatoes, autumn calebrese, purple top milan turnips, garlic and strawberries.
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I am hoping nothing is ready as hubby is useless at harvesting, if it doesnt jump up and smack him with a two by four he doesnt think its ready. :lol:
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Another few kgs of strawberries,radish,lettuce,rhubarb and six new potatoes
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3lb of grendels favourite ;)
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A handful of strawberries, lots of salad leaves, pak choi, radish, mangetout and the first broad bean
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Another 3lb of strawberries.
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Loads of lettuce/salad/radish, spinach, Swiss chard, more Orla and some Red Duke of York potatoes. Humble but yummy! :)
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The first two courgettes.
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The first two courgettes.
Jealous :(
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The first two courgettes.
Jealous :(
They're from the Cavilli, one of the not requiring pollinating varieties we've tried this year. Noted elsewhere, none of the Parthenon - the other not requiring pollinating variety we tried - germinated.
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A lettuce, 6 radish and a handful of strawberries
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Pulled up the last of the onions I planted in containers last Autumn.
I think there is some pickling to be done.
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First of the broad beans (ones I planted in March, the overwintered ones didn't survive); radishes; lettuces; swiss chard; mange-tout peas; slender stem broccoli; strawberries; & 5 red currants
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just strawberrys at the mo but going to need a bigger wheelie for my broad beans soon
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Another 1lb of strawberries last night
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Spring onions and salad leaves which livened up a salad.
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8 sticks of rhubarb, 2lb strawberries, 7 turnips and 5 beetroots
Peas are almost there. :lol:
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got impatient with my garlic its not quite ready but lifted two bulbs wanted them soft to make a paste ..very nice but now its worse cos i want to get at the others but know i mustn't :happy:
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5 strawberries (hey, it's better than last year! ;) ), spinach, chard, lettuce/salad and tonight will be new potatoes! :lol:
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Lots of golden globe and chioggia beetroots
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Some new potatoes, a couple of turnips, an onion, a cauliflower, little gem lettuce, lollo rosso, rocket, radish, 6 sticks of rhubarb and a punnet of strawberries.
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another 7 strawbs got a feeling alot of mine is going to be ready all at the same time
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Nearly enough strawberries for a pavlova or eton mess at the weekend. A few more should turn in by Sunday. These were from wall baskets in the back garden.
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a colander full of strawberries and my first PSP, and some sweet peas.
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2 Summer Cabbages "Premiere" (bit early to have cut, I'm guessing by their size ::))
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More spinach and my first two onions of the year! :D
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Broad beans, lettuce, rocket and 6 strawberries. Black currants nearly there, kind of brown currants at the moment!
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BROAD BEANS! Finally! Man it has been slow this year :mad:
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Some lovely ruby chard, purple and green broccoli (because some are bolting), 2 onions and some salvias and sweetpeas from the cutting patch.
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Found a nearly black blackcurrant and couldn't resist. My first ever home grown currant! I think I'll wait a bit for the rest, it was very tasty but seriously sharp and crunchy!
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5lb strawberries and ran out of pots so hubby has gone back as i think we could double that amount. :blink:
4oz alpines
8 turnips
And the first of the peas, daughter is now sat podding as punishment for eating a fair few while picking. May not end up with many left to cook. ::)
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We picked a few gooseberry thinnings which I will use for a sauce for Eton Mess tomorrow. We also picked a whole load of herbs which I chopped up and used for a herb crust on salmon tonight, served with Red Duke of York new potatoes and the Shiraz mange tout harvested today (yum).
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Lettuce ,radish, 6 new potatoes ,and 10kg of strawberries
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5lb strawberries and ran out of pots so hubby has gone back as i think we could double that amount. :blink:
4oz alpines
8 turnips
And the first of the peas, daughter is now sat podding as punishment for eating a fair few while picking. May not end up with many left to cook. ::)
A further 6lb of strawberries thats 11lb today :blink:
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Lettuce and broad beans and a few strawberries.
Not far from my first courgette either :D
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Lettuce, turnips and first peas of the year
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Cauliflower, peas, lettuce, radish, rocket, potatoes, onions, carrots and strawberries.
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Ten more beetroot, one raspberry, forgot to check peas. :(
Couldnt face picking strawberries today i am still trying to plough though yesterdays :ohmy:
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spring onions, lettuce, beetroot for my salad...onion for mrs w stir fry..weve also got a cauli ready...our first ever...must be just over a inch in diameter :lol: :D
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Forgot my walking stick sized stalks of rhubarb x 6, one stalk weighed in at 1lb 1/2 :ohmy:
Now in the jam pan :lol:
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Dozen Milano turnips but not sure what to do with them, hand full of beetroot, second carrier bag of over wintered broad beans (the Sutton), radishes and handful of peas (onwards). Worth all the back ache, frozen hands, wet feet, runny noses!
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picked my second calabrese head yesterday,7 inches across and getting bigger,really great crop of this russion brocalli,also the caulis are looking good,an peas are well podded just need to fatten up,,
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Yesterday for tea we had a goodly amount of Charlotte spuds. I have grown them as 2nd Earlies but my 1st Earlies are way behind so I though I would give the Charlottes a go.
They had only been in 12 weeks but were the size of large Hen eggs and tasted lovely. Not quite the New Spud taste that we all crave but close to it.
They way they are growing I am expecting to harvest my PJ 1st Earlies around October :mad:
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A good handful of salad leaves, 5 raspberries, 1 strawberry, 2 white radish, 1 red radish, a couple of peas and a very small hand full of new potatoes from a 'volunteer plant'.
Quite happy with my first 'real' harvest :)
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My first courgette of the year - one better than last year when my plants all turned up their toes. (And some salad leaves and spring onions.) :D
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Yesterday for lunch, I made tabouleh salad with most of the ingredients coming from the garden (lettuce, flat-leaf parsley, curly parsley, mint, spring onions). Only the bulgur wheat and tomatoes cames from the shop :)
Also, one alpine strawberry each for our 2 girls!
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First mini cuke, and six large strawberries.
Bish
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Punnet of strawberries. artichokes, webbs wonderful lettuce, cos lettuce.
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2 small bowls of strawberries,1 from each of the plot & greenhouse.
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Dug some more Charlotte 2nd Earlies up as 1st Earlies today & they were delicious. Mrs FB said they were the best 'New Pots' she had tasted so far this year.
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Oh my god, hubby has just come in with another 6lb strawberries :blink:
What the heck am i going to do, hes only picked one bed out of five :blink:
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9.6 oz strawberries - biggest harvest so far.
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Strawberries, lettuce and I had a first furtle into one of my potato bags and got a nice amount of 'Belle de Fontaney' new potatoes :D
8 more bags of spuds and 2 beds to go. ;)
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First of the spuds, at last!! :D
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_5kgs of strawberries, lettuce ,radish, bowl of redcurrants,, and10 new potatoes.
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3lb red duke of york. Bit pathetic but it was one bins worth.
3 small onions, i needed some so they were sacrificed early
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Our first ever new potatoes (Charlotte) :D, beetroot, Swiss chard, Calabrese and the first courgette of the season :)
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So far I've dig up half the Premier spuds (these are lovely) and all the Pentland Javelin. I'm a little disappointed on yield but I didn't manure the soil over winter or feed the plants at all and there is only 15inch soil before you hit old foundations where they were growing so I really can't complain!
Today I picked 4 courgettes, a bag of sugar snap peas, another kg of strawberries, 3 nice size onions and my first garlic :) very proud
I then went into tesco where loads of fresh stuff asparagus, sugar snaps, sprouts had been reduce to 30p! which made all my hard work seem pathetic! but I horded as much as I could and feel quite proud of my 3 bags of shopping for under £10 even just to say fu trasco
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first tayberries :D
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4 lb strawberries and half a pound of peas.
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Took the girls up to grab a few bits 8 rhubarb stalks, 60 pea pods, 8 turnips and another 2lb strawberries. Will have to go again tonight As florence decided she had had enough and started pulling off bits that were not ready at all. All i the name of " HELPING" apparently. :lol:
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biggest picking is today.....20 x 7 to 8 inch brocolli heads,,well pleased
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My first cucumber - not very big but it was partly laying on the soil of the GH and I did not want it to be nibbled at (except by me) and very nice it was. :) The usual salad leaves and spring onions - this years spring onions are amazing - growing like weeds. :)
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This evenings harvest, daughter is now weighing it all because we are sad like that hehe
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2 large courgettes,one promptly eaten for tea. yum.
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Another 10lb of strawbs!
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Frirst strawberry only one, but lots coming along, nothing else near ready,
Amazed at difference across country.
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1 lettuce, 7.5oz of Strawberries and the first courgette of the season.... yet somehow I know we are only a few weeks away of being bored to tears of them and giving them away to anyone who will take them.
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The first mangetout :nowink:
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The courgettes have started AT LAST.
Hubby sent me a picture text, well it was dusk ( it better be a courgette) :wacko: :unsure: just waiting for it, they to arrive home. :blink:
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Strawberries and salads, although one punnet of strawberries didn't make it home!! ;)
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15 raspberries
2 courgettes
12 beetroot
5 broad bean pods
1 and 1/2lb strawberries
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Calabrese and PSB, new potatoes and some beautiful flowers from my cutting patch. Everything on the plot is loving this sunshine 8)
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Spinach, chard, a few strawberries, potatoes, kale and lettuce. What's PSB?
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Spinach, chard, a few strawberries, potatoes, kale and lettuce. What's PSB?
Purple sprouting broccolli. ( cant decide how to spell it but that doesnt look right) :wacko:
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Dug up some new potatoes, picked some peas, raspberries, radish and strawberries.
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1 1/2lb strawberries
105 pea pods
8 beetroot
5 turnips
1lb gooseberries
2lb blackcurrants
DD gave up picking blackcurrants bless her she forgot to take a fork. :D
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1 1/2 lbs French beans from tunnel :D first of the year
3 yellow courgette
4 green courgette
4 lb cauliflower in freezer now
3 lb broccoli in freezer
1 1/2 lb mange tout
Bunch of carrots
1 kohl rabi
1 cucumber
Bunch garlic
3 onions
Going back for fruit tomorrow,picked to much today.
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3 courgettes. 1/2lb strawberries and some mint to go in the Pimms!
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A bit late, but yesterday from the plot-
a huge bag of lettuce leaves for our 30+ bbq today with added beetroot leaves,a few strawberries,1st pick of gooseberries & redcurrants.
From the garden-salad leaves for tea,a tiny carrot to check progress but tasted delicious,mint for new potatoes & various other herbs for various marinades for today's bbq
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Ooooh - I can add to this! More new potatoes (at least a kilo) and strawberries for Pimms and lemonade :-) and I dug up some shallots yesterday too - how jolly exciting :-)
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Seven courgettes and another two pound of strawberries, that wont be all today but it was too hot for me already after weeding
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More strawberries, early pots, lettuces all taken home today!! :)
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Two courgettes (will be added to this evenings dinner) and a couple of cukes (will probably just be eaten as snacks), more salad leaves and spring onions.
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My first proper harvest ever and it was new potatoes, 4 red onions, spinach and a few broad beans. Very hapoy today :D
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2 1/2 lbs of strawberries,24 raspberries and a bunch red currants.pulled up some rocket potatoes and herbs to go with them for dinner.
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Just a quick visit today to harvest 2 green and 1 yellow courgettes
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After the Andy Murray show I ambled down to the allotment and got
Hipsi cabbage
Iceberg lettuce
loads of strawberries (still not great taste)
Dunluce potatoes
French beans
Oregon Sugar pea pods
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First bowl of strawberries (and one or two that didnt quite make it home...) :)
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2 lettuce
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a few onions, courgette and lots of sugar snap peas tonight - a night off from harvesting strawberries
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Another 3 lb of strawberries last night ::) on top of the 2lb yesterday morning :wacko:
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I think you should be Strawberry Queen not Beetroot Queen :lol:
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I think you should be Strawberry Queen not Beetroot Queen :lol:
I am getting a bit sick of them now 41lb so far and they just are not slowing down :ohmy:
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How many plats do you have BQ over what area?
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How many plats do you have BQ over what area?
We have five beds, 8x3. Two beds this year so not producing loads and small fruits, two beds on the last year (planted ealy 2009) and one bed plantd in 2010.
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2lb straws yesterday, 1lb this morning along with a greyhound cabbage, french beans , carrots and perpetual spinach for eggs benedict for lunch.
Bish
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A punnet of strawberries, lots of gooseberries, some calebrese, an onion, loads of potatoes, peas, broad beans, beetroot, turnips and cabbage.
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Some onions and shallots, broccoli and new potatoes plus a bucketful of flowers :D
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Some more onions going over with white rot, to be frozen :(
A large icecream tub of peas and some spring onions and salad leaves for tea :)
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Another cucumber - really doing well now - taking over the greenhouse like triffids. :)
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picked rasps, straws and a cucumber.
556g or 1lb 3.6123oz of strawberries :)
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My first yellow One Ball courgettes of the season, a "normal" courgettes, some huge spring onions, lots of strawberries, a few raspberries, broad beans and some Mangetout.
No more veg shopping for a while. :)
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Special offer!
Cucino cucumbers, 6 for the price of 4:
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He just has to show off :lol:
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4 1/2 lb strawberries
2 beetroot
4 turnips
5 courgettes
3lb potatoes
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Big harvest today. Large trug of broad beans, tub of mange tout, large tub of strawberries, 8 assorted beetroot, armfuls of sweet peas, three lettuces, 8 baby carrots and 5 courgettes.
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1 cauliflower,
Lots of broad beans
2 courgettes
Brocolli
That was just to give to one of the girls in work as I am away for the next week. The peas and strawberries that ripen every day just get eaten in the garden by myself and my son so can't really quantify how much of them we have picked at this stage.
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Punnet of strawberries
2 beetroot
3 lettuce
20 or so lady c
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Red frilly lettuce, 12 radishes, 4 beetroots, 2 courgettes and about 40 broad bean pods. Everything has gone nuts the past couple of days with plenty more to pick from as I need it - no more getting ripped off at the supermarket for a few months on the veg! :D
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Two more cucumbers, spring onions and salad leaves. :)
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first "proper" harvest of the year after picking odds and sods for the last few weeks. A kilo of new potatoes, 4 courgettes, a mini cucumber, lettuce and half a pound of strawberries.
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I am absolutely delighted to say only 3/4 lb of strawberries, thank god for that i dread them bring them home after the glut we have had.
3 courgettes
150 pea pods
4lb blackcurrants :blink:
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Strawberries; Red Currants; 4 courgettes; Lettuce; Cucumber; few raspberries.
I think our strawberries are about over now - 10 days from start to finish
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Lettuce, broad beans and a small but perfectly formed cucumber off one of my grafted plants. :)
Oh and 5 massive courgettes!! :D
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3 heads of broccoli
1lb french beans
1 kohl rabi
first bunch of runner beans (normally only get them in August)
2 courgettes
1 mini cucumber
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The first green globe artichoke flowers of the season - 4 big enough to pick. :)
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Garlic harvest. I grew, in order of success: Provence Wight, Lautrec Wight and Solent Wight. Here is a pic of the Provence Wight crop. Also the first of the Ulster Classic spuds and a couple of portions of strawberries.
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Loads of Belle de Fontaney potatoes, loads of broad beans and another courgette and some lettuce.
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A couple of courgettes, handful of strawberries and I pulled 1 garlic to see what size it is. (Some have rust, so not convinced they are going to grow anymore)
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Loads of lettuce, plenty of broad beans and 2 red onions.
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New potatoes carrots mange tout and onions for dinner.another picking of beetroot
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A pound of blackcurrents and a courgette (yes just one!)
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More strawbs, a courgette, few lbs of potatoes, a couple of heads of calabrese, some mange tout and another armful of sweet peas!
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A load of perp spinach, a courgette, a load of peas, a load of lettuce, a couple of strawberries, 2 garlics, 2 red onions and 3 spring onions!
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Five courgettes last night he didnt check anything else ::)
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Lettuce, broad beans, beetroot and strawberries
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Accidentally harvested a cucumber while checking its size and it fell right off, hope the heat isn't encouraging the plants to do that :unsure:
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Spuds and strawberries from our garden. Unfortunately, the lady next door passed away quite suddenly at Christmas :( and she loved her garden, anyhoo, talking to her son t'other day, he told me to jump over and take some rhubarb and strawbs, ended up with a lot of jurassic size rhubarb stems, like huuuuge, and a couple pound of strawberries :)
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Gooseberries, blackcurrants, rhubarb, broad beans and two strawberries.
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Not going to get fat on my broad bean harvest am I ! Im going to need to have a rethink about things as frankly this is getting silly now.
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Not going to get fat on my broad bean harvest am I ! Im going to need to have a rethink about things as frankly this is getting silly now.
Same sort of harvest we had, more pods to come but i dont hold out any hope with the constant blackfly.
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First proper strawberry picking of the year, 1.5lb picked and scoffed for breakfast between the family!
Also, a large colander full of lettuce leaves and about 15 good-sized radishes (I just love Vienna F1 radishes!)
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A couple of courgettes and a few strawberries.
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4 courgettes
7 turnips
3 stalks of rhubarb
1/2 lb gooseberries
1lb strawberries
1/2 lb redcurrants
33 raspberries ( ran out of time)
3 1/2lb blackcurrants
53 pea pods
1 1/2 lb podded broad beans
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I gave in to temptation this morning and had a little furtle amongst the Kestrels.................................
4lbs from two plants. :) :) :)
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The Kestrals look great, I'm growing them too...maybe I need to have a little furtle...
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Salad leaves, spring onions and three mini cucumbers - so one for OH and two for me. ;)
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40 purple carrots (stepson loves these :tongue2:). 55 shallots from 1 small growbag. Chuffed. :dry:
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alot of broad beans .last of me summer strawbs i think 1garlic and a handful of peas oh does sunburn count
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Just a courgette, a lettuce and a few strawberries for me tonight.
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A load of broad beans - have frozen 10 portions this evening!
And that's only a third of my crop! :D
Lettuce, more courgettes.
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Lettuce because thats all he managed to see. ::) i am going to buy him some veg goggles. :wacko: or should they be marrow goggles today. Fancy not checking the courgettes.
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Lettuce because thats all he managed to see. ::) i am going to buy him some veg goggles. :wacko: or should they be marrow goggles today. Fancy not checking the courgettes.
They need checking morning and night - amazing how quickly they grow.
Two courgettes, will be picking cukes, mint and parsley for in tonight's cous cous.
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Lettuce because thats all he managed to see. ::) i am going to buy him some veg goggles. :wacko: or should they be marrow goggles today. Fancy not checking the courgettes.
They need checking morning and night - amazing how quickly they grow.
Two courgettes, will be picking cukes, mint and parsley for in tonight's cous cous.
He knows from past experience that, but he forgot. Hes a man ............... Enough said ::) for his punishment he'll get stuffed marrow, he loves that :blink: hehe
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Just came home with about 30 broad bean pods, a round courgette, couple of lettuce, about 20 radishes (half will probably end up in the bin) and a saucepan full of charlottes, all for tea tonight - lovely!
Went to pick some peas but of the first 4 I had a look inside there was a maggot in each one! Just said to my lad to cut the whole blooming row down! After that experience today I've decided I'm never going to follow DD and his pea fetish.
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5 courgettes, some broccoli and a bucketful of flowers :D
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Seven courgettes so far, the boys forgot the picking pots ::)
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2lbs of gooseberries
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Seven courgettes so far, the boys forgot the picking pots ::)
1/2 lb raspberries and 4oz of atrawberries haha :lol:
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3 courgettes and enough strawberries for my pudding!
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I have a huge bush of redcurrents. So today I ordered a jam pan, my first. I also ordered 24 1/2 ib jam jars and some waxed lids. Ive got Vals book. I harvested 500g of berries today but I think I can see ten times that many. I will report back after next harvest, all going in the freezer until Amazon day comes. I will be back.
Someone on our freecycle asked for a jam pan and got one, i was never that lucky but there is no way mine would EVER be on freecycle. Pics remember Bob please. :D
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another bucket of peas and a few onions to go with yesterdays crop.
pictures - yesterdays, then todays
Grendel
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A Co-op carrier bag of Broad Beans. Poor pollination this year, just over half a colander of podded beans from the whole bag. Lots of 1-2 bean pods.
Goosegogs, first harvest, good tupperware full.
Strawberries, a few bowl fulls :)
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Two cucumbers again, a couple of courgettes and salary stuff. :D
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Ahhh hubby came home with a pressie
Four courgettes how lucky am i :lol:
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2.25kg of Charlotte potatoes, 3 beetroot, 7 courgettes :ohmy: and the first 5 French beans :D
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A kilo of Maris Bards, half a kilo of Ratte Salad, 2 cucumbers.
Forgot to harvest the already large enough courgettes, so will probably have marrows tomorrow!
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First proper strawberry picking of the year, 1.5lb picked and scoffed for breakfast between the family!
Another 2lb picked strawberries at the weekend, plus about 30 small alpine strawberries.
Oh, and 5 tiny carrots. OK, they are a small variety, but I am sure they are supposed to grow to more than half an inch... I say it every year, and I'll say it again: I give up on carrots!!
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2 courgettes
200g blackcurrants
300g raspberries
1 bag spinach beet
10 lonely gooseberries!
I'm going to attempt blackcurrant jam this afternoon (in small jars!)
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Loads of potatoes, a huge bag of broad beans, 4 red onions, lettuce and spinach.
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Five courgettes thats all we had time ti get.
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5 courgettes (although i'm sure 3 could be classed as Marrows) and a bowl of strawberries big enough for 1.
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The very last of the broad beans - have now dug them up for the space.
Lettuce
More courgettes ::)
Pinched a few of my mate's raspberries to make a jam with my blueberries and a punnet of goosegogs I was given!
It really is too hot to make jam!!! :lol:
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Maris Peer potatoes, Carrots, Parsnips and the first of our Beetroot, all for dinner tonight! Also picked some rosemary, sage and parsley for herb crust on the rack of lamb.
First year growing and already hooked, can't believe the difference in taste!!
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2 1/2 lb beetroot with about 300 more to come :blink:
2 courgettes
34 french beans
40 pea pods
2 1/2 lb redcurrants
2lb blackcurrants.
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BQ you do know we went metric?
Thats nice for you, old fashioned girl, old fashioned scales, old fashioned values. Feel free to convert at your pleasure. :D
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1/2 a carrier bag of kestrel spuds
Sandwich bag of sugar snap peas
1/2 sandwich bag of kent blue peas
2 over sized courgettes
few strawberrys that made it as far as my mouth
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picked 20 odd carrots to take to my mum this morning. :)
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In a quick visit to the plot this morning to water, I picked another 7 courgettes :ohmy: and loads of broccoli which was in danger of flowering today in the sun. Tonight I'll go back and get French beans and Swiss chard :)
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About 80 garlic. 1 row left to harvest, hoping for an even number at the end.
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Four cucumbers, one courgette and a bunch of spring onions.
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5lb tomatoes
2 lettuce
1lb of French beans
3.5lb of mangetout
1.5lb of peas
2 chillies
3 cucumbers
My neighbours are lucky people!!
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4 1/2lb blackcurrants
4oz redcurrats
4oz blueberries
1 turnip
7lb beetroot
30 pea pods
5 courgettes
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My first ever beetroots :tongue2: which were yummy, and other stuff- patty pans, courg and Chinese broc. Loads (more) blackcurrants, but I managed to convince my 16 year old to pick them!
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French Beans - Cobra, Minidor, Purple Queen
Squash - Sunburst F1
Lettuce - Romaine Ballon
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I asked my husband to fetch me some rosemary from a pot on the patio. He was gone for an age so I went to find him. He'd gave me a sprig of thyme :nowink:
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Pentland Javelin, two types of lettuce, another load of strawberries , courgettes and mini cucumbers
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Another 4lb blackcurrants :ohmy:
2 courgettes
1/4 lb raspberries
These blackcurrants are taking time to pick when we should be digging maybe 8 bushes is 7 too many :wacko:
We also harvested a rubber trug of weeds :D
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2kg of strawberries! Not bad from a 4'x4' bed! And that's probably only about a third of what's there!
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Loads of potatoes and beetroot, 7 courgettes and a bunch of spring onions :)
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Another half pound of blackcurrants from the garden off the bush i thought had no fruit :wacko:
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Pigguns does that basket belong to Sainsburys!!! ???
Umm... <goes to check>..
No! :D
(it says 'Homebase' :ohmy: but my mum dropped plants off to me in it and I'd seriously not noticed!!)
and me a vicars wife too :blink:
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Pigguns does that basket belong to Sainsburys!!! ???
Umm... <goes to check>..
No! :D
(it says 'Homebase' :ohmy: but my mum dropped plants off to me in it and I'd seriously not noticed!!)
and me a vicars wife too :blink:
Oh the shame. :ohmy: you need to go to confession.
Ps if its embossed you could try removing it with brasso ;)
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Pigguns does that basket belong to Sainsburys!!! ???
Umm... <goes to check>..
No! :D
(it says 'Homebase' :ohmy: but my mum dropped plants off to me in it and I'd seriously not noticed!!)
and me a vicars wife too :blink:
Oh the shame. :ohmy: you need to go to confession.
Ps if its embossed you could try removing it with brasso ;)
Baptist! We're forgiven, and happy clappy, don't do the confession thing :D
I should point out off topic, this is my same mother who thought she'd bring back Opium poppy seeds from Sri Lanka through customs as 'she liked the flowers' ::)
Anyway, nothing to see here :tongue2: - back to harvest; having the Chinese Broc with pulled pork sliders and some of todays new spuds!
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this is my same mother who thought she'd bring back Opium poppy seeds from Sri Lanka through customs as 'she liked the flowers' ::)
You can't leave that like that!! what happened??
?? There's a nice pensioner's bungalow in Kent with an impressive garden of flowers :lol:
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Blimy
Bob is that your word of the day, stop it :lol: i have read it too many times now :tongue2:
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this is my same mother who thought she'd bring back Opium poppy seeds from Sri Lanka through customs as 'she liked the flowers' ::)
You can't leave that like that!! what happened??
?? There's a nice pensioner's bungalow in Kent with an impressive garden of flowers :lol:
Is she relaxed? & not in any pain? or very rich? :lol: :lol: :lol:has lots of visitors?
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1lb redcurrants
6 courgettes
2 1/4 lb blackcurrants ::)
1 1/2 lb french beans
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quick weekly trip to both the plots, harvested peas, beans, a few potatoes, onions, lifted the garlic at one plot as it had rust, and harvested a few artichokes.
4 buckets of produce...
Grendel
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Is it sup tropical where you are BQ?
French beans already???
Mine are still climbing the straight side of the munty bean frame, and we're supposed to be the English Riviera!!!
3 medium cucumbers, some gartenperle toms and a pile of mangetout :)
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Four cukes yesterday and four more today - need to pickle some soon. Lots of salad leaves a bunch of spring onions and one lonely beetroot.
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Is it sup tropical where you are BQ?
French beans already???
Mine are still climbing the straight side of the munty bean frame, and we're supposed to be the English Riviera!!!
3 medium cucumbers, some gartenperle toms and a pile of mangetout :)
Our french beans are out in force in the first bed, second bed are in full flower too. Doing very well. Everyone else is picking runners yet ours are not ready yet. They are starting to set.
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Turnips ,Beetroot and Charlotte :)
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My first spaghetti squash (which I never saw growing!!) I saw the smaller one next to it, moved a leaf and there was 1.9kg of squash!! Duh!!
I have 2 plants from the same seed packet, but this squash is green, the other is a creamy colour? ???
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I look forward to hearing how you find it I have been tempted to grow in the past :)
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Is it sup tropical where you are BQ?
French beans already???
Our French beans have just started cropping this week and I picked a huge bagful today :D. Plus some more courgettes :ohmy: and broccoli.
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Think of the song 12 days of Christmas and sing
Five green courgettes. :lol:
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Four pea pods,
Three Charlotte potatoes,
Two courgettes
And one bunch of spring onions!
Actually a few more than three potatoes, but the rest is true ::)
Mrswashi
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Potatoes , peas, radish , kale spinach ,chard ,broad beans
Raspberries, tayberries , loganberries, and boysenberries blackcurrants and cherries
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Today I harvested, Carrots, Peas, Cauliflower,2nd early pots (Kestrel), Japanese radish, Counter Lettuce, bulb Fennel, Swede, turnip, Lateh tomatoes and some more strawberries. (Getting a bit fed up of straws now if I'm honest)
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You harvested swede? :ohmy:
My nemesis. Please tell more.
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Had my first Cape Goosberries yesterday. I'm growing a dwarf type now 25" high 20 fruit on each. Packet says it has a hint of pineapple in the taste. It does. OH liked it as well but not sure whether it should be in the salad or the fruit bowl.
Anyone in the Swanley area want some redcurrants-I have far to many for us to use.
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Loads of broad beans
carrots, turnips, radish, aaron pilot first early potatoes, rhubarb, peas
tons of lettuce
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Hi DD, regards my swede. The variety is Joan from real seeds. I sowed them in a 24 cell module tray early March in multi-purpose compost and germinated them in my poly-tunnel. I got 22 out of the 24. Planted 2 in tunnel, which I pulled a few weeks ago. They were about 4" across. The other 20 went outside in my prepped Brassica bed, around about early April I think. (Sorry don't keep records) Brassica bed was dug over last October and a good 3" of well rotted cow manure spread then left till Feb/March when it was lightly forked in. A couple of weeks later, I put lime on bed and left to be rained in. Prior to planting, I put a few handfuls of chicken pellets on bed, lightly forked in and then firmed the whole bed by doing the Geoff Hamilton shuffle. All my brassicas are looking good especially the swede. The one I pulled yesterday, was a good 4" to 5". I must admit, I've never grown them as good as this year. The foliage seems to be twice the size as previous years.
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We had the first things we actually planted ourselves here in BG. A handfull of peas and a handful of french beans. Every one savoured!
Makes such a lovely change from courgettes and tomatoes!
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That is lovely Tosca. :)
Four mini cucumbers - gave two away and had one for lunch. They are nearly as bad as courgettes - one minute small and the next ready for picking. Bit forgetting two courgettes.
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A couple of courgettes and some potatoes.
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2 and half pound of peas to be frozen (podded weight), radish, various salad leaves, broad beans, sugar snap peas, green and purple mangetot (the purple ones are lovely), couple of large courgettes and strawbs
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2.3 kg of late spuds from 2 plants (dippy me didn't make a note of the name), they've only been in 13 weeks, but were looking a bit poorly. God alone knows what weight we'll get from 2 plants if they make it to 20 weeks :-)
3 courgettes, 2 cucumber, 1kg of Ratte Salad spuds, a couple of salad toms and enough strawberries for my pudding.
Hoping upon hope that I will get to pick the first runner beans tomorrow.
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A huge amount of Pink Fir apple potatoes from 2 bags of compost - really pleased.
Another courgette.
About 40 large Stuttgarter giant onions - now drying in the utility.
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This is my harvest, beetroot and small onions in the bucket.
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At last we have had some veg from the lotty; everything has been late starting.
Had some calabrese (the first we have ever grown so were chuffed to bits), cabbage, and green beans to go with the spit roast lamb and the rosemary and apple jelly.
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2 1/2 lb blackcurrants
2 yellow toms
1oz blueberries, thats an achievement from such rubbish plants
3 courgettes
4 1/2 lb beetroot
4oz raspberries
Forgot 3 turnips
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15kg of cherries!
So they are in vodka and brandy, squashed into wine, frozen, bottled and pickled. Any other suggestions? There are plenty more on the tree!
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A courgette, pak choi, and spring onions for tea
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Over wintered onions, some are bigger than spanish onions.
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312g gooseberries from first year plant at my allotment!
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Just taken up 1lb of very small onions ready to try pickling
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A handful of radishes (french breakfast and vienna), my first purple teepee beans of the year, and 8 spring onions I had forgotten all about (that were bought in November for 20p from a garden centre and I just found the last of them as I was tidying up our forest of mint!).
And the first peas of the year (but only 4 pods, enough for one each!), the first multiple raspberry crop (only had singles so far, but got about 20 this time!), another 200g strawberries, and a small crop of whitecurrants.
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11 courgettes
4 and a half pound of blackcurrants :unsure:
Hubby gone to pick french beans as my hour was up ::)
And 1 and a half pound of french beans
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Just under 400 g of red currents. Any ideas of what do do with them other than scoff the lot? :)
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Proud of today's haul.
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5 courgettes, a lettuce, 6 or 7 salad toms and 2 mini cucumbers.
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Massive harvest today:
- Red Duke of York potatoes
- Strawberries
- Garlic
- Onions
- Calabrese
- Loganberries
- 4 Courgettes
- 1 red, 1 speckled, 1 loose leaf lettuce plus a baby gem
- Beetroot
- Raspberries
- Mange Tout
- Broad Beans
- A Huge Bunch of Sweet Peas
- Lilies
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About 20 winter onions, 2 lettuces, 3 beetroot and 3 radish
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Thanks bob e, will do :)
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Half a bin bag full of broad beans, after shelling filled a 112litre jug. :(
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Some lady c and broadbeans
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Six mini cucumbers and five small courgettes (picked the courgettes because it looked as if the ends were beginning to rot - they were very nice done with my roast lamb). :)
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Handful of runner beans
Handful of spring onions
Handful of peas
Pack choi
Courgette
Guess what I'm having for dinner?
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Handful of runner beans
Handful of spring onions
Handful of peas
Pack choi
Courgette
Guess what I'm having for dinner?
I would say a very green soup :lol:
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half a bag of runners
3 beetroot
2 courgettes
1 cue
3 radish
handfull of early nantes
a few anya pots
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Another four courgettes
20 radishes of mixed types
More currants
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4 more courgettes (no sign of them 2 days ago...!)
Some lovely French beans
:)
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My first cucumber and was it nice :) more to come :0
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Handful of runner beans
Handful of spring onions
Handful of peas
Pack choi
Courgette
Guess what I'm having for dinner?
Stir fry?
I picked
A few strawberry stragglers
Raspberries
Red currants
Tender stem broccoli
Mange tout
Lettuce
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Radish,lettuce,peas,broad beans,
Tayberries,loganberries ,boysenberries,raspberries and blueberries
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Lettuce; mangetout; 4 courgettes; another spaghetti squash 1.7kg this time); blueberries; gartenperle toms and a cucumber.
Salad for tea! :D
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Pak choi, some Choi sum and cues I picked up from the lottie at lunch- we had steamed chinese greens with oyster sauce and duck pancakes with matchstick cue. Popping back down to water the bits I missed. Over 6 weeks without rain here.
Also spotted the french and runner beans coming in and picked the first few, just as we go away ???
Given up on my multi-sowings of peas. too embarrassed to post a photo, but stunted plants, small weirdly shaped pods and loads of snails on one variety. Oh well, there's always next year :lol:
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Four more cucumbers, a handful of spring onions and a kohl rabi.
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6oz french beans
2lb beetroot
1/2lb raspberries
12oz redcurrants
3 courgettes
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Yet another courgette, where do they magic themselves from?
Took my dd up at 8 this evening, we had absolute fits of giggles when she got so excited at pulling up and furtling for potatoes. She shouted 'it's like finding treasure!' I agreed wholeheartedly!
Peas, sweet peas,
Mrs w
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Lettuce , peas ,radish ,leaf beat , rasps ,tayberry , loganberry ,boysenberry ,and blueberries .
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Four mini cucumbers and eight Tiffany of various sizes (because I accidentally cut the main stem of one of the Tiffany cukes when I was trying to trim back one of the runners which was getting in my way :( ). Definitely making pickled cukes this evening. :)
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3 more courgettes - 29 and counting ???
gartenperle toms
first outdoor cuke
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A courgette ,lettuce french beans ,radish ,rasps, boysenberry ,tayberry loganberry and blackberry.
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2 more courgettes, 5 toms, handfull of blueberries, blackberries and raspberries
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piles of broad beans
turnip, purple french beans, new potatoes, tons of lettuce
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Another 3lb of strawberries over the last 2 days! Woohoo!
(although the mouldy ones are starting to outnumber the fresh ones, so we're clearly not keeping up!)
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broad beans, loads and loads of peas, carrots, cauliflower, courgettes+++, turnips, drawf runner beans and lots of salad crops.
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Loads of potatoes, 6 more courgettes :ohmy: :ohmy: , French beans, broccoli, a bunch of spring onions and more beetroot than I know what to do with! :D
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One marrow, seven courgettes and 1/4 lb raspberries and ,1/2lb french beans
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2 marrows, 5 courgettes, couple of handfuls of runner beans, broad beans, tomatoes, will be digging carrots and taters later. Probably also beetroot if I can get the pickling jars ready.
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2 buckets of peas/beans, plus potatoes, onions and a couple of artichokes.
Grendel
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last lot of peas, some rhubarb, cauliflower, raspberries and white onions.
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More broad beans than we need so the neighbour gladly relieved me of half a carrier bag full and a cherry tom for our daughters cheese n tom sandwich :)
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Six cucumbers yesterday, four today + salad leaves, spring onions and a kohl rabi.
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3 cucumbers and a punnet of gartenperle toms
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A whole Sainsburys 'Bag for Life' of Broad Beans.
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Another indoor cuke, 1 outdoor cuke and 7 more courgettes - 36 and counting! ::)
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A whole Sainsburys 'Bag for Life' of Broad Beans.
Have fun podding them! :lol:
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Just lettuce and red onions today
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A whole Sainsburys 'Bag for Life' of Broad Beans.
Have fun podding them! :lol:
Yus :blink: Must easily be 10lbs unpodded, but because I clear-harvested (removed plants at the same time), theres probably a good few that are empty.
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7lbs of gooseberries,4lbs cherries 1 cucumber.
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1.2kg Red Duke of York potatoes. The skins were redder than red, they looked amazing, and tasted fab too! :wub:
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picked first runner beans of the season along with new potatoes, broad beans, carrots, lettuce and a cucumber
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yesterday got 2 courgettes, the first of the runner beans, some new potatoes and harvested all the shallots. The smaller shallots will be pickled with the larger ones kept for cooking. First time growing shallots and very happy with them :)
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Runner beans. Carrots. Accent potatoes (hell they've grown big ! ). Broad beans. Loads of beetroot which I baked while roasting the pork. Young parsnips. Plenty big enough for just one each with rhe roast but looking at the length of the roots they are going to be some corkers come autumn. Living up to their name Tender And True, too !. Very intense flavour as were the Early Nantes carrots. Very pleased.
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6 courgettes, 1.5kg Ratte Salad spuds from 2 plants, a couple of baby toms and could have picked some cucumbers, but have plenty in the fridge already. Really no idea what i'm going to do with them all as we don't like them pickled. In 4 years on the plot we've had as many this year as in the past 3 years put together.
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Only one courgette, someone has sticky fingers on our site >:(
4 oz french beans
4oz runner beans
5 lb beetroot ??? How quickly did they suddenly grow :ohmy:
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That's why we've fenced our plot in and have a gate with a lock BQ!
and I can only wish I had anywhere near that amount of Beetroot!
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4 more courgettes, our first ever peas :D, loads of French beans
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That's why we've fenced our plot in and have a gate with a lock BQ!
and I can only wish I had anywhere near that amount of Beetroot!
We have had 41 lb this year so far. :lol: we do have a fench but its only three foot and the gate is unlocked. The site is meant to be secure ::)
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Get a sign "CCTV operational on this site" even though it isn't. Might help.
Around our way it would be a challenge ::) it wont stop as they even come on with people on the site, and no-one will challenge them if it doesnt affect their stuff :mad:
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Our site is meant to be secure as well BQ! Didn't stop the local riff raff setting fire to one of the sheds on an untended plot at 5am on Monday morning... site was so secure that the fire brigade had to cut the lock off the gate!
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Few lbs of spuds,2 carrier bags of broad beans, a carrier bag of peas,small punnet of raspberries,some beetroot,& loads of blackcurrants.
Gooseberries from yesterday are now jam & dripping in a jelly bag to make some gooseberry & mint jelly. Cherries from yesterday are in a pie & jam :lol: I'm off & running at long last.
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Four cucumbers, six beetroot, a bunch of spring onions, salad leaves and a couple of courgettes. :)
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5 courgettes
1/2lb blackberries
23 peapods
6 oz tomatoes
1/2lb raspberries
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My first tomato!! a garden pearl
2 huge courgettes they seem to have got 10xs bigger than they were on Friday
Handful of runner beans
First handful of French beans
3 cucumbers
Pak choi
Lettuce
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Courgette ,french beans, a runner bean ,peas,spring onion, shallots
Cherries ,blackcurrants, rasps, tayberries,loganberries,boysenberries,blackberries
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2.5kg redcurrants and 2kg blackcurrants off 2 bushes (of each). A late night jelly-making ahead! Best year yet, and we are about to move home and leave these beauties behind :(
Oh, and the midges harvested about 2litres of my blood!
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Four tiffany cucumbers and two Passandra - will need to make more pickles. Four courgettes. :)
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2 yellow courgettes. Lots of raspberries. Blackcurrants and the last few strawberries. Lots of Sutton's purple podded peas, and a few Hatif d'Annonay and Sutton's Harbinger peas. 1 miniature white cucumber. Carrots, some early Nantes, some Dragon Purple and yellow Obtuse de Doubs.
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Loganberries , tayberries , boysenberries , raspberries blackberries.
Swedes , cabbage , lettuce, kohl rabi, kale ,shallots and onion ,french beans and peas .
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A couple of courgettes and 2 red onions today
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Marrow, lettuce, asparagus peas, cucumber, courgette and broccoli. :)
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Only three cucumbers today, the change in the weather has slowed them down. :) More courgettes and kohl rabi - my new favourite for in salads.
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a washing up bowl full of Broad beans :D
guess what we had for our tea !!!!
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3/4 lb blackberries
6oz raspberries
5 courgettes
4 lb beetroot
1oz blueberries
1 tomato
Blueberries are rubbish so no laughing :wub:
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picked a load of Hinnonmaki Red gooseberries
Runner beans
Broad beans
French beans
more arran pilot potatoes
baby carrots
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First Autumn Bliss raspberry, with many others not far behind - very tasty, but it's not supposed to happen on 1st August!
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7 courgettes plus one which is probably best described as a large marrow :ohmy: and a big bag of French beans, a handful of peas and some green broccoli :)
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6 courgettes
1/2 lb runner beans
81 pea pids
1 1/2lb french beans
And
So far 44 lb potatoes from two beds 8 by 3 foot :ohmy: hubby still weighing
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46 lb of potatoes confirmed by Mr BQ
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Pic of said harvest
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I think that beats the harvest of anybody else.
Its only two beds Bob so far :blink: another large bed plus three twenty foot rows to harvest
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You could feed the Irish. Well done and tell Mr BQ hes done brilliantly. Outstanding crops.
I could feed the irish or florence, she eats potatoes like theres no tomorrow, she will lovely seeing them tomorrow
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Does she hive on potatoes?
Nope thank goodness, she adores the humble old potato, she has them every day for breakfast with bacon.
Really suprised with the spuds as they hadnt gone right over yet :blink: no small spuds, some 1 and a half pounders :ohmy:
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6 courgettes
1/2 lb runner beans
81 pea pids
1 1/2lb french beans
And
So far 44 lb potatoes from two beds 8 by 3 foot :ohmy: hubby still weighing
I don't think you'll have to do any food shopping for the rest of this year with all your harvests!!
Lucky girl. :D
You'll be a bit to busy to shop anyway with a baby and Florence!!
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King Edward potatoes, lettuce, radish, rocket, spring onions, pak choi, red baron onions, broad beans and drawf beans.
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4 more courgettes :ohmy: - so one plant has gone on the compost heap ::) :lol:
I dug up some more Charlottes, picked some runners and a Hispi cabbage ;)
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4 more courgettes :ohmy: - so one plant has gone on the compost heap ::) :lol:
I dug up some more Charlottes, picked some runners and a Hispi cabbage ;)
Oh my :ohmy: thats criminal :lol:
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8 courgettes
2 lettuces
3 'Honeybear' squash
1 spaghetti squash (that looks like the picture on the packet but nothing like the other 2) :unsure: ???
First ever head of 'Ironman' calabrese broccoli!! :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy:
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Another 4 cucumbers
A courgette
lots of salad leaves
French beans and runners
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2 1/2 buckets of mixed peas and beans, 1 bucket of onions and garlic plus a few kg of potatoes.
Grendel
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A few Vales Sovereign taters ( just had a little furtle around - the foliage isn't quite over yet)
Some Tuscan black kale and some sage and rosemary for tea tonight.
There was a fat green cattypiddler on oneof my kale leaves (dead now obviously) ;) but haven't seen any sneaky butterflies in there so it might just have been the one! :D
Oh anda few blueberries.
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Hubby just sent down the hill another five courgettes, lucky us ::)
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3.6kg of Charlottes, 6 courgettes, 6 beetroot, French beans, peas and a bunch of parsley :)
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Just come in
1lb tomatoes
2lb blackberries
1lb raspberries.
Convinced hubby has hidden scales on the plot as most stuff comes off exact weights
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Potatoes , courgettes ,chillis ,peas , french beans , kohl rabi, lettuce , swede ,carrots,onions cabbage
Raspberries , tayberries ,loganberries boysenberries and blackberries .
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spent last year digging to clear overgrown plot and grew very little! this year eaten loads of lovely new potatoes,turnips, small amount peas,mange tout, first cabbage, pak choi, red and white onions and strawberries. didnt expect much so very happy bunny :) :) :) hoping next year continues in similar way! :ohmy:
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just picked loads of purple queen french beans, broad beans, runner beans
some arran pilot potatoes, a cucumber, handful of peas and carrots
cut some mixed lettuce, thinned out some radish and a few small beetroot
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6 1/2 lb beetroot
2 courgettes
1 marrow
4 runner beans ( someone been helping themselves)
1 x 3 lb cabbage thats only been in about 6 weeks :blink:
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Beetroot ,kohl rabi ,cabbage ,swedes, radish ,kale,leaf beat ,swiss chard ,red onion,onion and potatoes .
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more potatoes, rhubarb, onions, courgettes and yellow raspberries and cabbage :) :)
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Yesterday I persuaded my mother to harvest the redcurrant bush. We ended up with nearly 6kg. :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy:
Have spent lots of time preparing them. Nearly done now! I'm sure she was pleased she came to visit for the weekend. :tongue2:
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Plotty don't make my mistake. I had 6kg, but I froze them all in one big bag!!! Nightmare trying to get 2kg to make jam. In the end I hade to break it up and repack it. :mellow:
I think your freezer is too cold, i washed mine, drained and froze and had no problems tipping out a few. Or did you not drain water off properly
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Water, drain??, I put them in a huge bowl of water, picked them over to remove floating bits. Emptied them into a colander, moved into a big freezer bag. Put them into the freezer.
After draining in a colander, I spun mine in a salad spinner to remove the last of the water then put them in the freezer.
I've actually puréed a lot of mine so they takes up up less space in the freezer (and it saved having to remove the stalks beforehand-the sieving took care of that. Good old Kenwood chefs!).
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Hubby just popped back with a USS ( unidentified splitting squash) and a pound of runners ??? Hes already picked today does this stuff really grow that fast
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Raspberries red and yellow, a few runners, beet leaves, baby spinach, onions, that's all at the moment.. Oh and a heap of herbs.
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Plotty don't make my mistake. I had 6kg, but I froze them all in one big bag!!! Nightmare trying to get 2kg to make jam. In the end I hade to break it up and repack it. :mellow:
You can freeze them laid on a baking tray and tip into a bag once frozen and throw straight back in the freezer too. :)
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A load more French beans
A few runner beans
5 cucmbers
1 marrow - over grown courgette
1 courgette sized courgette
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Plotty don't make my mistake. I had 6kg, but I froze them all in one big bag!!! Nightmare trying to get 2kg to make jam. In the end I hade to break it up and repack it. :mellow:
You can freeze them laid on a baking tray and tip into a bag once frozen and throw straight back in the freezer too. :)
Its a domestic freezer, under the fridge, full of choc ices and Ben & Jerry stuff, oh and garlic bread. There is no space for my stuff.
Stop buying ice cream then! :D
Our fridge freezer stopped working (it got too hot!) so we bought a separate fridge and chest freezer and we managed to put both in the utility.
Never looked back.
I do have a box of 'diet' mini milks...
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2 more courgettes. 4 so far this week.
My friend said she wanted some for this weekend, so I fed them. They don't usually get food. Now I'm a little scared...
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2 more courgettes. 4 so far this week.
My friend said she wanted some for this weekend, so I fed them. They don't usually get food. Now I'm a little scared...
You should be :lol:
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The 45th courgette and 4 more Passandra cukes. Loads of Gartenperle toms too.
I'm so chuffed with these -have more than 10 still coming at different stages of development! :happy:
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2 Patty Pan squash, lots of beetroot and some King Edward potatoes
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My first ever cauli. Small but cute. Enough for two. :)
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My first ever cauli. Small but cute. Enough for two. :)
Oh yummy its not the size that counts, that is a thing of beauty. :D
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It almost seems a shame to put it in the pan.
I did say almost! :lol:
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My first ever cauli. Small but cute. Enough for two. :)
Oh yummy its not the size that counts, that is a thing of beauty. :D
Well done! :)
Very jealous of your cauli!
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It almost seems a shame to put it in the pan.
I did say almost! :lol:
At least you have a good pic, i save mine as screen savers :lol:
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Rasps ,potatoes,french beans ,runner beans, kale ,chard ,leaf beat and courgettes .
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My third spaghetti squash 1.6kg this time and there is a fourth coming along nicely :happy:
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2 courgettes (gave another 2 to my plot neighbour), French beans, peas and broccoli.
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6 courgettes
3 tomatoes
1/2 lb runner beans
1 spagetti squash
1/2lb raspberries
1. 1/4lb beetroot
3. 1/2 lb blackberries
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Harvested
3 cabbages, 2 to give away to mum and sister
8 red toms
4 yellow toms
little gem
spuds
french beans
beetroot
courgettes
raspberries
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Various lettuce :D
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Lettuce, spring onions, courgettes, drawf beans, a few runner beans, 2 red onions, the last lot of broad beans (thankfully) and a hispi cabbage. Oh and from the greenhouse at home 10 sungold tomatoes.
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4 large marrows (having a great year after last years disappointment) so very pleased as we love em. Couple handfuls of runners. Endless tomatoes. And of course a skein of courgettes.
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More tomatoes, green and red. I wanted green for chutney.
Cabbage, beetroot and beans
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4 1/2lb beetroot
1lb runner beans
1 marrow
Thats this mornings pickings
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Courgettes, potatoes, carrots, lots of purple beans. Last of the peas. Kale and Chard. Blackcurrants. Patty Pan squash - first year and not loving them - they just seem tasteless and mushy. Gem Rolet squash - only used as courgette replacement so far but will be trying them roasted at tennis ball size.
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Pulled this out of the ground today!!!!
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Sorry, forgot, the swede (Joan) weighed in at 4lb 14ozs. Picked peas,toms,french beans,desiree maincrop pots,cucumber and radish as well. The problem I have with the swede is that I have another 20, more or less just like it. I've never after 23 years of allotmenteering had harvest's like this year. I'ts brilliant!!!!
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French beans , runner beans courgettes .
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Choi sum, pak choi and yet another patty pan the size of a dinner plate :blink: apparently the other plotters have been watering it as its close to the tank so 'they chuck a bit on it' everytime they fill up! :nowink:
Some baby radishes and a few beans (it's been a poor crop so far as the blackfly got the better of them early on and not setting due to dryness). Counted 10 ladybirds on my runners including a few tiny baby ones :)
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Courgettes, beans, potatoes and a handful of peas
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Lettuces, cucumbers, beetroot, broccoli and yellow courgettes. :)
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Have been hopeless on this thread, so it's not daily, but so far, 3 cauli's, 6 mini white cukes, spuds, B/beans, carrots, red onion, radish and a few 'oasis turnip'(don't taste much like melon!) Oh, and strawbs :)
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today, a bucket of peas and assorted beans plus a second half bucket of runner beans. plus a few early apples looked ripe enough to eat, so a few were picked for next weeks lunch boxes.
Grendel
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Pink fur apple taytos, half a dozen Lark cobs, a dozen red salad onions, a couple of handfuls of carrots, lots of toms, beetroot regular, golden and cylindrical, a dozen green chillies and...............the first melon!
Totty
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The first of my french bean Isabel were ready and were picked for tea.
Another courgette - number 46!
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Some potatoes,lettuce,beetroot & 4 cucumber.
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Pink fur apple taytos, half a dozen Lark cobs, a dozen red salad onions, a couple of handfuls of carrots, lots of toms, beetroot regular, golden and cylindrical, a dozen green chillies and...............the first melon!
Totty
What big purple beetroot is that?! :ohmy:
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I meant variety.
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Peas, lots. Courgettes, dwarf French beans. Runner beans. Broad beans. Cucumber, lots. Swede. Raspberries, strawberries, blackcurrants. Cavolo Nero.
Oh, I nearly forgot. OH continues to dig the derelict bit at the top of the plot. He harvested a pair of plimsolls.
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Cauli's, cabbage, potatoes, french beans, runner beans, salad leaves , little gem, radish, tomatoes, cues, many courgettes, chard, Phew, quite a bit!! :ohmy:
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What big purple beetroot is that?! :ohmy:
They look the same as my cylindra.
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Bit of a bumper pick today
Pile of runner beans, gave a load to neighbour. and froze a large tub full.
Picked last of Broad beans, been a a great crop this year.
Picked more purple queen french beans, amazing crop you get from these.
Picked a few beetroot, lettuce, carrots, mint, cucumber, peas and new potatoes.
Picked first few toms of the year.
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Loads of peas(4 varieties), masses of courgettes, lots of cucumber, runner beans, dwarf yellow Minidor French beans, 2 lettuce, a few broad beans. Raspberries, strawberries, blackcurrants.
Oh, and MrB was digging out the last remaining derelict bit at the top of the plot, and he harvested a pair of plimsolls!
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Pink fur apple taytos, half a dozen Lark cobs, a dozen red salad onions, a couple of handfuls of carrots, lots of toms, beetroot regular, golden and cylindrical, a dozen green chillies and...............the first melon!
Totty
What big purple beetroot is that?! :ohmy:
The long ones are called cylindra, easier to peel and taste good too.
Totty
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Standard fare really - spuds, onions (to dry) and golden tomatoes!
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Courgettes, French beans, beetroot, broccoli and 2 types of potatoes :)
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2 and a half pound of maincrop roosters, duly despatched into wedges for tea :D
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Blackberries ,raspberries,potatoes, onions, shallots,spring onion ,beetroot ,runner beans ,french beans,chard
cabbages courgette cucumber,carrots .
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Courgettes numbers 47 and 48 ( still have 20 to eat... ::))
A 2 person portion of French beans - 160g
2 lettuces
All picked in the rain.
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I carrier bag of courgettes
1 of cucumber and gherkins
3 kohlrabi
1 large bag beetroot
1 carrier bag of assorted flat, runners and french beans
a bag of Charlottes
And some calabrese.
Despite the bad beginning to the year's weather everything seems to have caught up and is giving a much better crop than last year. :D
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Why are you a new member BobE? ???
I picked another lettuce and a good handful of black kale.
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Tiny courgettes and more beans.
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Spuds, onions, carrots, peas, rocket, Little gem lettuce thinnings, tomatoes and lollo rosso! Knackered just typing it :tongue2:
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:ohmy: More courgettes!!!!!!!
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More runner beans, more cucumbers, more sweet peas, more onions, two tomatoes, one sungold, one ildi, and two tomatilloes.
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A big fat upside down carrot
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7 more courgettes and some French beans
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Courgettes, cucumbers and the first of the spaghetti squash.
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3 more courgettes, charlotte pots, purple and yellow french beans, 4 smaller-than-a-cherry toms, golden purslane, cape gooseberries, and a pot of delicious strawberries.
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I've had some great harvests the past couple of weeks. Loads of gherkins, courgettes - especially the round ones from aldi - little gems, charlottes, beetroots...it goes on and on!
Harvested this lot the other day:
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...but this potato was not happy getting dug up at all!!!! :mad: :D :D
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More French beans, onions, garlic, broccoli and spuds!!
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I've had some great harvests the past couple of weeks. Loads of gherkins, courgettes - especially the round ones from aldi - little gems, charlottes, beetroots...it goes on and on!
Harvested this lot the other day:
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rRcFqZXlHns/Ug3pRlpC2jI/AAAAAAAAAO8/LVjNANqazFI/s128/Harvest2.jpg)
...but this potato was not happy getting dug up at all!!!! :mad: :D :D
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-UPPgiiCnbQo/Ug3pSGnaXtI/AAAAAAAAAPE/2FbnSs3FJuw/s128/AngryPotato.jpg)
Poor unhappy potato! :lol:
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Courgettes ,French beans and runner beans,and some blackberries .
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Cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce, charlotte potatoes and a bucket load of runner beans
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another bucket of mixed peas and beans, some carrot thinnings and some beetroot.
Grendel
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Mmmmmmmmmmmm carrot thinnings. They're ultra sweet aren't they :tongue2:
Poor, sad potato. It's having a bad day by the looks of things :nowink:
I had a bumper crop picking morning. In the rain though unfortunately :nowink:
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1 Cucumber & 12 cherry tomatoes= 1 Cucumber & 6 cherry tomatoes entered into the local Gardening Show. Don't think I'll win a prize though going by the other entries.
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Well I came 2nd for my cucumber so I'm very pleased with that. Ist photo is my entry,2nd photo is all the entries for the class.
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Well done just for growing one :lol: ::) :lol:
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Last few days harvests.
1 pepper
1/2lb toms
3/4lb raspberries
6 lb runners
5 courgettes
3/4lb french beans
3/4 lb raspberries
1. 1/2lb blackberries
5 courgettes
2. 1/4 lb beetroot
1. 1/4lb toms
1 1/2lb runners
3 1/2 lb cabbage
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Well done Snowdrops :D
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What a courgette :tongue2: get back on topic, no blaming me for your mischief :tongue2:
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Well done snowdrops :D
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Well done Snowdrops :D
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Grats :D
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Well I came 2nd for my cucumber so I'm very pleased with that. Ist photo is my entry,2nd photo is all the entries for the class.
Did they win just because there's was straight?
Bad grammar I know -I' be from Kernow don't y'know :lol:
Yours looks fab Snowy :)
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Congrats on your second prize!
I just popped in as we were passing last night and harvested some broccoli to go with our Sunday roast.
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Picked a load of toms, red, orange and yellow varieties, all sizes.
Another bucket full of runner beans and a large picking of purple queen french beans.
Dug down in the potato sacks to pull out a bucket load of Charlotte potatoes.
Also picked some carrots, some new growing rhubarb, lettuce and a huge bunch of Parsley, having a great crop of Parsley this year so far.
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Well I came 2nd for my cucumber so I'm very pleased with that. Ist photo is my entry,2nd photo is all the entries for the class.
Did they win just because there's was straight?
Bad grammar I know -I' be from Kernow don't y'know :lol:
Yours looks fab Snowy :)
Not sure of what the criteria is, just to brag I have won for a cuc before, not sure how though. The others had quite a few marks on the skin whereas mine had only 1 little blemish so maybe it was that,it certainly wasn't the biggest, so as they say size doesn't matter :lol: I think theymust thrive on neglect to be honest because mine have had hardly any attention this year & I have some very strong plants & have had lots of cucumbers.
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Well I thought that about thriving on neglect, but I've been quite attentive to my grafted ones in the greenhouse and I have at least 4 more ready to harvest today. :)
I have been nice to the outdoor ones too and they too have been super productive this year.
So dunno what the answer is! :D
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7 lb of outdoor red alert toms. From just six plants I reckon that's not bad.
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Well done Snowy. :D
Six courgettes (with lots more to pick) and two cucumbers (with lots more to pick - some of them will be made into pickles). :D
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7 cucumbers, a load of gartenperle toms, 2 aubergines :happy:, 1 green pepper.
What with all the courgettes in the cupboard - ratatouille here I come! :D
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quick visit this morning resulted in a dozen ripe plums and a dozen apples, the rest of the plums should be ripe for next weekend.
Grendel
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Limited myself to tomatoes (traded some gold cherry toms with Nick for some beefsteaks!) and French beans.
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potatoes,chard,beetroot,onions,swede,carrots,french beans,runner beans and cabbage .
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Marrow
6 courgettes
3 1/4lb runner beans
35 lb potatoes
Happy days
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Just a small haul tonight (limited time, as was measuring new plot!) - 0.5kg of mixed beans; 0.3kg of tomatoes.
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Marrow
6 courgettes
3 1/4lb runner beans
35 lb potatoes
Happy days
Hubby popped back tonight to finish picking so added to the above is
1lb 4 oz toms
1lb french beans
3 1/2lb runner beans
1lb raspberries
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My half of todays harvest (I share the allotment with a friend) was lettuce, cucumbers, lots of beetroot, ditto courgettes and the first of the beans! Yay.
:)
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Two
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Oooops!
Two courgettes (one is almost a marrow!)
Approx 20 raspberries
Approx 20 pods of peas
And a vase of sweet peas
:D
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Missed this thread last night
Bumper harvest last night, and plenty more to come
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12 shallots
4 heads of broccoli
5 carrots
A row of King Eddie spuds
Last year my spud crop got caught by a frosty snap just as they were peeking through resulting in 2.5 sacks from 8 rows. This year I'm up to 4 sacks from 2 rows :).
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First four courgettes came back this morning, hubby off to pick now
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Last of the mange tout (had been giving us pounds and pounds through last two months).
Some more runners & Sun Gold toms.
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More potatoes, more courgettes, some spring onions and a lettuce.
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First sweetcorn :D
First eating apples :D
More courgettes :wub:
Blackberries; Raspberries; French Beans; Beetroot; Peas
Seems like a better crop than last year.
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1lb raspberries
1. 1/2lb tomatoes
1 cabbage 2. 1/2 lb
2. 1/2lb runner beans
6 courgettes
2 sweetcorn
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A load of french beans,
Courgettes - (Numbers 51-55) ::)
3 lettuces (I am actually going to run out of lettuce in a minute! :ohmy: :unsure: - one sowing got nibbled >:( )
2 monster (supposedly) spaghetti squash (but likely) giant courgettes - I haven't cut one open to have a look yet.
They weigh 4kgs or 8.5lbs each :ohmy: :ohmy:.
My friend will have a fit if her baby weighs that much this week!! :lol:
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2. 1/2lb blackberries
1/2lb raspberries
2 1/2lb runner beans
And no courgettes :happy: thats the best bit from todays harvest
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First edible fig of the year, & it was delicious as I've just eaten it. Also went to the plot & dug loads of Pink Fir Apple potatoes from just a couple of plants,beetroot,raspberries,blackberries,white currants. All cooked up now.Well mostly,still have spuds even after some steamed for dinner & 2 potato salads for tomorrow, roast beetroot & boiled beetroot. Fruit in a summer pudding for tomorrow. :D
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a bucket of apples, half a bucket of plums, half a bucket of peas/ beans, and 4 punnetts (ok takeaway containers) of tomatoes
Grendel
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French beans ,runner beans potatoes ,carrots,beetroot chard ,spinach spring onions .
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4 Passandra cukes and another aubergine.
Another pile of French beans too.
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Loads of spuds, tomatoes, french beans, leeks and celery!
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Piles of runner beans
Good picking of purple queen french beans
A summer greyhound cabbage, beetroot, lettuce, carrots, potatoes and tomatoes,
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10 passandra cucumber and 8 tiffany. The plants died when I was on holiday - the GH door was shut and the plants just could not cope. So lots of pickles being made. 4 courgettes, some beetroot and a good size bunch spring onions. Nearly forgot - first couple of tomatoes. :)
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and another aubergine.
Ha! Bragging again, eh? :nowink:
:lol: :lol:
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Maincrop King Edward, third of my Flyaway Carrots and another couple of beetroot!
First year with small raised beds in garden and pleased with my harvest to date!
Hooked...
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and another aubergine.
Ha! Bragging again, eh? :nowink:
:lol: :lol:
I just can't help it! :lol:
I'm soooo chuffed :D
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1/2 a punnet of raspberries,2 toms from the plot, & hedgerow blackberries-must go back with larger containers
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Last of the dwarf french beans
Runner beans
Onions
Beetroot (Choggia)
Carrots (Paris Atlas)
Lettuce
Summer Squash Sunburst F1
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Runner beans ,french beans ,carrots,beetroot , onion ,potatoes ,courgetteleaf beat.
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Ok here goes tonights harvest
3. 1/2lb tomatoes
1 pepper
2 lb french beans
2lb raspberries
8. 3/4lb runner beans
2. 1/2lb blackberries
4 courgettes
And a marrow. :blink: :ohmy: what the heck do i do with all those runner beans
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My son popped round for a visit this afternoon - so I sent him home with a carrier bag of runner beans, some tomatoes, a few sweetcorn and some courgettes :lol:
His face was :blink:
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Invited to have some apples by my new plot neighbour.
What with some blackberries I found - blackberry and apple jelly was created :happy:
Couple of carrots and some French beans :)
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6.5 lb of carrots (got a bit carried away)
35 onions (ditto)
6 lb of red roosters (can you see the theme)
1lb runner beans
1/2 lb tomatoes
Went round to a friends and came back with:
bag of apples
1kg of black currants - I'm going to try and make jam with them :D
All in all a jolly good harvest :-)
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6.5 lb of carrots (got a bit carried away)
35 onions (ditto)
6 lb of red roosters (can you see the theme)
1lb runner beans
1/2 lb tomatoes
Went round to a friends and came back with:
bag of apples
1kg of black currants - I'm going to try and make jam with them :D
All in all a jolly good harvest :-)
I made a lovely BlackBerry and Apple jelly jam yesterday - delish.
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back from hols and nipped to allotment when getting dark with my 10 year old helper and torch!
picked
4 big courgettes!
4 big beetroot!
4 big turnips!
2 cabbages
11b cherry tomatoes (plant was gift)
2 tigerellas
admired lots of sweetcorn cobs
amazing growth in 2 weeks but minimal weeds which was great. worked hard before hols so that paid off :)
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6 very big courgettes, half a sack of potatoes, and a few beetroots.
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Lots of spaghetti squash, French beans, marrow, more cucumbers, more courgettes and our very first musk melons!
Oh and my allot friend took some tomatilloes too.
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4 courgettes
4lb runners
21. 1/2lb potatoes
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Starting to really get a good harvest out of a new plot that was still a hay-field at the beginning of June. Just starting to harvest second earlies - Nadine - really enjoying them. Loads of dwarf and runner beans already in the freezer as we can't keep up. Kale, beetroot, chinese cabbage and pattypans all turning in. Only got half the plot planted this year but everything prepared for giving it a proper go through the autumn and winter and be in full production next year.
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3. 1/2lb runners
9lb tomatoes
4 spagetti squash
1 harlequin
1 mystery squash
2 large cabbage
1 courgette
9 lb beetroot
1/4lb carrots
Holy molley what will i do with all those tomatoes
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My pickings today..think not bad for a newbie :)
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Still working out what to do with the tomato flood from last night :blink:
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Courgettes numbers 56 & 57
A couple of meals worth of French beans
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11 yellow courgettes and 4 green courgettes ... for just little me :ohmy: :blink:
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11 yellow courgettes and 4 green courgettes ... for just little me :ohmy: :blink:
Hehe chutney yorkie :lol:
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You haven't seen how many jars of chutney from previous years I have stashed under the spare bed, and in the study ... :ohmy:
And besides which, I haven't got any clean jars and loathe with a passion trying to get labels off the re-used jars.
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Put em through the dishwasher they come of easy then :)
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Sweetcorn, french beans, runner beans, beetroot, spring onion, broccoli, potatoes, chillies, tomatoes and raspberries. I shall not be going to the supermarket this weekend :)
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From the greenhouse: 4 aubergines, 5 cukes and a bowl of sweet million tomatoes and another of Gartenperle toms :D
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Yellow courgettes, patty pan squash, cucumber, broad beans, runner beans, Minidor dwarf yellow French beans, Coco Blue climbing French beans, Cherokee trail of tears climbing bean, peas (4 varieties), Brown Bath cos lettuce, 1 huge Japanese radish, 1 huge Tatsoi pak choi, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries.
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Potatoes, French beans, 2 courgettes and some ruby chard :)
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My first proper afternoon down the allotment since coming back off holiday. :)
We harvested - A carrier bag full of shallots,( they went in late, so hence the extra lateness of harvesting them.) seed tray full of mixed Toms, 4 courgettes - turned Marrows + 4 courgettes, a heaped tray of French Beans (think they have gone over) and some lovely flavoursome carrots.
Some of our overripe tomatoes were made into sauce tonight for homemade pizza and it was Devine. :)
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Couple of kilos of 'Robinta' potatoes - had never heard of them until I saw a pack of 10 tubers in my usual garden centre - they're lovely pink coloured spuds.
I think they're resistant to many things. I stuck them in the back garden in fairly low quality soil so I'm really pleased with the crop - about 30+ potatoes from 10 small tubers and some are big bakers!
One potato appears to have slug damage (the tiny slug being present inside still).
Imagine if I stuck them in really good quality soil!! Might try them again next year if they taste good or cook well - haven't tried yet :D
Also picked a load of blueberries, a few more french beans and a bunch of RADISHES!! Yes radishes - a successful crop finally!!
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Some French beans and a present of some Victoria plums from my plot neighbour :)
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4 1/4lb tomatoes
1 marrow
7 courgettes
1. 1/4 lb raspberries
2 corn cobs
1. 3/4lb french beans
3. 1/4lb runner beans
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Errrm
3. 1/2 lb red toms and errrrrrmmmm
28lb green toms
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Rocket.
And spicy it was too ;) :)
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Cherry tomatoes (over 2kg), rocket, herb fennel, lettuce, carrots, spring onions picked!
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Rosemary and oregano from my now destroyed herb ring! :D
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Selection of different tomatoes, chard, courgettes and main crop potatoes.
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26 seeds sow... but at least I now have something to show for them !
Chicken egg for scale - I didn't grow that ::)
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I'm only growing mini cues this year but getting lots of them :)
Pickings - toms, cucs, Florence fennel (yay! :D), celery (woohoo) more Charlottes, fat carrots (D'Eysines), bay leaves, Italian flat parsley, sweetcorn :tongue2: Oh and yet more blackberries. I'm eating those at every meal now. I have too as they're free :)
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1kg mixed toms, runner and french beans :)
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Lots of patty pan, last of the gem rolet squash, tiny courgettes and 1/2 a bag of runners and dwarf beans.
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French beans,yellow beans,a few borlotti beans & my first courgette this year :closedeyes: plus 2 more very small ones before I go away for 10 days. S*ds law the sweetcorn will be ready by the weekend :mad: Probably all gone by the time I get back.
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Tomatoes ::) :D
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the millionth cucumber, runners, tomatoes, sweet peas.
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A couple of courgettes - tea already planned around those - and another 28 cucumbers, making 85 so far now.
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5 lbs Alicante :)... 5 1/2 lbs beetroot :).... 2 1/2 lbs carrots :) ......4lb cabbage :) haven't started on Gardener's Delight yet ::) :ohmy:.
Add 2lbs Alicante from the garden and 2 1/2 lbs Gardener's Delight and 2 cucumbers
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the millionth cucumber, runners, tomatoes, sweet peas.
A couple of courgettes - tea already planned around those - and another 28 cucumbers, making 85 so far now.
I wish I had the knack with cucumbers- 'snot fair :( *sobs*
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and another 28 cucumbers, making 85 so far now.
I wish I had the knack with cucumbers- 'snot fair :( *sobs*
We've previously had growing success with Marketmore and Crystal Lemon (both indoors), but these are Piccolo di Parigi (funky green seeds ;)) which although we have a few plants, seem to be really prolific fruiters too. Instead of little gherkin sized fruits, we're only harvesting when they get to about half or more normal cucumber length by about normal cucumber girth.
I think vinegar and yoghurt (for the soup recipe I posted) are high on the shopping list. ::)
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the millionth cucumber, runners, tomatoes, sweet peas.
A couple of courgettes - tea already planned around those - and another 28 cucumbers, making 85 so far now.
I wish I had the knack with cucumbers- 'snot fair :( *sobs*
Sorry Mum - 9 outdoor cukes to go with the 1 outdoor cuke picked the other day and 6 from the grafted cukes today as well. :)
If it's worth anything - until last year when I had minimal success with outdoor ones indoors (grand total of 5 last year as I recall) I can only keep recommending the grafted ones - worth every penny.
As for the outdoor ones - I chanced them in pots by the back door, knowing that that wall gets the sun from 12 pm and holds the heat to nearly 11pm - even this time of year!!!
I shall just stick with the grafted ones next year (and grafted aubs too) just need the second greenhouse now!! :lol:
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More Runner Beans....
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Errrm never take a day off picking runner beans EVER
22 1/4lb runner beans :unsure: It went dark on hubby there is more :ohmy:
11 courgettes
1 marrow
5 corn
4 lb toms from the tunnel.
1 1/2lb rasberries
2lb french beans
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:lol: :lol: of BQ's list I can only say I picked French beans! Seems so pathetic in comparison :lol:
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:lol: :lol: of BQ's list I can only say I picked French beans! Seems so pathetic in comparison :lol:
I dreamt about runner beans chasing me :blink: i was hoping it had all been a dream but looking in the kitchen this morning .......... I see its NOT :ohmy:
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I have had Beene peas potatoes and broads beans today I have only had the plot for 3 months no cucumbers though I have had 5 plants eaten this year new tactics for them next year and the toms as mine are green still
Regards
Robin
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the millionth cucumber, runners, tomatoes, sweet peas.
A couple of courgettes - tea already planned around those - and another 28 cucumbers, making 85 so far now.
I wish I had the knack with cucumbers- 'snot fair :( *sobs*
Just to make you feel better Mum, here's a pic of my greenhouse Passandra cuke after 6 months of TLC (there's another one in there somewhere but it's nowhere near as healthy as the one you can see! ::) :lol:)
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Now see, a few of my cuke leaves have discoloured slightly and gone a bit thin, but the plants still look really healthy on the grafted Passandra I have.
That looks like your greenhouse is too hot Jay
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6 more courgettes (taking me to 63 from 6 plants now ;) )
7 beetroot 'Choggia'
A bunch of radishes 'French Breakfast' (the longer I leave them in the ground the hotter they seem to get!
4 'Honey bear' squashes (taking the total from the plots 4 plants to 8 I think - disappointed - thought they would be more prolific) :(
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Dug up 26lb of Desiree and 26lb of Maris on Thursday.
The Desiree were very large and about a third a good 6 inches long. Best crop ever.
Not a hole or scratch in sight either.
Picking a bowlful of many tomato varieties everyday this week and a load this morning.
Picked a bucket load of runner beans, some heading for neighbours and freezer.
Picked five cucumbers last week from the greenhouse and outdoor plants.
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2kg runner beans
23 cobs of corn (amazing all but 2 fully pollinated)
2 more courgettes
a handful of green beans
12 cherry toms
leaf beet
and 10 orange aldi chillis
Have spent the whole afternoon blanching and bagging!
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Not strictly todays harvest, but the Allium Harvest 2013:
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1 lb toms
2 lb raspberries
8 corn cobs
7 courgettes
3 1/2lb beetroot
Hubby ran past the bean frame with his eyes closed
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Runner beans. I managed to donate some to an unsuspecting new plotholder before everyone else got to him.
Coco Blue French beans, Cherokee Trail of Tears Pole bean, Sutton's Purple Podded Peas, a cucumber, 2 yellow courgettes, 2 green courgettes, 2 orange patty pan squash. A few crimson flowered broad beans, a biggish turnip. Raspberries, blackberries, plums. A giant pak choi. 1 Stoke lettuce.
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Few carrots (needed for tea tonight), a meals worth of french beans, 2 lettuces
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Five corn and ...........
12lb of runners :wacko: oh my someone save me
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Couple of kilos of Desiree
1.5 kilos of tomatoes - plum and cherry
Celery
Plums(didn't weigh them) - from a neighbour (who's away and has declared her tree free to pillage before the wasps get them!)
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Too many French beans! ::)
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Too many French beans! ::)
Fagioli e pomodori will use them with a difference !
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Carrier full of runners, toms and a large cue that's been hiding from me since I put fleece around the pot that's outside. Chard, 6 lovely cobs end of 1st lot of corn, next variety almost ready (planning by accident :happy:). It's very exciting, my first year of corn and toms.
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Its in my diary the beans have sent me to the padded cell for a lie down :unsure:
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I was chuffed today as I am already harvesting things I only sowed a few weeks ago, eg spinaches and coriander leaf. The dog was nibbling me tatsoi :mad: , the pak choi is well up and so are the lettuces and chicories :) :) :) :)
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OMG this is beyond funny
Another 17lb of runner beans to add to the 35 lb from yesterday :ohmy:
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Note to self. Do not grow as many tomato's next year. :lol:
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I harvested the first (and biggest) melon. Grew them in hope and it worked! I've never tasted anything like it.
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More beans...
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Rocket and toms for tea! :D
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more pumpkins, rasps, tom's,
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Potatoes and chard to go with tonight's lamb roast and the beans I picked yesterday :)
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4lb runner beans
10 corn
3 courgettes
Picked by the girls so there will be more later
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4lb runner beans
10 corn
3 courgettes
Picked by the girls so there will be more later
Only 4lb? You're slacking! :)
Ps just noticed that your harvest is later!
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4lb runner beans
10 corn
3 courgettes
Picked by the girls so there will be more later
Only 4lb? You're slacking! :)
Ps just noticed that your harvest is later!
Thats to add to the 17lb from yesterday and 35lb from the day before. :lol: this was the girls pickings just because they know how much i love beans right now ::)
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Runner beans, 2 green courgettes, 4 patty pan squashes, a few peas, purple podded peas, French beans and broad beans. Lots of purple carrots and a few orange ones. Lots of cucumber. Loads of blackberries and raspberries.
Finally, and with much fanfare, my first 2 cobs of sweetcorn, eaten for lunch. First successful attempt in 3 years of trying.
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Apples,pears,plums,tomatoes,potatoes, french beans,runner beans. spring onions
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Pears, runner,French & yellow beans,5 raspberries
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3 courgettes - numbers 64, 65 and 66!! ::)
Bunch of radishes
4 carrots
2 person portion of French beans
Dozen apples from the next door tree (I was told to help myself :happy:)
2 lettuces
All my Roma toms - either ripe or not as they don't look to good once ripened on the plant - sat in a tub with 3 ripe bananas (which I didn't grow :D)
1 aubergine
1 cuke
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One large Queensland blue pumpkin (8kg). :blink:
Had to take a co-codamol for the back pain, and a smaller damaged one the woodlice were having a go at >:(
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Took 2 grandsons to the 'lotment after church to dig up 1 or 2 veggies for their Beavers and Cubs special Harvest Festival later today. Well, they have helped (?) grow them. So up came a few lovely carrots, onions and beetroot. Clean forgot to suggest runner beans. :(
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10lbs of runner beans
Bowls of tomatoes, many varieties
Carrots, beetroot, lettuce
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5lb cabbage
19lb potatoes
No time to pick beans it rained and i dont get wet for any old bean. Hubby popped back inbetween the rain and pulled a bucket of weeds and picked 1 1/2lb raspberries
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A carrier bag full of potatoes & I finished picking the pears as the wind was really getting up & I won't be going back until later in the week.
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last night I picked all the spuds I had been growing in straw, I went down just before dusk hoping no 1 would be around to see my disaster but actually there were far more spuds than I could ever have imagined. 15kg from 5 rows of 8 spuds.
The best bit is the ground underneath is completely cleared! I'm going to plonk some kale in the undug ground with a bulb planter when I get a chance.
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Pictured: a handful of beans (mostly blue lake and the last 2 or 3 purple teepee), my SECOND yellow courgette, some tiny chillis (numex twilight, small but powerful!) and 2 unripe chillis (golden cayenne, cut off by accident), 2 unknown long green peppers (from a mixed seed packet), and four varieties of tomato (1 x garden peach, 2 x tiny tim, 4 x brown berry, 12 currant sweet pea)
Also, a colander-full of red-veined sorrel and a second collander full of lettuce from a replanted supermarket live-salad tray!
Oh, and on Friday, this rather cute yellow pepper (mini-bell yellow)
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Basil all picked and turned into pesto for freezing
Mint into mint and caper sauce for freezing
Coriander for hubbies special Thai chicken recipe
Blueberries for breakfast tomorrow
Giant mustard leaves for lunchtime salad
and all the spuds in containers if I can manage it between downpours.
oh and of course some courgettes :wacko:
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18lbs Green Tomatoes;
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Some lovely ripe larger Italian tomato varieties, to be stuffed and baked.
Loads more runner beans, so many I gave away a carrier bag full to family and neighbours.
Cucumbers, spinach, summer cabbage and carrots.
Picked Tons of parsley and mint for freezing over winter.
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the final bucket of green tomatoes, a few carrots and the remaining pears came home today.
Grendel
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Yesterday: lettuce, 3 courgettes (still somewhere in the 60's still countwise) - they are now the last as the plants have gone!
A load of windfall apples for jammin'
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Loads of potatoes, French beans, courgettes and broccoli plus some rather pathetic spring onions
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butternut (5lbs) cabbage (4lbs) 1lb carrots, another 6lbs tomatoes (mostly split) 3/4 lb courgette (probably the last one :D). Dug up the rest of the onions and left them in the greenhouse to collect tomorrow. and 5lbs beetroot!
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3lb beetroot
26 1/4 lb beans
3 hunter squash
4 courgettes
2lb french beans
1lb tomatoes
More bits to come later but we all needed lunch first.
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3 Boston winter squash. Biggest weighed in at 11.4 kg. Beetroot, loads of carrots, Cavolo Nero.
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Brought home 4 sweet dumpling squash, a few more courgettes and a couple of parsnips.
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Runner beans, cucumbers, courgette, beetroots, spinach beet leaves, tomatilloes, tomatoes, blackberries.
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14lbs potatoes,yes I know it's a stone but sounds better that way,2lbs mixed green beans-runners,yellow,green French & yellow climbing,5 raspberries.
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14lbs potatoes,yes I know it's a stone but sounds better that way,2lbs mixed green beans-runners,yellow,green French & yellow climbing,5 raspberries.
You dont go to tesco and ask for a stone of spuds lol i like the old lb and ounces. ;) :lol:
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14lbs potatoes,yes I know it's a stone but sounds better that way,2lbs mixed green beans-runners,yellow,green French & yellow climbing,5 raspberries.
You dont go to tesco and ask for a stone of spuds lol i like the old lb and ounces. ;) :lol:
you don't say :tongue2:
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They wouldn't know what you mean't :lol:
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Picked the last of my Purple queen beans today, what a great crop of these I have had this year and delicious too, Will definitely be growing again next year.
Picked a bowl of cherry tomatoes, lettuce and spinach.
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Sugarsnax 54 F1 carrots and some Nero di Toscana Kale to go with the roast later ;)
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Courgettes, blueberries, and all the mint which has been made into mint and caper sauce and frozen :D
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A lettuce and two absolutely beautiful cobs of sweetcorn. Success at last!
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More beans and my first ever butternut and first ever Queensland Blue pumpkin :D :D Can't quite believe I actually managed to grow them.
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The last of the French beans (I will miss them)
Some runner beans
More Anchocha
Lettuce and Swiss card for lunch
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Very nice haul tonight. There were 2 litres of 100s&1000s but I managed to palm them off onto my god-daughter. I am particularly happy about the strawberries, the squashes and the sloes. I may have some lovely sloe gin for that winter celebration we aren't allowed to mention yet! :D
Apples were from Mum's garden, had to go over her way for the sloes, and the fields are absolutely dripping with them.
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Very nice haul tonight. There were 2 litres of 100s&1000s but I managed to palm them off onto my god-daughter. I am particularly happy about the strawberries, the squashes and the sloes. I may have some lovely sloe gin for that winter celebration we aren't allowed to mention yet! :D
Apples were from Mum's garden, had to go over her way for the sloes, and the fields are absolutely dripping with them.
Sloes round here are crxp :(
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carrots ,runner and french beans ,beetroot apples autumn rasps and spring onions
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Very nice haul tonight. There were 2 litres of 100s&1000s but I managed to palm them off onto my god-daughter. I am particularly happy about the strawberries, the squashes and the sloes. I may have some lovely sloe gin for that winter celebration we aren't allowed to mention yet! :D
Apples were from Mum's garden, had to go over her way for the sloes, and the fields are absolutely dripping with them.
Sloes round here are crxp :(
Shame - there are almost none at my allotment site either. Don't know why the 2 places are so different.
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Oh my word :ohmy: note to self: NEVER leave beans without picking for 5 days ::) SO many beans :lol:
Luckily there were also broccoli, courgettes, chard and kale to alleviate the bean-picking boredom :)
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Leaving my runner beans now to fatten up, but I've really enjoyed them :D, I've got a late sowing of dwarf french wax to use now anyway.
Pulled my first ever swede and a few more turnips up- it's so much more fun to tug them out than the battle with clay and a fork I get at home,
Brought home my last cordon tom (Alicante I think) to hang up to ripen in the polyhouse and spotted some forgotten spinach I'd planted around the base of the toms when I put them in back in June- weird, but completely slug and bird-peck free despite being forgotten. May start bringing the squash home but nervous about cutting the Butternuts or acorn squash in case it's too soon.
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12lbs Sloes & 3lbs Blackberries. Sloe Gin / Liquer time and Blackberry Brandy I think :)
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21lb potatoes
26lb runner beans
And i forgot in my diary
5 spagetti squash. ( we think) ::)
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Bucket of King Edward potatoes with only few with holes in!
Cabbage
4 corn cobs
Few turnips
One courgette. Still one small one growing
2 small jack o lantern pumkins
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Yesterday it was 2kg of Cara potato's and 3 leeks. These where picked just to make some Leek and Potato soup which the wife has just made. It is fantastic.
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5 courgettes from plants I thought were nearly done for and some more beans :)
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Very nice haul tonight. There were 2 litres of 100s&1000s but I managed to palm them off onto my god-daughter. I am particularly happy about the strawberries, the squashes and the sloes. I may have some lovely sloe gin for that winter celebration we aren't allowed to mention yet! :D
Apples were from Mum's garden, had to go over her way for the sloes, and the fields are absolutely dripping with them.
Oh, how I wish I had a Starapromen tree.... :D
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At my parents' house this weekend, and came away with half a carrier bag of Bramleys, half a carrier bag of quince, and an ice-cream tub full of damsons :) (these are about thesweetest damsons I've ever tasted! usually they are a bit too tart uncooked, but I tried one anyway, and they are very tasty! And a huge improvement on last year when the trees were almost free of fruit).
Then got home and picked a few things from the back garden, mostly tomatoes, but some courgettes, peppers and chillis too. Decided to pick most of the currant-sweet-pea toms as the vines aren't ripening fully but those that are ripening are starting to split.
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Lots of green toms - Sweet Million - they won't ripen on the plants now.
2 cucumbers
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Had the first of the cabbages today....I say had, it was picked. We haven't been able to pick them earlier as the neighbour sprayed them for flea beetle. I am watching to see if she brings us a sauerkraut barrel!
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Heck! :ohmy:
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Last two rows of potatoes
Three cabbages
Small pot of raspberries
Found two more small courgettes but will let them grow bit bigger!
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I can't believe how good it has been this year! :)
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Yesterday I picked 3 pumpkins (1 the biggest that I could bare to risk beig nicked and 2 from a dying plant I'd trodden on)
My first sweet dumpling squash
Some runner beans
Anchocha
Lettuce and more lettuce
an got given a marrow
Picked my biggest beef stake tomato from the garden that had been colouring up over the last few weeks :)
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Freebies!
Apples, damsons and quince from my Dad's garden and sloes from the hedgerows :)
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9 large squash
2 large courgettes AKA marrows
2 even larger cabbage.
They have now gone back for the next lot, hubby broke the handles on my blue ikea bag trying to carry too much ::) 50p hubby to replace the bag ::)
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Few carrots,
1 celeriac (it had started to bolt)
1 large green spaghetti squash beastie
A carrier bag full of windfall apples
Another carrier bag full of perpetual spinach
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Last potatoes and plum tomatoes, another yellow pepper, a swede and a parsnip (couldn't wait any longer)!
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A handful of foot long green beans, a good sized yellow courgette, 1.5kg Highland Burgandy Red spudolas, and a tub full of salad leaves. Yum. Chuffed to still have two planters of spudolas still to harvest too
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I haven't been to the plot for a week so 3 pumpkins, 1 butternut, a huge bag of beans, 4 green and 2 yellow courgettes and a small amount of broccoli plus loads of flowers. Am thrilled as I never thought October would be so productive :)
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1 cabbage, 6 sweet dumpling squash, 6 small yellow courgettes.
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Tuscan Kale and a leek. Back when discussions on nipping tops and roots I explained that our Bulgarian neighbour had insisted that we keep taking the tops off. Now we know why, the leeks over here are four feet long and thin around the girth, only one needed for the two of us. Fairly strong in flavour too. Some tomatoes and a pepper from the cellar too, for lunch.
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Tuscan Kale and a leek. Back when discussions on nipping tops and roots I explained that our Bulgarian neighbour had insisted that we keep taking the tops off. Now we know why, the leeks over here are four feet long and thin around the girth, only one needed for the two of us. Fairly strong in flavour too. Some tomatoes and a pepper from the cellar too, for lunch.
Let me get this right tosca - you keep trimming them?? :unsure: Right through the season?
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Tuscan Kale and a leek. Back when discussions on nipping tops and roots I explained that our Bulgarian neighbour had insisted that we keep taking the tops off. Now we know why, the leeks over here are four feet long and thin around the girth, only one needed for the two of us. Fairly strong in flavour too. Some tomatoes and a pepper from the cellar too, for lunch.
Let me get this right tosca - you keep trimming them?? :unsure: Right through the season?
As far as we can tell, yes. Whether that is to stop soil movement in the wind i don't know, as they are so tall. The first time I saw a bunch at the market I couldn't stop staring, they were longer than our's, and all trimmed. We stopped doing our's a couple of weeks ago and the top outer growth started to peel down. Here is a pic, but what you can't tell from here is that the usable core went nearly to the top, silly picture!
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All the rest of my tomatoes. The outdoor ones were starting to split in the cold nights, and those in the lean-to were doing OK but ripening very very slowly.... so now have every sunny windowsill covered in green tomatoes.
Clockwise from the mixed bowl of ripe tomatoes..... mixed bowl of all the ripe tomatoes there were; brown berry (allegedly); lemon plum; tiny tim; garden peach; currant sweet pea.
So, as for the experiment with 5 new varieties, I think I've had mixed results:
The brown berry (1 plant) gave good yields, and they were the first to ripen on the plant, so have given tomatoes through the last couple of months.
The lemon plum (2 plants) was by weight the most productive, but has so far given only one ripe tomato!
The tiny tim (1 plant) was disappointing compared to previous bush varieties I've grown - yields were good and tomatos tasty, but very slow to ripen, and quite tough skins
The garden peach (2 plants) was not very productive or fast ripening, but taste superb and look even better (the nicest looking tomato I have grown!)
And the currant sweet pea (4 plants) gave huge numbers of tomatos which ripened quickly with a lovely taste, but because of the small size of tomatos produced, and the massive size of the plants (three of them escaped out of the top of the greenhouse while I was on holiday and were a good 3' above the top), were probably not all that productive.
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I picked my pumpkin and the remaining squahses today whilst having a tidy up. Also picked quite a few tomatoes. They definately preferred being in the ground at the allotment than in pots at home. Had a few tiny aubergines and quite a few chilli peppers that were also outside. I've still got a load of beetroots in the ground which will be coming up in the next couple of weeks.
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Red and orange carrots, a huge bunch of chervil for herb butter and freezing, chives and another flipping cabbage.
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More perpetual spinach for tea (at this rate 15 plants aren't going to last me the winter are they! :D )
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All the rest of my tomatoes. The outdoor ones were starting to split in the cold nights, and those in the lean-to were doing OK but ripening very very slowly.... so now have every sunny windowsill covered in green tomatoes.
Clockwise from the mixed bowl of ripe tomatoes..... mixed bowl of all the ripe tomatoes there were; brown berry (allegedly); lemon plum; tiny tim; garden peach; currant sweet pea.
So, as for the experiment with 5 new varieties, I think I've had mixed results:
The brown berry (1 plant) gave good yields, and they were the first to ripen on the plant, so have given tomatoes through the last couple of months.
The lemon plum (2 plants) was by weight the most productive, but has so far given only one ripe tomato!
The tiny tim (1 plant) was disappointing compared to previous bush varieties I've grown - yields were good and tomatos tasty, but very slow to ripen, and quite tough skins
The garden peach (2 plants) was not very productive or fast ripening, but taste superb and look even better (the nicest looking tomato I have grown!)
And the currant sweet pea (4 plants) gave huge numbers of tomatos which ripened quickly with a lovely taste, but because of the small size of tomatos produced, and the massive size of the plants (three of them escaped out of the top of the greenhouse while I was on holiday and were a good 3' above the top), were probably not all that productive.
It might be helpful to know, that to ripen tomatoes, no light is required. It may be better to use the airing cupboard if that is warmer, as it is warmth that will ripen them. My airing cupboard is around 25c, and that seems to be spot on for ripening the stubborn ones!
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Apples and mint for mint Jelly :)
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Yesterday's harvest, one 3kilo pumpkin, 3 uchi kuri squash, 5 winter festival squash, 3 courgettes (yep, they are still going) the last (I think) Runner beans and a ton of tomatoes and chilli's.
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It might be helpful to know, that to ripen tomatoes, no light is required. It may be better to use the airing cupboard if that is warmer, as it is warmth that will ripen them. My airing cupboard is around 25c, and that seems to be spot on for ripening the stubborn ones!
Thanks Richie. The airing cupboard isn't very big, so can't do that. The first year I grew tomatoes, I but some green ones in a paper bag in the airing cupboard and forgot about them.... the sheets looked like there had been an assassination....
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A bunch of Tuscan black kale, bunch of carrots, 3 small turnips and 3 bootiful celeriac roots
Just need a cauli and cauli and celeriac soup comin' up :happy:
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The last of the potatoes, French beans and courgettes plus a little broccoli and a bunch of flowers :)
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Picked a nice bunch of carrots from pots
Pulled out a good handful of Charlotte potatoes from potato bags still outside
Still picking loads of runner beans and plenty still growing
Picked a good large bowlful of tomatoes, thats probably one of the last big pickings as the plants are starting to wilt outside now.
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The last two courgettes. When I took one during the week, there were three left. One grew, one didn't and the third rotted.
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The last 2 huge Qld Blue pumpkins :ohmy: :D :D
And some ruby chard for dinner
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A few squash:
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We have; Big Green Pepo, Big Tan Pepo, Butternuts, Little Orange Maxima.
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This is about 1/3 the harvest, but the rest need some more time.
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Wow Rowan that's a fab harvest :D
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Rowan they do look great. Def going to be more adventurous next year as they all look so interesting
Picked last of tomatoes from outside as some had holes in.
Picked 8 sweetcorn to freeze and still some left
2 pumpkins, one small one big
Last 2 courgettes
4 small turnips
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hi all, picked the last of rasp's today,12 parsnips, took 2 blue mushroom trays full of mixed toms, still plenty left, also took a delicata squash roast it 2nite with pumpkin ,red onion, garlic, chilli, parsnip's, sage, parsley, with a mixed tom and sweet pepper and onion sauce :D yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmm.darren ;)
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Yesterday afternoon - a clump of puntarella chicory was picked for tonights' salad
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1 pumpkin 8 sweet banana peppers big bunch of parsley from greenhouse :happy:
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2 Butternuts - one 13.5lb and one 9lb :ohmy: No idea what variety, as the seeds I bought weren't meant to get that big!
a few weeny parsnips and half a pound of cherry toms.
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Not daily harvest but my seasons harvest... (I keep records of pickings on most of my veg)
After seeing the price of runner beans in town I decided to do a harvest record just to see how much I have grown and priced at supermarket prices.. Some estimates are on the lower side!!
Strawberries 40kg = 88punnet @ £2.50 = £225
Broadbeans 6kg @ £1.80 per kg = £11
Peas 6kg @ £2 = £12
Potatoes 90kg @ £1 = £90
Gemsquash 120 @ 50p = £60
Runner beans 30kg @ 6.67 = £200
Courgettes 18kg @ £1.60 = £29
Squashes loads +/- 12 @ £1 = £12
Hubbard squash 4 large @ £4 = £16
Acorn squash 14 @ £1 + £14
Beetroot +/- 25 kg @ £3.3 = £83
Garlic 80 large bulbs @ 50p = £40
Onions 450 @ 20p = £90
Tomatoes loads! 100kg++ @ £2.50 = £250
Sweet corn 180 @ £1 = £180
Damson plums 10kg @ £3 = £30
Leeks 100 = 25 kg @£2.75 = £ 69
Soft fruits/berries 5 kg @ £11 = £55
A few cabbages @£4
Total £1470 Unbelievable!!
Total weight is about 560kg!!!
Costs are difficult but about £20 on fertilizer, £40 on seed, £32 rent and a tenner on seed compost.. The rest was good old fashioned horse stable muck... fresh manure with loads of shavings and some grass.. and a bit of elbow grease to go with it!!
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Not daily harvest but my seasons harvest... (I keep records of pickings on most of my veg)
After seeing the price of runner beans in town I decided to do a harvest record just to see how much I have grown and priced at supermarket prices.. Some estimates are on the lower side!!
Strawberries 40kg = 88punnet @ £2.50 = £225
Broadbeans 6kg @ £1.80 per kg = £11
Peas 6kg @ £2 = £12
Potatoes 90kg @ £1 = £90
Gemsquash 120 @ 50p = £60
Runner beans 30kg @ 6.67 = £200
Courgettes 18kg @ £1.60 = £29
Squashes loads +/- 12 @ £1 = £12
Hubbard squash 4 large @ £4 = £16
Acorn squash 14 @ £1 + £14
Beetroot +/- 25 kg @ £3.3 = £83
Garlic 80 large bulbs @ 50p = £40
Onions 450 @ 20p = £90
Tomatoes loads! 100kg++ @ £2.50 = £250
Sweet corn 180 @ £1 = £180
Damson plums 10kg @ £3 = £30
Leeks 100 = 25 kg @£2.75 = £ 69
Soft fruits/berries 5 kg @ £11 = £55
A few cabbages @£4
Total £1470 Unbelievable!!
Total weight is about 560kg!!!
Costs are difficult but about £20 on fertilizer, £40 on seed, £32 rent and a tenner on seed compost.. The rest was good old fashioned horse stable muck... fresh manure with loads of shavings and some grass.. and a bit of elbow grease to go with it!!
That is very impressive I do the same just my harvest figure in a decimel place out to yours!
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Still picking tomatoes from outside and in the greenhouse.
Two buckets of runner beans
Spinach
Summer cabbage
Nantes carrots
Cucumbers, but small size
Parsley by the bucket load, its done really well of late.
Had a second picking of Brussels sprouts.
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Took some parsley, kale, sweet banana peppers ,and some swiss chard :D
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Wow Rowan that's a fab harvest :D
Thanks DBMG! I'm just waiting for an opportunity to harvest the rest, 2 more butternuts last night but a big harvest still to come tomorrow hopefully!
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Pumpkins, not big and not particularly pretty!
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Last of the yellow wax french beansfrom my chance late sowing- will do that again, and some raspberrys. Think I'll leave the swedes in a bit longer. Getting excited about my PSB beginning to sprout now.
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Dug up the last of my spuds, sarpo miras grown in an unweeded lazy bed. There are lots of hand sized spuds a few with warts but no worse than the rest of my spuds had. While digging them it was so easy to rake out the couch grass. if I have any grass left next year I'll be trying the same technique.
2 large patty pans
3 sweet dumpling squashes
hand full of runner beans
achocha
rocket, lettuce, nasturtiums leaves
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2 yellow courgette - they seem to love the mild, moist weather this October. I find courgette to do well even if it is cloudy every day, as long as the temperatures are mild. I might be able to harvest a few more, even into November. That will be a first for me! :tongue2:
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3 courgette marrows...
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The last of the French beans and (teeny tiny) courgettes plus some lovely tender stem broccoli.
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More kale :wacko: and a large bunch of flat leaf parsley
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Picked the last of the runner beans, just starting to wilt now and the wind is taking its toll on the plants too, so good timing.
Picked a couple of cucumbers, a bowl of tomatoes from the greenhouse. brussels sprouts and a bunch of carrots.
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A few more squash ;)
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Last few sweetcorn, last few small turnips. Leeks still bit small so left bit longer
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A few more squash ;)
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What a haul
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wow spectacular
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What a great haul! photos are fantastic
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Ta everyone :) Tried a few varieties this year, will be cutting back to 2 next year - Butternuts & the little Orange Maxima's.
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Beetroot, Tuscany kale and handfuls of flat leaf parsley :D
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A few more squash ;)
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Oh my! Rowan that is a brilliant haul. how much room do you have to grow so many?
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Hopefully not too OT but, I grew Squash on a whole ½ allotment this year (27mx6m) to try out different varieties etc. I will reduce the space next year, but am aiming for a similar yield (more Moschata (Butternuts).
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Broad beans, borlotti beans (last handful). A mooli radish and some Tuscan kale.
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More salad leaves for my pack ups and collected a butternut squash from the poly to have as a soup!! Yum Yum!
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Harvested the last two hispi cabbages and the last 3 purple top milan turnips.
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hi all just took a few romanesco broccoli, :wub: some kale, 12 big Bulgarian leeks, a stalk of Brussels a few beetroot, and an early spring cabbage, and put some plastic sheeting on greenhouse :D
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last of the beetroot not very big but good size for baby beets got a bit of a surprise put a row of spring onions in what seems forever ago ..forgot about them but was putting a new bed in and they where there nice surprise
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Beetroot, parsnips, leeks, raspberries, squash that I left out to ripen and totally forgot about, dwarf french beans (honest).
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Frost last night so first handful of sprouts, from the bottom up :D
Chard, raspberrys and a couple of medium turnips I'd catch cropped between the sprouts but needed to get out the way.
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The first of the psb, even OH commented on the tenderness. Yum.
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Beetroot,the last few runner beans,carrots,raspberries.
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Leeks, parsnips (post-frost), red pepper from greenhouse and salad leaves.
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Loads of sage leaves, and very pleased with my swede :)
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Loads of sage leaves, and very pleased with my swede :)
So you bloomin' should be! :D
That swede is great :)
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Leeks, fennel, cavolo nero and tatsoi.
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A good picking of brussels sprouts and baby beetroot
Lettuce from the greenhouse
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Kale , kohl rabi , parsnip , carots , and spring onion
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My first Brussel Sprouts...............Ever!
and they were absolutely lovely for dinner.
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7lb beetroot and a lovely cabbage. Now going to boil some for a butty. :D
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My first sprouts and yummy :)
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:D A 6ft seasonal fir tree!!!! (been dying to post that :lol:) was on the plot when I took it on in May.
-It was in the way of my and blocking light on the sunny side of the plot
-It was only going to get bigger and then I'd have a real problem getting it moved....
It came out really easily and fitted into the Merc A class no problem. Left the roots on, will find it a new home in the garden after it's had pride of place out the front if I can keep it going.
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My first ever bunch of Tuscan kale for adding to vegetable soup :)
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A carrier bag full of 'purple top milan' turnips,
7 long leeks,
8 celeriac
a huge tub of Oca
lots of little beetroots
3 small red cabbages
1 teeny swede - very proud! :D
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A carrier bag full of Tuscan kale, a handful of spinach, a few small beetroot (for pickling) and 3 large leeks
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Large cabbage, leeks and parsnips
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A couple of small swede that were sown too late but enough for a meal all the same!!!
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Carrier bag of Tuscan kale, quite a bit of tatsoi, which surprised me that it is still going. It has been great as cut and come again. A smallish swede I planted late.
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Cold frame coriander, pak choi and mizuna greens. And a leek.
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Got fed up waiting to see how my first ever parsnips turned out as I might have to do a quick trip to Lidl instead, so dug them up. Despite 1st lot not germinating, second batch tender and true (chitted + planted late, early June) it's ok for a first go, happy to get anything edible. Certainly will do Christmas day dinner! Got some sprouts whilst I was there (first time with these also), as may not get a chance to get down in fine weather anytime soon...
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off to the plot in the rain, - first chance in weeks to get there - and YES we have some sprouts for Christmas Dinner.
not the hugest - but home grown :)
Grendel
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Sprouts,parsnips,beetroot,leeks ;) All but beetroot gone with son ready to be prepared,cooked & served up for my dinner tomorrow :D
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Today picked some nero kale,leeks,spring cabbage,romanesco broccoli/cauli,swede,for the big day ;)
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Today picked some nero kale,leeks,spring cabbage,romanesco broccoli/cauli,swede,for the big day ;)
forgot the most important Brussel sprouts
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Some oca to have with lunch - loads at the top of the foliage, a bit like walking onions. Never had them there before!
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Leeks, parsnips, beetroot, Brussels.
Doesn't matter that it is almost the same for the last few weeks. I love them all ;)
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Some oca to have with lunch - loads at the top of the foliage, a bit like walking onions. Never had them there before!
I had some Oca tubers at the top of the foliage too! Didn't know what to expect mind you :unsure:
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More leeks more kale and sprouts :D
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Cabbages and carrots, mixed results on carrots. My name is BQ and i cant grow carrots ::)
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Just leeks today. :D
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A couple of small swede and half a dozen leeks which went into a soup. They taste so much better than anything from the supermarket!! Yum Yum :D
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Cabbages and carrots, mixed results on carrots. My name is BQ and i cant grow carrots ::)
We none of us are perfect BQ - I struggle with beetroot ;)
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Cabbages and carrots, mixed results on carrots. My name is BQ and i cant grow carrots ::)
We none of us are perfect BQ - I struggle with beetroot ;)
If only you were closer, we could swap. Lol i can do beetroot hehe
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A head for celery which made soup for lunch; new potatoes and leeks to go with tea; small Chioggia beetroot for pickling whole; white and golden beetroot, parsnips and root parsley for roasting (with a butterbush squash) to go with tea tomorrow.
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golf ball size celeriacs :dry: kale, swede, parsnip and a cabbage from the allotment
Leeks, escarole and radicchio from the garden.
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Two celeriacs (about 4 ins across) and the small beetroot from a late sowing. Red curly kale
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I had some Oca tubers at the top of the foliage too! Didn't know what to expect mind you :unsure:
My 4th year, love them roasted whole or sliced in a curry.