Topic: Lottie newbie's 1st harvest

[Jill]

Hope to do better next year but here's a selection.



And many thanks for the 'How to post an image' instructions Gavin - 1st time I've used my webspace :)

[Mrs Ava]

Do better!  How for goodness sakes!!!!!  ;D  That tray looks amazing.  Bet you are well chuffed!!  Keep those photos coming!

[Pixie]

absolute fab buch of veg!!!!!!! :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)

If mine looks that good after my first year on the lottie I will be dead chuffed

Sam

[aquilegia]

it all looks fantastic! Well done!

A whole meal's worth there, easily - and a big meal at that!

my mouth is watering at thoughts of leek and potato soup, followed by salad with tomatoes, raw carrot, lettuce, red onion, then stir fried courgette and runners with onion and sweetcorn and butter on the side. All you need to buy is the butter. I wish I had a harvest like that!

PS - what's the white-ish thing above the beans?

[Jill]

Thanks a lot all :-[.  Shucks.  How to do better: dig beds in time so shallots have time to grow, earth up leeks, plant proper carrots instead of the stunted ones that son no.1 picked, spray potatoes to avoid the blight that got them this year, etc, etc.  Raspberries have been biggest success and I inherited those ;D.  I'm definitely a lottie (and A4A) convert tho'.  Love those veggies!

[aquilegia]

nah - don't be silly.

non-earthed up leeks = pot leeks
non-sprayed potatoes = organic
non-stunted carrots = full of character!

[tim]

A masterpiece - keep painting! = Tim

[Merete]

Sniff - everything ripe at once...

Right now, the potatoes are tiny, but very tasty, the green and yellow French beans are stunning, the sweet peas are stunted, but good, the turnips are good - but carrots, leeks, salad onions, assorted brassicas (I'm SO proud that I managed both broccoli and cauliflowers from seed, the other brassicas are said to be easier), my one tomato plant and pak choi are nowhere near ready. We've been eating lettuce and ruccola for months, but NOTHING looks quite as good as this selection.

Well done - I'm envious!

[Grant]

agree any better you may look like a proffesional

[ina]

Gold medal for you! So pretty exhibited too, nice picture, nice everything.

[Yuet_Lee]

Well done Jill.
Mine onion were crab. They gone rotten before I pull them up. Cauil were nothing comeup at all. Mine sugar snag are doing very well very sweet. And all my chinese veg were doing very well. I'll try harder next year.
 Yuet                          

[Andy H]

 :D Great aint it, 1st full year of plot and picking and digging like mad.
177lb spuds 55lb onions 12.5lb rhubarb 8lb7 rasps
26lb peas 8 jars beetroot 19 goosberry jam
34lb marrow 53lb runners 51 sweetcorn
loads more to come...

[Yuet_Lee]

Hi Andy H
How many people are you feeding? Do you have a big big freeze for them all? How big is your allotment? Well done!!!

[Andy H]

Got 2 allotments! trying to get a 3rd one further away from vandals! want to use half plot to grow pumpkin next year! Put all the stuff that needs less water on the plot furthest from the tap and loads of manure on the one easiest to empty the trailer! Lots of manure on a weed riden plot not used for 5 years and it does wonders, stables are desperate to get rid of the stuff! Didn`t know so much stuff grew on a little bit of ground! Lots less in the tesco`s trolley now!