Just a few of the veggies that I picked this evening together with the eggs collected from my hens. The potatoes look a bit scabby though it could be slug damage. However, it comes off when I scrape them.
The only thing missing is the lettuce, cucumber and strawberries which I harvested last night. Most of the strawberries went into the freezer but I took a large tub full to my grandchildren as I was babysitting. I have so many lettuce though that I feed at least a couple to the chickens everyday so it never gets wasted.
Lovely composition, Pauline!
Very nice Pauline - the yellow courgettes add a lovely bit of colour to a meal in my opinion :)
They look fantastic Pauline - bet your grandchildren love it when you take them home grown strawberries. Those lovely eggs - you're so lucky having hens so you can collect your own eggs - sounds like you're almost totally self-sufficient.
Talking of excess lettuce - have you ever made lettuce soup with some of them?
H.P.
wow eggcellent Pauline !!!
i have heard of egg plants but thats ridiculous lol
but on a serious note nice looking produce
carl
Pauline, I think the first potato, middle left, is slightly out of line! ;) Otherwise that's one fab crop gal! ;D
G x
fabulous - wish I had some chucks
Quote from: Hot_Potato on July 04, 2006, 20:56:53
They look fantastic Pauline - bet your grandchildren love it when you take them home grown strawberries. Those lovely eggs - you're so lucky having hens so you can collect your own eggs - sounds like you're almost totally self-sufficient.
Talking of excess lettuce - have you ever made lettuce soup with some of them?
H.P.
My grandchildren are 4 and 1½ and I have never seen so many strawberries eaten in one sitting! Talk about seconds, thirds and fourth helpings ::) .... and that was just my son, grandson and I. ;D Anya, the baby, is just getting the hang of feeding herself and is very slow. By the time she had scooped out all her strawberries and cream there weren't any left for her to have seconds and you should have seen her quizzical face as she scanned the table to look for more. Poor Anya. :(
I used to make lettuce soup many moons ago and like many other things in life, got out of the habit of doing it. I must make some again, but like everything else, it is the time to do these things. I am overrun with weeds at the moment (shaggy soldiers again ::)) and have to get them all out before they set seed. I am too late with some of the thistles and have one in my garden that is over 8 feet high. >:(
Are they runner beans??? And so jealous of your courgettes! Fabulous harvest. A perfect still life!
Good harvest Pauline. Have to admit that the only things out of that lot that I have ready to harvest are potatoes. Survicing on potatoes, cabbage and lettuce at the mo. Waiting for everything else.
!!! just relooked at the picture - Pauline what is the green round thing in the centre please ??
What a harvest pauline! Very impressed by your courgettes, all my first lot perished and the second lot have three leaves ;) Lovely eggs too, they look as if they might be still warm :D
Quote from: EJ - Emma Jane on July 04, 2006, 21:59:22
Are they runner beans??? And so jealous of your courgettes! Fabulous harvest. A perfect still life!
They are runner beans and climbing Blue Lake French beans.
Quote from: mc55 on July 04, 2006, 22:04:50
!!! just relooked at the picture - Pauline what is the green round thing in the centre please ??
That is a courgette de Nice Ronde. The seeds do not get mature until the fruit is very big so the fruit can be sliced and eaten when fairly large. They are good for stuffing too. The insides can be scraped out and fried with mince or other vegetables and then all piled back inside and cooked in the oven. ;D
Well, it all looks so deelish, Pauline. Congratulations. Can't believe I'm so very behind. My courgettes, runner and French beans are nowhere near producing. Must get sowing earlier next year.
Lovely harvest there Pauline. :)
Strawberries never last long in this house either. The only thing to go quicker are blueberries, so I'm hoping the four bushes I put in at the allotment will save me a small fortune this (and subsequent) year.
Pauline. good enough to eat!! Loverley jubberley!
Lorna
Quote from: Jill on July 05, 2006, 00:36:29
Well, it all looks so deelish, Pauline. Congratulations. Can't believe I'm so very behind. My courgettes, runner and French beans are nowhere near producing. Must get sowing earlier next year.
A-ha Jill, you'll be the happy one gorging when everyone else's are finished ;) I have just sown some more runners, and will sow more French beans in the next few days. Succession!