This week I have dug up the last of my parsnips and some leeks from the lotty, rocket and radishes (poor) from the greenhouse (unheated) and kale, chard and herbs from the veg plot. A decent haul but it could be so much more. What's everyone else harvesting?
I have about one more picking of brussel sprouts, loads of white sprouting brocolli, couple of cabbages, there looks like 2 caulis coming, red kale, chard bright lights, have about 8 leeks left and a few swedes and turnips. Not bad for this time of year.
The only winter veg I grow are celeriac and leeks - of which there are still two of the former and 7 of the latter waiting to be needed in the kitchen! I'll have to use them up soon though as it won't be long before I need the space.
Tricia
Purple sprouting brocolli
Only got Leeks left to pull now about 25 still waiting for a Steam bath.... ;)
Gazza
leeks, red cabbage, and some calabrese that survived the winter in a pot by the garage. Do alfalfa sprouts count?
Leeks, PSB, calabrese/ Kale, Brussels, Parsnips. Also got some white lisbon onions were taking every now and then.
We also use the leaves of our calabrese/ psb and sprout plants - strong tasting but invaluable in the depths of winter!! ;)
Plenty of leeks still, bucket of parsnips now indoors because I need the ground, and a few still in the ground elsewhere. Purple broccoli and white broccoli starting to sprout. Spinach. Sorrel.
Fragments of kale, and I mean to grow much more of everything cabbagey this year.
Lots of parsley and 3 cornered garlic and wild garlic.
Microgreens - a gutter of mixed lettuce seed - the seeds spilled out and got mixed up, and I didn't want to waste them, so there is a nice froth of bright green seedlings to snip at, plus a longer gutter of carefully spaced seedlings nearly ready to prick out in coldframe.
Stored dried beans of various types.
Several clumps of rocket overwintered this year, and no sign of going to seed yet, so we're nibbling at a few leaves of that....the sorrel that I thought I'd dug out at last has bounced back - and the asparagus has broken cover, should have a tiny feast by next weekend!
Your asparagus is up!?! Envy. Looking forward to mine in about a month's time......
Leeks, savoys, red cabbage from store, PSB. A bit of celery to salvage, kale (nero) and some Babington leeks (stronger flavour and no "fly" damage.. the bulbs make a good garlic substitute) and the sorrel and garlic mustard are putting out new salad leaves.. :)
PSB, masses of curly kale, leaf beet, leeks, carrots, potatoes [from garage..] chard in poly, parsley etc.. glad daughter coming tomorrow to help eat it all ;)
red mustard, mizuna, lamb's lettuce and early slald leaves with a couple of walking onions as springies, parsnips and swede from store, red sprouts and leeks and, I hope when we go tomorrow, some sprouting broccoli.
kales
spring cabbage
parsnip
corn salad
lettuce
endives
spinach
psb
thyme
oregano
spring onions
garlic chives
onions
elephant garlic
still eating sauerkraut, braised red cabbage, dehydrated potatoes turnip etc also stored hunter squashes, frozen beans, bottled tomatoes
oh tbh, I can`t cook it all quickly enough. I need the space inside and out, ready for the rhubarb season and then it is all systems go all over again, re preserving and eating. We`re certainly going to have enough for the hungry gap, apart from carrots
Wow! you guys have loads of things! I am into the planting and sowing now and only winter things are a few leeks and just getting some delicious white sprouting broccoli (which was a happy mistake!). I have no protection up so nothing else can survive here in the winter. Waiting for a couple of Durham early cabbages to get big enough to eat, two survived.
Thanks to the mild winter, like starwberry1 I have lots to eat, which is as it should be, because it will be late June before this year's plants provide a full complement of vegetables. In addition to some of the above I also have land cress, perpetual onion and salad burnet.
SPROUTS! Am not going to plant so many this year!
Quote from: shirlton on March 17, 2012, 06:43:18
Purple sprouting brocolli
me too, plus few cabbages
are we talking about indoor or outdoor harvesting?
I'm on my last knocking of Kestrel Spuds, this is by far the longest they have lasted me, I'm aiming for the whole year this season. ;D
Broccoli and Brussel Sprouts
We will have a potato and bean curry today with green beans and sliced tomatoes from the freezer, and we still have a fair few curry ingredients left for other days. Still eating green tomato sauce, various chutneys, jam, and bottled plums.
Lunch today will be good bread with steamed purple sprouting broccoli.
We also have some leeks left for a few more Ma Po and I am please that the Welsh Leeks are plentiful enough so that we can substitute them for the spring onions in the recipe.
Oh and there are a couple of squashes left that will be OK for roasting, risotto, pie, or soup. I finally worked out a place to store them indoors :) away from too much heating.
Our first full year at the allotment has given us much pleasure.
Cabbage and I still have four squashes left in storage.
Still got 1/2 a bag of desiree, few shoots on them but they're still useable, plus a couple of swede and some leeks. New salad leaves and walking onions going strong ;D
Our first full year at the allotment has given us much pleasure.
Reading at your list of things to eat...it does sound like you have done well and getting pleasure out of it. Just wait what the second full year at the lottie will bring along.. ;) ;D..even better!
Quote from: Poolcue on March 25, 2012, 08:54:49
Broccoli and Brussel Sprouts
Unfortunately PSB, overwintering lettuce, cress, some kale and endives died in the last bout of severe frost, but rocket, red mustard, newly sown cress, lambs lettuce and mispoona are doing well.
Turnip tops surprisingly came through winter under a cloche and are a welcome kale substitute now. Even half the chard perished in the cold spell, never seen that before. But there is plenty of rocket, the transplanted lettuces will soon be available for picking leaf by leaf and the black winter radishes have kept going well under cloches. There is still a good amount of squash on the windowsill. Tromboncino, Todo el Ano (with a tilde over the n, otherwise apparently the name is rude), Sweet Meat and one Buttercup are still unblemished. And I am using a lot of garlic too, as last year's harvest was good.
Very inspiring to see everybody's list. We need a 'refresher' for this thread when it comes to sowing overwintering veg from late July to September. And a reminder to fleece PSB and kales just in case we get a third very cold winter.