I just wondered what are your 'Top of the Crops' you are picking at the moment?
Mine are,
Peas, New potatoes, cherry tomatoes and the first pickings of Runner beans. Yum yum yum :sunny:
Courgettes, courgettes and more courgettes. Runner beans not ready yet, but this rain should help them along.
Courgettes, broccoli, raspberries, gooseberries, blackcurrants and broadbeans.
Raspberries and courgettes - loads!
courgettes - lovely Striata D'Italia (thank you goodlife for seeds!), yellow Parador and dark green ones. French beans just starting, runners only just getting flower buds. Watching the onions like a hawk so I can whip them up and plant other stuff.
Carrots, primo cabbage, celery, sugar snaps, spuds and loads and loads of mini cucumbers. And plums but they are from a mates plot!
In fact I am just about hitting peak production in that I haven't got time to eat everything!
First carrots, enough broad beans for us and the freezer. Potatoes, the first courgettes. Loads of peas. The sprouting broccoli have produced another bowlful after the last rain. Jayb, did you say 'crop' (singular) of the week?
No runnerbeans yet (but I have tiny beanies so won't be long), no tomatoes yet, one cucumber that I could have harvested, but only one so far. French beans have started flowering, so not long now.
The most pleasure this week was probably harvesting the first yellow straightneck courgettes. A couple of large ones fried and a couple of small ones sliced thinly in salad.
Raspberries, loganberries, mangetout peas, the last of the mispoona, chard, mixed lettuce.
Lots of rasps this year, which is great because I love them.
Broad beans only at the moment.
Quote from: caroline7758 on July 10, 2014, 21:55:41
Broad beans only at the moment.
Lucky you :toothy10: I didn't get around to sowing broadies this year, they are always one of my favourites!
broad beans, raspberries, autumn planted onions and 2nd early potatoes
Potatoes, red & black currants & a few blackberries & blueberries. Tasted a tiny courgette that had dropped off last night. Lots of lettuce & spinach too.
Jealous about the courgettes! All squash family don't like my site, still waiting for my first one.
Raspberries - loads of big juicy ones in the garden. And peas. Now it's raining loads - even coriander! Yay!
Chard, spinach and a white beetroot today. The beetroot was lovely, very sweet and crunchy.
I haven't had much luck with courgettes before, I don't think they like my heavy clay. Through lack of room I put three plants in huge pots full of manure and nothing else and despite me starting them late they are looking good, with 4-5 true leaves open and a lot of tiny flower buds forming. I hope they get huge, I love courgettes!
New potatoes, cauli, carrots, Kohl Rabi, gooseberries... but hands down it's the cherries.... :wave:
Raspberries , blackcurrants , onions and curly kale :blob7:
potatoes,onions, peas,( well what the birds left me)Beetroot, Broad beans , runners courgettes,lettuce, rocket, khol rabbi, french beans.blackcurrants,red currant.cucumber.
I tend to share as cant eat most of it, and dont have enough room in freezer.
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cucumbers, runner beans, potatoes and today the first toms should have a had some new carrots but the seedlings just disappeared
We're eating home grown onions, garlic, potatoes, peas, mangetout, broad beans, runner beans (two varieties), French beans, tenderstem broccoli, yellow and green courgettes, marrow, lettuce, mustard, rocket, radishes, gooseberries, rhubarb, tayberries, strawberries, and a few blackcurrants and raspberries. Most of it is just starting but this is where the eating begins!
Top of the list for me again are Runner Beans :blob7: Also loving apricots and new potatoes.
Peas! Also more chard and beetroot and mispoona and a few potatoes. Just starting to see tiny pods on my climbing French beans so I'm very much looking forward to eating them soon.
My dad sampled some of my Telephone peas raw the other day, straight off the plant. He really liked them, which surprised me considering that he's usually super-critical of my "weird" growing methods (organic square foot gardening, seed saving, etc) and my tendency to go for old-fashioned interesting varieties as well as unusual newer ones.
He doesn't get why I don't grow the same short peas everyone else grows, in rows miles apart in a garden full of dodgy chemicals. A few weeks ago he told me my lovely tall peas are "too tall to be only just making pods", when they are perfectly normal. But apparently he can't argue with the taste of Telephone!