I picked loads of blackberries, grow wild on our allotment. 1 cucumber, 1 lettuce, 4 courgettes, which I managed to give away to newcomer at the allotments. French beans, runners very slow coming. Eat a few raspberries, but we need some rain soon. 2 tiny tomatoes, but more to come.
Lots of cucs and courgettes.... Tomatoes and Aubergines tomorrow! Lettuce whenever... :wave:
Runner beans, French beans, 2 small courgettes, pounds of tomatoes...and my first Minipop sweetcorn!
Runner beans tomatoes cucumbers and peppers going to pick some blackberries on the plot tomorrow
Victoria plums, french beans,tomatoes,blackberries, courgettes. All good crops this year
Runners this evening... and a few mulberries and gages to graze on. Rasps too, but the figs weren't ready, although we had two at the weekend... :wave:
Only my nose at the the mo. :tongue3:
Latah tomatoes, the first outdoor Katja tomato, and some Greek basil.
A Greek salad was made, and it was amazing. ;)
Raspberry, blackberry, pink currants, and red currants and apples/
Two lovely cauli... and a couple of figs to go with the mulberries and gages... :wave:
apricots beetroot runner beans french beans toms lettuce a cabbage 6 courgettes chillis peppers and a kuri kuri squash ;plus a load of soft fruit spring onions oh and some carrots
It's great this time of year isn't it! :wave:
Spuds at the weekend and Two Strawberrys today. :blob7:
Sweetcorn raspberries and cucumber !
Runner beans, tomatoes and apples quite good for apples this year
big amount of tomatoes
Oh many, many things were picked today. After all it is September. Tomatoes, pears, apples, plums, noshed on a couple of blackberries, cucumber, chives, carrots, chard, courgette, runner beans, French beans and a couple of crosnes. A couple of winter squashes. Food stashed in the freezer and in jars. This is definitely the month of gluts. Yum! :wave:
Nothing, it rained All Day!
My dehydrator's chugging away though - should have dried tomatoes by morning. :icon_cheers:
Cabbage,sweet and chilli peppers and lettuce.
As I am away for a while, I went cropping for veg to take with us, potatoes, onions, courgettes, cucumbers, summer squash, tomatoes from the greenhouse and some sweetcorn. Loads of cobs ready so they are now stripped and in the freezer, just in case they spoil when we are away. I did pick a load of weeds too, but I expect their children will pop up in their place for when we get back.
Leeks and cauliflower to eat, potato berries to harvest for seeds.
After two weeks holiday, LOADS of beans, raspberries, some good carrots, kale, broccoli and good-sized courgettes. Too tired to tackle the weeds and couldn't get my strimmer started, so all that will have to wait!
More cooking apples, help, I need help. Left loads at the allotment and some have gone to good homes, best go knocking on the neighbours doors and make a few pies. Shame my pastry is such rubbish, but will have a go later. :BangHead: A few raspberries, but not as good as last year, and runner beans absolute rubbish. Courgettes still coming. Meant to do some weeding, digging, but talked to the fox and my friendly robin and anyone else on the allotment that wanted to chat, lovely sunny day.
I'm growing two types of sweetcorn this year, one lot (Swift) on deep manure, the other (Incredible) topdressed but with a protective plastic surround to keep the foxes off.
All the Swift were ready to be harvested yesterday, but the Incredible corn are still white inside the cobs, nowhere near ready! They were planted at the same time.
I'm going to keep them going for a bit longer to see if I can get them to ripen, but they are in the area I have planned for the overwintered alliums, so they will have to be removed in the next month at the latest.... :BangHead:
I picked these;
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Beef tomatoes and some Big Jim chillies which are ripe for making chilli jam or cooking.
Curried fish tonight so I'll be picking some cavolo nero later to cook with cumin seeds and garlic and some beetroot to cook with toms and previously harvested red onions.
Courgettes, runners, tomaotoes, chillies, aubergines, rasps, blackberries, damsons and still getting some figs... :toothy10:
a fork full of chartonney red core
Yesterday now but I found loads of surprise potatoes in my nursery bed. I new there were some plants that must have come from a wee spud of two left behind from last year's harvest but they've produced a whole 15 x 12 x 10 box full of potatoes. Had the ones that didn't fit in it for dinner last night.
Also collected and cleaned the pumpkins - very few this year as it's been so hot and dry here - picked damsons and started some jam and we have beetroot, cavolo nero and kale and radicchio still to crop and PSB ready to go out in a sunny spot. Had to bin the broccoli though as it had all blown in the last few warm, sunny days.
Yesterday I picked Carolus potatoes and lots of cauliflowers!
Quote from: Jayb on October 01, 2015, 11:58:30
Yesterday I picked Carolus potatoes and lots of cauliflowers!
cauliflowers they are my nemises in london no problem clay soil here clacton-on-sea sandy soil its really hard however today i picked chillis sweet peppers courgette butternut squash runner beans beetroot french bean sweetcorn oh and 2 types of lettuce and a bucket load of tomatoes
Just a bowl of raspberries and a few green beans.
Took the dogs for a walk round the huge field behind me which has grown spuds this year after spotting last Friday that there were loads left lying around and bringing home what I could carry in my two hands. They're probably Bintje's - classic Belgian spud for baking, chipping and mashing. Had great mashed spuds with lamb stew on Saturday. Now I have a sink full of large potatoes soaking in the sink to remove excess mud and then will store them in a large paper bag that used to hold bird seed.
In my own garden I've picked the last of the radicchio for OH's salads this week and will bring in some toms later. Cucs all finished now. Cavolo Nero and Kale still there for harvesting and some beetroots ready too. Might have to cloche the fennel and kohl rabi.
If you want to store potatoes the last thing you should do is wash them.
The ones in the field by us stink. They spray the field with something before harvesting and it makes the tubers unusable for anyone else.
Picked over 100 kilos of Catshead apples and ditto Ashmead's Kernel.
Heaven knows what we will do with them. No neighbours to give them to either.
I wondered about that Palustris but I needed to see which were wounded/bashed or green already. They'll get a thorough frying and then be stored in paper.
A couple of aubergines and four figs, probably the last of both and a carrier bag of tomatoes as we are going away for a week... :wave:
Yesterday, a bowl of strawberries, the first of the celeriac, carrots and a cauliflower.
Some ripe Incredible sweetcorn at last! :blob7:
Potatoes, two types of Kale,couple of bell peppers, few hot Thai ones and a lot of tomatoes. XX Jeannine
Three pumpkins. A bit small this year but it has been a funny year for curcubits. Will go down tomorrow and get the rest.
We also had a first picking of kale, just the one type though - we had some caterpillar damage earlier, but they have put on so much growth since and we really wanted to eat some of the nice new leaves. Squash for storing and also tomatoes. Made tomato sauce - 6 jars, recipe said 7 - ah well. So added one jar of dilly beans (pickled beans). Two small hot peppers added to the sauce and now it is pretty hot. I only wanted to give it a bit of zing! Certainly the peppers got very strong this year. :wave:
Raspberries, apples, pears, tomatoes (Crimson Crush, Pomodoro, Sungold) and chillies.
Tricia :wave:
Cauliflower, red cabbage, apples and some not so very sweet grapes.
swwetcorn butternuts comice pears red winsor apples cobra apples potatoes carrots swede first cape gooseberrys tomatoes and lettuce oh and runner beans and raspberries
Just back from 10 days away so not sure what I expected when I got the plot. However the toms still look free from blight bar a couple of plants - so I picked about 15 lbs of ripe toms and more again of unripe ones! The late sweetcorn is also looking great so had a few of those, took home most of the Kuri squash, a couple of beetroot, celery, cabbage and some carrots.
Makes for an interesting super..
And a pound of chillies! :blob7: :blob7:
carrots raspberries lettuce so more cobra apples some long horn peppers and some chillis and toms
Runners and French beans, a white cabbage and a bag full of kale which we are dehydrating
Last of my potatoes, some nice big Kestrels, and the rest of the 'Incredible' sweetcorn.......
Yesterday, tried to sort out some good cooking apples to leave for allotment people to take, which they have been doing. I hate waste. Gave some courgettes to next door, some eating apples and some raspberries. The raspberries seem to taste a bit sour, they were late this year, but the rain and sun lately as bought them on, have loads and loads in the freezer and loads of jam. Picked two sweetcorn which was good when cooked but pale yellow, not like the supermarket ones. I planted it late but seemed OK when cooked. A few French beans, runner beans rubbish this year. Did some digging but disappointed that my friendly robin did not turn up for the worms. Hope he is OK. Tried to weed the strawberry bed, but the grass is everywhere and long roots. Was the only person up there yesterday, not sure if we will be moving next year, so will really miss it if we do. Sorry off topic again.
A bag of runners to give to colleagues at work
A fair amount of saffron (small amount of swearing when the wind caught the tissue I was folding it into), probably the last aubergines, tomatoes, and picked half the squashes for ripening in the greenhouse for a bit.
Dug up some spuds and picked a squash on the lottie
Picked Tommies in the back garden. :happy7:
took the rest of my squash, took down the tomatoes and have a huge bag of under ripe fruit, dug up the last of the spuds, grabbed a sweed, some carrots and a parsnip for diner. It was a lovely day for in London but feels very autumnal today..
I thought I,d cleared away all the courgettes and cucumbers.......but no ....there lying on the ground was one more beautiful cucumber ! :blob7:
Starting to harvest kales now, they have put on so much growth that they will get through winter even though I am picking a bit now. I had a caterpillar attack earlier, but the new growth of lush leaves has hidden any evidence of that. The perennial kales are nearly as tall as I am. As most of the leaves are fairly new they are tender and lovely to eat.
The second sowing of lettuce is coming into its own now, but will have to be cloched soon. Together with cress and landcress and late tomatoes we are still eating lovely salads. The rocket wasn't recovering from its fleabeetle attack as fast as I'd like, but we are now getting non-lacy leaves too, must be too cold for the beasties now. This one normally comes through winter without cloche.
Picked the first celeriac. Not huge, but the flavour is out of this world. The celery has put on a lot of fresh growth with the recent damp weather. I will plant a clump in the greenhouse over winter just as insurance, but in the last several years it has overwintered in the ground just fine.
There are still beans to harvest, but some of the bean plants have been touched by frost. Not the beans, just the leaves. I will be struggling to get a lot of seed for my HSL contribution, will have to fleece the whole wigwam and hope. Unfortunately I had a late start this year. Most of the other bean varieties have done well even so. It is interesting which ones were touched by frost. Because we often get late frosts in May and even early June, it seems the plants from my own seeds have acquired some resistance, or rather any that were particularly prone to frost damage, did not make it in the first place. Frost must have been touch and go, but several new-to-me varieties have withered hanging leaves right next to leaves from other varieties which still look perfect.
Squash leaves have gone, apart from one that is surrounded by fast growing chickweed (chickweed is like green manure ?!) Seems my weeding laziness has protected that squash plant, although I am not expecting much more growth. Squash fruits have not been touched by frost. I am taking them to cure in the conservatory. Wish we'd get a bit of sun to help cure them. The only one still growing is the tromboncino trained upright next to an active compost dalek. Currently 5 little trombos are still growing lower down, nestled up to the dalek. Won't grow to full size, but will keep us in 'courgettes' for a little white longer.
:wave:
Cleared the runner beans today and have a trug full of beans, some dried and others hardened, which we will use for beanburgers. Dug trench and filled it with manure so all ready for runner beans in 2016.
Pink Fir Apple. I didn't plant them: they were in the courgette bed! Always make me chuckle! :happy7:
This morning I have picked apples for a crumble ......I was going to pick some rhubarb ....but alas ..it has collapsed with these clear skies and cold nights . Lovely blue skies here again today though :sunny:
The last courgette, and runner beans. A purple cauli and some rocket. :wave:
just back from lottie brought this little lot back with me
Blackberries , a few more apples and a couple of asparagus shoots ( very surprised to find ! ) :happy7:
Quote from: woodypecks on October 27, 2015, 12:24:22
Blackberries , a few more apples and a couple of asparagus shoots ( very surprised to find ! ) :happy7:
Asparagus this time of year? Clearly it must feel like spring to them. I have been picking autumn olive berries and was surprised that one of the bushes has started flowering again - similar sort of thing I guess.
Lots of apples and pears, really good year for apples :sunny:
Also chard, carrots, lettuce, beans and celeriac for dinner.
I picked the last runner beans yesterday. I'm reasonably certain I have never picked runners in November before!
Plus some Blue Danube taters (unfortunately they turn out to boil to slop - we may be eating mash until they are done), some cabbage greens, and cleared out the one cayenne pepper and the one Prairie Fire.
Adrian
Quote from: gray1720 on November 02, 2015, 09:55:43
I picked the last runner beans yesterday. I'm reasonably certain I have never picked runners in November before!
I got fed up with beans so I just let them go to seed. But November and I keep thinking of pulling out the toms from the green house. Every time I go in I find a few more to pick and they have started flowering again.
my blight resistant toms are still going strong and there outdoors picked 3 today outdoor tomatoes in nov now thats a first for me
Finished picking old dried runner beans today, podded them, drying off on a big plate. Gorgeous in casseroles and soups. Have to admit not much else apart from sorrel and chard, parsley and mint and lettuce reaching for the skies.
Quote from: johhnyco15 on November 02, 2015, 20:53:38
my blight resistant toms are still going strong and there outdoors picked 3 today outdoor tomatoes in nov now thats a first for me
Same here. Galina's, Helsing Junction Blue and Latah are still producing the odd tomato. This was not the best year to trial blight resistant tomatoes. But they are definitely coming to an end now naturally and I am removing plants just to get the tidying up done.
Also still harvesting beans and just a few pods from the second sowing of peas. Chard, kale, leeks, sprouting broccoli, celery and celeriac all still going strong. Late sown lettuce is so good now and rocket, cress and landcress also go in out salads together with the last tommies. I sowed turnips very late after the early potatoes had been dug up, expecting some nice spring greens, but they are now developing good roots, will pull those soon too. :wave:
Dug up some Muddy Cara.
I just had a proper dinner of home-grown asparagus!
The foliage on my patch had gone yellow and started to die back ... and underneath the ferns was a quite decent crop of slightly blanched spears coming up from the base! In November!
So I did the only decent thing and cooked them ... they were never going to help the plant at this time of year.
Last of the giant kestrel spuds. And bind weed. Does bind weed count?
Only if you eat it.
last of my outdoor tomatoes
I'm still picking "outdoor tomatoes" from my poly tunnel... but today's surprise was a cauli ... "I wasn't expecting that".. but just tidying up in the brassica tunnels while the nets were off for bonfire night!
Picked the last courgettes this morning, some red spring onions, three heads of crisp lettuce and also bought home two nicely ripened pumpkins I had been hardening off in the greenhouse. Oh, and three chunky pot leeks for tonight's tea!
I was planning on planting my garlic snd shallots, but it's just too wet and warm....it was 16 degrees on the drive home!
Yesterday I picked the last of the Runners, for dried beans, and also 3 dozen Padron Peppers, 2 large cabbages and my largest cauliflower I've ever grown!
Picked some tomatoes outside. Quite amazing it is nearly the middle of November!!!
The last of my Braeburn apples.
Tricia
Even more apples! Pixie, James Grieve, and Christmas Pippin. Sugar snap peas growing in a big tub on the driveway. Sweetcorn (!).
More tomatoes, Naga chillies, a purple cauli, carrots and beetroot... and some spinach beet..
Nothing yet, but I'm going down for some more Egremont Russet in a bit.
Dug up some more cara, some biguns too.
I picked Kale shoots , they are just forming flower shoots which I use like sprouting broccoli.
XX Jeannine
Today I harvested perennial kale, dandelions, ground elder, a length of bramble stem, sticky weed, hawthorn, and fresh grass.
Most of that doesn't sound very tasty but I can assure you that my rabbits enjoyed it very much! ;)
Can't wait for more stuff to grow so I can go on foraging walks again. The bunnies love "wild" food and it's really good for them, and I really like collecting it for them.
Rocket, cress, kale and kale shoots (do we have the same kale Jeannine?) also leeks and four cornered leek. Also ate a celeriac and squash and some potatoes from store. :wave:
Hi Galina, I only have a Red Russian and Lacinto this year... I say Red Russian but actually I have grown it from my own seed for so long with other types very close it is probably a bit off, anyway it works well for me. The Lacinto is a commercial variety. Usually I pull the leaves off the RR unless I need the seed, but I let the Lacinto grow on and use it's shoots so it doesn't flower.. I have two RR plants at the moment whose stems have gone over to the ground and I noticed today that they had rooted in. They were in pretty tight actually so I am unsure whether to pull them out like I usually do . Any ideas? Maybe I have a RR perennial on the horizon LOL.
XX
Oh and snipped a bit of young garlic greens today too, it goes nicely in a salad and never seems to make any difference to my garlic.. just a bit mind!
Quote from: Jeannine on March 24, 2016, 23:41:10
Hi Galina, I only have a Red Russian and Lacinto this year... I say Red Russian but actually I have grown it from my own seed for so long with other types very close it is probably a bit off, anyway it works well for me. The Lacinto is a commercial variety. Usually I pull the leaves off the RR unless I need the seed, but I let the Lacinto grow on and use it's shoots so it doesn't flower.. I have two RR plants at the moment whose stems have gone over to the ground and I noticed today that they had rooted in. They were in pretty tight actually so I am unsure whether to pull them out like I usually do . Any ideas? Maybe I have a RR perennial on the horizon LOL.
XX
Oh and snipped a bit of young garlic greens today too, it goes nicely in a salad and never seems to make any difference to my garlic.. just a bit mind!
I have this kale but I am not entirely sure of its identification. Only one plant survived the first winter and is now pretty huge and I think in its third year. The leaves look a little like cavalo nero and the flowers are white. It has been producing broccoli like shoots for months now, very handy indeed. The adult leaves are good but I am leaving them alone mostly, because the Daubentons have just started producing a few new leaves. Last year I picked all the flowering kale shoots off it and it grew massively during summer and now has a 2 1/2 inch dia stem and many branches off it. Will definitely root a few cuttings and just wish I knew what it was for sure. I use it similarly to the way you use your Lacinato.
Yes, green garlic. Very yummy. for some reason I always find a few missed garlics - this year even in a place where I had garlic 2 years ago! Nothing there last year! And that is so nice, snipped over a piece of meat or over fried egg last minute. It is good when the garden produces in winter too. When there is always something to take and cook with. :sunny:
Hi Galina, oh my goodness how exciting, I am sorry I can't help you identify it for you maybe it is a Lacinto that has just adapted to you like my RR. There are so many kales but I find the Lacinto seems to be on it's own. There are many that look like the Red Russian< I have a catalogue in front of me and there are 4 that look like RR. In fact looking at them I can see mine is a cross as the leaves are much more toothed and lacey than the true Red Russian.
I envy you with your Daubentons, if you remember I tried very hard to get a perennial garden going and I did it but we moved and the community garden was just too far for me to go with Joh so I lost the lot. I sowed the Daubenton seeds from the HSL catalogue last wek and some have germinated so I am thrilled about that, and then I saw a tiny bit of green poking out of a pot I had put nine star in so another thrill. Sadly the perennial leeks and potato onions etc were all lost.
Here I have 5 3 foot x 8 foot raised beds 2 feet high but they are a tad shaded, then I have a great greenhouse in the sun so I am OK there, after that I have gravel areas I can put large pots on so with all of that I think I will have enough to play with. It is always a tough choice though and of course my beloved squash and corn don't get too much chance. I miss having the space to do my potatoes and some nice big brassicas bit I can manage.
You have me curious now, I wonder what your kale is.
You didn't get one from Real Seeds did you. My Lacinto looks a bit like a palm tree right now and they had one that was described like that, I have it and I think it is called Paul and Becky's or something like that. I love a mystery to solve.
Hows things generally with you and yours. I am so out of touch with everyone.
Galina I will let one flower shoot bloom and see what colour the flowers are.
XX Jeannine
http://turtletreeseed.org/product/176-lacinato-kale/
You've got me searching Jeannine and the above photo of a mature Lacinato kale plant looks very similar to my kale. Yes I'd be very interested to know what colour your flowers are.
I know for sure that I have not bought seeds under this name. I have a vague memory of having got seeds called 'Westfalian' kale or 'Asparagus' kale from HSL and it could be that one, but for some reason I failed to make an entry in my garden book on planting out and then lost the label. Very annoying because this kale is definitely one of the longer living varieties, tricky to get through the first winter (only one plant), but so many broccoli type shoots last year and tons in 2016 too and many more to come. In fact we are currently on the side-shoots, all the main shoots were harvested weeks ago. For a kale that seemed a bit tricky to get through the first winter, it has redeemed itself wonderfully.
I will take cuttings to continue because the main plant may not make another year. :wave:
I forgot the celery - this has also come through winter. I have started growing celery as a perennial from the tiny plants that emerge at the base of a plant that has flowered and my oldest clump is now 3 years old. When we had the warmer winter conditions the celery responded with loads of new stalks, but at the moment it has all stalled again. Still, there is useful picking for salads, together with the endive and lambs lettuce from the greenhouse and rocket and landcress which has just gone crazy. Similar thing with the spring onions - some shot up and even had flower buds earlier in the year, these I removed and we used them in the cooking and now everything has slowed down again but there is a little for picking and some chives as well. :icon_cheers:
Glaina I did a bit of searching before I went to bed and found that most kale have yellow flowers which I know fade after a while but could not find anything definitive about the white..
I will leave one on. XX Jeannine
Oh and the other thing that kale has lots of names. Lacinto, Lacinato, Dino, Dinosaur and several more I don't remember. I think there is a darker version but I am not sure if it is the same or not.
Galina did you perchance get the Spis Bladene from HSL, it is a perennial Klae, large leaves and has a white flower. Could that be it
if not we need to find this one too XX Jeannine
Quote from: Jeannine on March 25, 2016, 18:50:45
Galina did you perchance get the Spis Bladene from HSL, it is a perennial Klae, large leaves and has a white flower. Could that be it
if not we need to find this one too XX Jeannine
Jeannine,
No definitely did not have that one - excepting a mislabelled seed envelope or that sort of thing. Waiting to see (impatiently) what colour your flowers are. They are white, not fading, just really white and you can see it before the buds open.
:wave:
I just go with the traditional Italian name, I think Dino etc is from one of the US seed companies, who annoyingly often feel the need to rename anything slightly difficult to spell or pronounce. This can get quite confusing.
Oh Boy Galina.. talk about annoying.
As there is a bit of chat about kales going around at the moment and I am confused about many I thought I would make a list with AKA's etc. I would include the perennial cabbages as many folks call them kales and figure out which has which latin name..
I now have a list 2 pages long!!! I am certain that many are just names folks have given to their own , I guess I could give mine a name too and add it to the list..but I won't.
There are many I have never heard of that do sound interesting so maybe I will carry it forward a bit but it seems like a big job.
Some seem to be bred from genuine breeders but it is clear that some are not and I think they are just different names for regular well known ones.
I did find a good bit more about Western Front that I knew though, it is pretty much perennial.
I think maybe I will start a kale chat post though as I am taking over the" what did you pick today post"
I have a flower in my hand, still closed but am opening it.. Galina at this point I would say it is yellow but it is technicalyl it is sort od greeny cream so maybe it is a bit soon, I will keep looking.
So what did I pick today....kale!!!
Parsnips, this one was "Palace"... I hadn't thinned them so there was a lot of waste... but more than enough to go round. Also some pak choi, red mustard, spinach beet, carrots and cabbage.
I'm down to PSB, a few leeks, last few brussels and some dodgy looking savoy cabbage. Spuds and squash in storage so just about make a meal..
Purple sprouting broccoli, producing lots now, still curly kale and spinach available too, everything else gone now. Looking forward to planting new season stuff.
I'm out of leeks now - but I've got PSB, Chard that has overwintered great, parsley and land cress still coming.
Over the weekend I dug some parsnips, I thought I'd cleared them all, but I found a short row. They were lovely roasted. Also about the last of the celeriac, they are starting to sprout now. Had another picking of purple sprouting, it's just starting to get going.
Picked a Purple Cape Cauli and will have the last of last years potatoes on my plate this evening.
I've run out of Purple Cape, but still have some spuds. Picked Leeks, Cabbage, parsnips and carrots.. cleared out the Swede bed, and despite the slugs got enough for some mixed root mash. :wave:
More kale shoots but I did eat the first Tom Thumb lettuce from my indoor garden, it was small but it was good and great to get something fresh. Microgreens will be ready in about a week.
Tempted to pick the early ruhubarb stalks bit talked myself out of it
XX Jeannine
Rocket, sorrel, garlic mustard... for a salad and some purple S B :wave:
Daubertons kale and a few chives. Very nice accompaniment to dinner!
some cabbage, before they bolt. Cut and put in the fridge in the shed... keep for several weeks longer than outside.
Black kale, purple and white sprouting broccoli
Kale, sprouting kale, leeks, lambs lettuce, celery and endive. Together with stored squash and nearly the last frozen peas, I'll call it dinner.
Very oddly, when I cleared up the patch of nettles behind the shed, I spotted several apples that had rolled into the nettles - still useable. Apples in April? have to think what's for sweet course. :wave:
You were lucky the slugs hadn't had them Galina... :wave:
Quote from: saddad on April 02, 2016, 19:17:31
You were lucky the slugs hadn't had them Galina... :wave:
A couple of bird pecks Saddad, no slug damage. A bit of rot too, but made a nice compote microwaved with butter and sugar for OH and he sprinkled grape nuts cereal over it for a bit of crunch :wave:
Just about finished the last BNS, picked a small savoy, some PSB and some straggly leeks. Going to be a hungry month!
lettuce, rhubarb,leeks and a tundra cabbage
Speaks for itself
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My indoor kale is harvesting nicely along with lettuces and assorted micro greens so my out door kale plants have been pulled out. I picked two small tomatoes of a Micro Gemma plant today also and really weird find when cleaning out the green house..I found a couple of Sungold tomatoes, very tiny laid on a raised bed which had somehow survived the winter..overwintered Sungolds maybe I should sow them!!
I have nothing else left outside now, just small things under lights
Kale ,leeks and some spearmint now fast emerging ! The Swallows arrived here on Monday ! :blob7:
rhubarb today however i did notice my blueberries are on flower spring is here or may be it briefly
rhubarb ,cabbage left the tulips alone lol
Just lettuce and the new kale..it's getting boring.
The fennel has survived. We had fennel shoots for the first time this year. Also the three-cornered leek is growing very fast. Still a couple of squashes left. Had half a trombo squash yesterday. Lots of salad greens from the greenhouse, lamb's lettuce, cress, land cress and rocket, but the 'real' lettuces are still very small. :wave:
Oh forgot - 4 short but nice thick stalks of rhubarb - first this year :sunny:
Rhubarb, PSB, leeks.
Didn't pick it, but will in a day or two... a cauli to rival TeeGee's :wave:
Sorrel for omelettes, and some accidentally broken off rhubarb, plus herbs such as lovage, parsley, mint, fennel, three cornered leek and its flowers, tarragon.
Me three on the cauli, but not as good as TeeGee's. Plenty of kale shoots, kale florets, psb, also three cornered leek, a couple of real leeks still left and the second to last celeriac. Lots of salading, cress, landcress, endive, lamb's lettuce, rocket and Welsh onion. :wave:
Another Cauli & some Parsnips
My Rhubarb is flying but wasn't sure if it's too early to pick, looks as though everyone's chomping on theirs already. :toothy10:
First of the Asparagus and some more Purple sprouting. An orange and a small overripe pepino.
Just new salad and new kale.
Probably nothing today, but I have my eye on some rhubarb for the weekend...
My rhubarb looks like a totally different plant from last year! The stems are so much fatter and the colour is deeper too. I'm really pleased, seems the manure and "liquid gold" last year worked beautifully so I'll continue to do that. ;)
Last of the kale (ragged jack) which I might make into soup if we are getting the arctic
weather as forecast!!🌨🌬
Debs :icon_flower:
I am also doing well with rhubarb. Put some compost bins over mine, so the stems are a couple of feet long. Keeps them warm too. Did not know they like liquid gold. Will give that a try. They have had a bucket of manure each.
Also Russian kale and leeks (though I do not eat them). Grow them for my daughter and brother in law.
The parsley I planted out in the autumn is perking up so I will have a handful of that,
Silverleaf, whatever you were doing, keep doing it! So pleased you finally got some. Last year you reported a few sickly, thin sticks whilst the rest of us seemed to have lush rhubarb. Glad for the change in fortune :wave:
Quote from: galina on April 23, 2016, 13:28:55
Silverleaf, whatever you were doing, keep doing it! So pleased you finally got some. Last year you reported a few sickly, thin sticks whilst the rest of us seemed to have lush rhubarb. Glad for the change in fortune :wave:
It looks pretty good, lots of new stems coming too! I picked four fat sticks but decided I wanted Oreo ice cream for dessert instead, but we'll eat the rhubarb tomorrow.
Thanks to everyone who gave me such good advice! :)
Yesterday, leeks, purple sprouting (lots) and asparagus.
yesterday last of my spring cabbage
Had some lovely stewed rhubarb with Greek yoghurt and a dash of maple syrup :)
Gorgeous!
Couple of caulis and sprouting broccoli. From the greenhouse lamb's lettuce, cress and lettuce. Just clearing all the salading from the greenhouse and planting tomatoes and peppers. :wave:
Asparagus... again.. and the last of the over winter cauli... :wave:
Mini-greens, rocket, borage, radish and mint for a salad.
lettuce, green onions and cherries
new potatoes and mange tout from greenhouse
New potatoes and Asparagus
lettuce, new, potatoes, mint, onions rhubarb and chives
Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb...3 different varieties!
The first greenhouse strawberries for OH :sunny:
First cutting of my rocket & it was scrummy. Not got much to pick as my allotment is new but things are coming along well in general so hope to have good harvests.
over wintered onions all harvested around the size of cricket balls out of 80 only lost 4 to white rot and them had just started so im able to use them today best onions for years well chuffed :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: :sunny:
Yesterday we managed to do our yearly family challenge.. the first meal by June 2nd!! We got lettuce, new kale shoots, 1 cucumber, spring onions ,1 tiny tomato, home pickled beets from last back end and about 8 pea pods which made a decent salad, served with a few new potatoes, a can of corned beef and a loaf of home made bread with rhubarb for dessert we had our first of the season wartime meal!!! :blob7: :blob7: :blob7: :blob7: :blob7: :blob7: :blob7:
Great Jeannine! Still only one peapod, so we have to defer a bit. Tomatoes? No chance! - you did not mention these as part of the challenge. Plus it is so cold, we need soups and stews atm here, not salad meals.
Made a favourite yesterday - mince flavoured with chili and garlic and an egg - stuffed our huge chard leaves with them and cooked them slowly in a tomato sauce (from tomatoes in kilner jars), grated cheese over the top when the sauce was cooked down and nicely thick. Served with rice and steamed Daubenton kale strips. So good and warming, especially because I added a chilli (from the freezer) to the mince.
Also picked a handful of three-cornered leek (all the flowering ones), chopped and added to the mince before blanching and stuffing the chard.
As the chard is absolutely at its best now, I also put a few portions into the freezer and a few portions of kale.
The Portuguese kale is slowing down flowering now and I trimmed it because it nearly blocked the path. Another 4 freezer bags of finely shredded kale.
Incidentally, we are just now eating the very last winter squash, a big butternut squash, one portion left to savour. Hopefully the courgettes are not long coming. :wave:
stawberries gooseberries lettuce and chive flowers
Galina, chard is one I have never been able to get to like, I am growing some again this year just a couple of plants in order to try to get to terms with it. I sowed Bright Lights which is really just a blend, I have a vivid yellow one and a brilliant red one up so am looking for any ideas as to what to do with it. I can eat it as mixed microshoots at about 2 inches tall. I have grown it many times but always gave it to the foodbank, it is my challenge this year to use it myself.
Jeannine, chard is very similar (to my palate) to spinach, with one large difference. You get stalks too. And they are like quite a different vegetable to the green leaves. They have far less oxalic acid in them and braised in a tomato sauce with oregano or thyme, are quite delectable.
Cream makes spinach into something nice, as does butter, as does finely chopped bacon and the same applies to chard leaves. Cut finely (shred the leaves) and 'wilt' them (I think this is the chef term for 'very lightly cook') in butter, lard, bacon fat etc and very little water. Or cook in little water and finish with cream.
Personally I use chard for burgers - I put an unmeasured (large) amount of chard leaves with mince, onions, garlic, pepper and one egg into the kitchen machine. Blitz, form burgers and fry. Much healthier than adding bread or bread crumbs to make beef burgers and, I can't tell one from the other (but I may not have the most refined palate). The initial green colour disappears on cooking.
Chard parcels I have described already. This was originally a Sophie Grigson recipe from Switzerland, but I changed it quite a bit, so that the only thing that is really similar, is using chard leaves as wrappers.
Another classic recipe is chard quiche.
Lastly any spinach recipe lends itself to chard too. Maybe Eggs Florentine could be a starter recipe for you?
Sorry this is more 'how to cook' than 'what was picked' from the garden, but it was in response to your looking for ideas on how to use chard (and onions, spring onions and the oregano which is also just about now at its best).
Bon Appetit! :sunny:
Spuds! First lot of Dunluce :blob7:
Just a lettuce, (four Seasons) and some salad leaves... buckler leaved sorrel and rocket. Asparagus yesterday so left the few spears until tomorrow.
Rhubarb 5 mins ago. :glasses9:
I'm in with the rhubarb, plus strawberries, broad beans, radish and globe artichokes. Nearly tempted to dig a few spuds, but I will leave it another week.
strung up my overwintered onions today and some spuds
and some spuds out of my one of my tubs
First mangetouts, chard and lettuce. And a shallot which looked to be ailing - had white rot starting on the outside, centre still usable, not so good. Hope the others stay ok. :wave:
garlic, mange tout and spuds
Aioli tonight!
Rhubarb and one Cavili courgette (mushroom and courgette omelette for supper tonight followed by rhubarb with yoghurt!).
Tricia :wave:
shallots lots of them 4 rows drying Nicely in the greenhouse only lost 3 to the dreaded white rot garlic tomorrow weather permitting think i might have lost a few of them however fingers crossed
Asparagus... shot up with this rain... even giving some away it's going to have to be soup time...
thinned out some of my gooseberries on my standard today there is still loads to go
Looking good.
Broad beans, New potatoes, Sugar snap peas, calabrese and the last of the asparagus before I let it go to fern.
:toothy10:
raspberries, potatoes,lettuce various herbs
(Picked yesterday, when the rain finally stopped) Abbot potatoes, raspberries and strawberries.
First pickings of strawberries, broad beans, beetroot and kale. :happy7:
flowers courgettes beetroot and peas
Potatoes, radishes strawberries and beetroot quite pleased with the strawberries because a lot have been rotting before they were ripe am hoping it was all the rain causing it and virus
sorry above should have been and not a virus
Strawberries galore for the last few days. Nothing else ready yet on my new plot but Mangetout, Sugarsnaps won't be long & hoping for some baby beetroots very soon too.
Strawberries and broadbeans. I have a cucumber nearly ready and a 2nd courgette that I'm hoping to pick tomorrow and the peas are dripping from the plants but need to fatten up yet. I've ran out of lettuces even though I have tried really really hard not to run out lol....and shop brought lettuce is so tasteless :BangHead:
When I got to my plot yesterday I had a nice surprise I was able to start harvesting Chard, Purple Turnips, Mangetout & more strawberries. Lots of salad leaves too so was able to make my first nearly all from the allotment dinner :icon_cheers:
New potatoes, baby carrots, snow peas, multiplier onions, herbs.
Cooked potatoes and carrots gently in stock, added peas and herbs at the end along with some leftover cooked chicken and a bit of cream. Delicious!
cabbage fruit and and a little gem for a sandwich later
Strawberries, mangetout, peas, broad beans. Slow start to the season but it's beginning to come together.
New Spuds
Baby Carrots
Strawberries
Rhubarb
Spring Onions
:icon_cheers:
Today we are eating a delicious medley of our own cabbages , courgettes and peas .....oh and a good serving of our own yummy , buttery, fried shredded onions ......new potatoes with melted butter and chopped mint heaven . :blob7:
Spuds
Mint
Spring Onions
About 30 mins ago
:sunny:
Loads more strawberries, mangetout, broad beans and beetroot. Oops I forgot to harvest a lettuce"drats"🙁
DUke
Strawberries, broad beans, rhubarb, new potatoes (Casablanca) and various herbs. However I also pulled up what I thought was an unnecessary extra row of greyhound cabbage to put in a row of Savoy cabbage, only to realise too late that they were calabrese (looked the same!), so a bit gutted (replanted a few but not hopeful - big lesson, must label my veg better!).
Lettuce, onions, peas and crunchy radish pods :wave:
Last night I picked my first courgette!!!! Usually giving bags away by now but weather has been so awful I didn't think I would get any so very excited to have one :icon_cheers:
Loads of strawberries every day, never had such a good crop before, growing them in pots has been brilliant this year, copper tape round the pots has meant zero slug damage & I haven't had to net them as the birds don't seem to see them. Really easy to pick too.
Got a good crop of Mangetout to pick today & more turnips, chard & lettuces.
blackberries other soft fruit cabbage lettuce
Harvested my overwintered Jermor shallots......varied in size and number, one group had 16 large shallots, others had 5 tiny ones!!
First blueberries picked today for on breakfast
First broadies eaten last night. :)
16 large ones - that's fab! Congratulations Deb! Will you be taking some of these for replanting or buy new ones? :wave:
Quote from: Deb P on July 04, 2016, 20:13:56
Harvested my overwintered Jermor shallots......varied in size and number, one group had 16 large shallots, others had 5 tiny ones!!
I don't usually save them as they get eaten up pretty quickly, and when I did try saving some to replant they didn't last well and shrivelled up before I had a chance to plant any! :BangHead:
I guess that's why I replant late autumn, but shallots usually keep longer than onions for me. I always replant the best. Enjoy your shallots, Deb :wave:
Quote from: Deb P on July 07, 2016, 00:32:15
I don't usually save them as they get eaten up pretty quickly, and when I did try saving some to replant they didn't last well and shrivelled up before I had a chance to plant any! :BangHead:
First tomatoes today (Irish Gardeners Delight)..they never made it into the house.
First mini white cucumber too :)
Spinach, cultivated/mild rocket and lettuce in salad at lunchtime, and coriander for salsa.
Gooseberries, strawberries, blueberries, chard, lettuces, mangetout, sugar snaps, first of my beetroot, turnips, courgettes... lovely big harvest today :happy7:
Raspberries, strawberries and rhubarb
Cherries!
First cherries here too. :sunny: And loganberries, the first jostaberries, gooseberries and black currants. The red and white currants are not quite there yet.
Peas, Red Duke of York potatoes and tons of lettuce. The new chard plants are coming along nicely too. And carrot thinnings. :wave:
Spinach, rhubard, sweet peas and 6 raspberries, eaten at allotment. And the firet cougette. Funny old year. Apples seem 2 b doing ok.
runner beans cucumbers lettuce chillis beetroot carrots peas cabbage blackberries strawberrys raspberrys blueberries calabrese spring onions gooseberrys flowers had a very busy day today ready for bed already
This year has been strange. Usually the first ripe tom us a sun gold first week of July. Sadly they are still green but the yellow pears are ripening and I gad the first one today. I'm overrun with gherkins and have been trialing pickling recipes.the king horn French beans did well and I have several loads in the freezer. I'm holding of on the duke of York pots as our local show is in two weeks and the category wants six potatoes so I'm sure I'll get through lots of plants to find six matching ones! The making jewel raspberries have been lovely as have a gorgeous pink flowered strawberry called ROman I've had lots of lovely fruit from these in a pot. I've got more broad beans than I know what to do with but the peas never make it into the house ATM. So despite the current bad weather the warm June is paying dividend here on my irish plot.
Dog "harvested" all the ripe strawberries, leaving just stalk and bit of fruit on plants.
We harvested Chard, Rocket, Spinach and lettuce. So had a lovely feta salad with the last three.
blackberries runners and lettuce
Black currants, peas and lettuce. :wave:
Blackcurrants - just off to make some Jelly and some blackcurrant vodka!
Peas - a little bit over ripe but a decent crop of a purple podded variety.
Cucs from the poly and plenty of rocket, parsley and salad.
Cherries, gooseberries and red currants...
First of my Charlottes gathered yesterday, all in beautiful condition so I am chuffed. Today I will be harvesting lettuces, blueberries, mangetout, sugarsnaps, chard, beetroot, courgettes, dwarf purple beans, last of the turnips, strawberries & gooseberries.
Raspberries, blackcurrants , 2 courgettes ,ten gardeners delight tomatoes, a good two handfuls of pea pods , mint leaves to go on my hot buttery new potatoes and two very small onions ... thrilled !
Red Currants, cherries, raspberries and apricots. Mixed cherry toms from the greenhouse and Hot Dog, Snookie, PFA and Bikini potatoes from the plot. Had a mixed pan of tatties this evening yum.
Charlotte potatoes, beetroots, lettuces, sugarsnaps, mangetout, first swede, courgette, cucumber, purple dwarf beans.
Nice hauls Jayb and Crystalmoon. Envy the apricots and the swede, and your tomatoes Woodypecks. :icon_cheers:
Here cherries, loganberries and blackberries. And peas, peas, peas ....... lots of lettuce too, carrot thinnings and courgette. And a bit of chard. And the last broad beans.
Got the early potatoes up and replanted the space with leeks, beetroot and turnips. Potatoes were: the last red Duke of York - well really any that were missed earlier, then Anya, Harlequin, and an experimental type that was given as freebie years ago on potato day, but is still going well with baker sized tubers. Lastly a strain of Bluebelle x Ratte from tps. These had very small tubers last year, but much bigger this year. All tubers were good size no doubt because of the rain.
Everybody's hard work is paying off, although there has been onion white rot and blight to varying degrees too. :wave:
first of my plums and they were fantastic picked around a dozen big with small stones
What is the variety Johhnyco? That's very early, fabulous and mouthwatering pictures. :wave:
first of the swede yesterday...looks great will have it for dinner tonight.
Quote from: galina on July 22, 2016, 07:21:37
What is the variety Johhnyco? That's very early, fabulous and mouthwatering pictures. :wave:
i think its bluetit however i cant be sure i have around half a dozen different varieties and today i had my first outdoor toms sungold fantastic
Yesterday I picked the last of the Mangetout, some more Sugarsnaps, Chard, Lettuces, spuds, Blueberries, Courgettes, Cucumber & the first of the peas.
Dug up the last of my Charlotte potatoes, the Leeks are ready to follow now. Got a tub full from 3/4 of a raised bed with very little damage, most baker sized so result!
Peas, dwarf french beans, Barlotti cfb's, Tayberries, courgettes of course all going strong, lots of onions but my banana shallots are going to be really good this year, they seem to have bulked up all of a sudden!
Last night I harvested chard, blueberries, cucumber, lettuce, sugarsnaps, peas, courgettes, potatoes, lavender, beetroots, dwarf purple beans. Some gaps coming in my beds that I look forward to filling in a couple of months with spring cabbages.
Garden has come alive last few days with young tender cobra beans and lovely peas which by the way were so sweet as I stood on our small growing area munching them,Raspberries and Green and Red Goosies all been collected daily,caught loads of mackerel at the weekend and made some gooseberry puree to have with the grilled fish...so much nicer not burping all day from the fish when you enjoy a smear of puree on them.....
yes our charlottes have been to die for steamed its so much fun just walking 50 yds and digging up part of your evening meal ....
Rhubarb is a staple and enjoy the stems gently boiled with some stevia arti sugar....the girls don't mind and its so tasty with low fat crème fraiche.....
Green and Red salad onions have been best ever ive grown lovely fat and juicy and tasty snipped on the salads,of course daily herbs are picked and used accordingly.
tried our first success from the green house with our cucumbers forming nicely I tend to pick them 8ins approx. as it cuts down on monsters eating them young....tasty so all good.....tommies ,peppers and chillies all coming along but none to pick as yet.
really enjoy eating from the garden......and yes I do so miss the plot but have to make the best of a small environement.
Gazza
Yesterday I decided to dig up all of my Charlottes as over the weekend blight has really hit our allotment site hard. It had just started to touch the leaves of my spuds but the plots surrounding mine are full of it & as we had really heavy rain forecast for last night (which came) & rain all day today then very hot weather forecast I decided to get the spuds up before much damage could be done to them. I will share them with friends & store some in hessian sacks. Got a huge harvest from them but there were still lots of small ones that would have continued growing if left in the soil so a bit of a shame but hey ho such is the annoyance of blight.
Picked lots of cucumbers, lettuce, sugarsnaps, peas, chard, last of red goosberries, blueberries, purple beans, courgettes. Shared some of my harvest with plot neighbour & he shared some of his summer raspberries with me....I love it when this happens :toothy10:
Still eating runner & french beans picked the other day. Today I just collected one round courgette, one ordinary one and five strawberries.
This is my first season with an allotment and due to when I took it on, I'm way behind with crops and a rotation/succession system.
Quote from: Legin on August 02, 2016, 14:03:05
Still eating runner & french beans picked the other day. Today I just collected one round courgette, one ordinary one and five strawberries.
This is my first season with an allotment and due to when I took it on, I'm way behind with crops and a rotation/succession system.
firstly let me welcome you to a4a thereis a wealth of knowledge and tips to grasp here if you have a problem then here will prob give the answer hope you enjoy it as much as i have today i picked beans toms blackberries raspberries spring oinins courgettes josta berries black currants lettuce and spuds in and out of the rain
I've just come back from picking
A couple of Sweetcorn for tomorrows dinner :icon_cheers:
Strawberries
A rather masssive Marrow :toothy10:
Courgettes
Beetroot
Good luck Legin and don't worry about rotation you can start that next year, any help and you only have to ask on here. :wave:
Pretty mammoth haul today ... it's a really busy time of year.
Courgettes (obviously!)
Achochas
Harlequin potatoes
Red Celery (very strong! not for salads ... just stews & soups unfortunately)
Kohl Rabi
Glory of Enkhuisen cabbage
Mara des bois strawberries
Blueberries
One fig!
Lettuce
Sugar snap peas
Early fortune cucumbers
Carrots
A little bit of everything makes a lovely blended soup for a rainy day with a fruit salad to follow
:blob7:
John, which type of Achocha? They are mostly pretty daylength sensitive and don't produce much before the equinox. Clearly yours is bucking the trend = much better adapted to growing conditions here. Which one are you growing please?
I ate an achocha pod yesterday.. but today was mulberries, toms, cuchino cucs, aubergines and minipop corn...
They're the Giant Bolivian ones sold by the real seed company ... I saved my own seeds a couple of years ago so they're from those saved ones. I just interplanted a row of climbing beans with three plants and they're already ¾ of the way up the poles hanging from my bean plants! Not many fruit and I know from last time they're far tastier if you pick them young.
To be frank I'm not a huge fan of their taste ... but young they're something between a runner bean and a cucumber in flavour ... quite nice mixed in with courgettes/onions/tomatoes in a pasta sauce. They're the most productive thing I have ever grown - these three plants have already made 4 fruits and they're about to explode.
I find they end up being more fun to play with for the kids as they look for all the world like green clangers with their noses!
Quote from: galina on August 02, 2016, 23:00:55
John, which type of Achocha? They are mostly pretty daylength sensitive and don't produce much before the equinox. Clearly yours is bucking the trend = much better adapted to growing conditions here. Which one are you growing please?
Actually - thinking about it Galina ... are you thinking of Oca? My achocha have always set fruit about now.
Quote from: squeezyjohn on August 03, 2016, 00:03:40
Quote from: galina on August 02, 2016, 23:00:55
John, which type of Achocha? They are mostly pretty daylength sensitive and don't produce much before the equinox. Clearly yours is bucking the trend = much better adapted to growing conditions here. Which one are you growing please?
Actually - thinking about it Galina ... are you thinking of Oca? My achocha have always set fruit about now.
No I do mean Achocha. My Giant Bolivian are also almost up the top of the 8ft bean pole and flowering. No fruit yet. Delighted that this one might be a bit earlier. When Achocha first came to this country, they all seemed to be very late, but Fat Baby seems to have adjusted to earlier fruiting. Lady's Slipper Achocha is still quite late for me and we need a long autumn for a really big harvest. This is my first year for Bolivian Giants - we had seeds from the seed circle - great news that yours are already harvestable. Seems they may be earlier too :wave:
Oh - OK then - I had never heard about them fruiting in response to the equinox that's all. Good luck with yours. They are fun!
beans more beans
Tommys
Carrots
French beans
Beetroot
Courgettes
Sweetcorn
Spuds
Spring onions
Onions
:sunny:
Just lettuce, carrots, courgettes and a few late mangetouts. :wave:
Tomatoes, chillies, oranges and peaches.
Quote from: Jayb on August 08, 2016, 08:01:29
Tomatoes, chillies, oranges and peaches.
Love the way you casually add on peaches! :glasses9: :toothy10: :glasses9:
If that was me i would be
PEACHES
Cucumbers, courgettes, tomatoes, french beans, raspberries, brambles, mini-corn... do love August! :wave:
Runner beans, blackberries, raspberries, courgettes, cucumber. More sweet peas for indoors. A few redcurrants so made some jam, added some blackberries and a load of raspberries. Gave some stuff away, so must be a good year.
first butternut of the year a good size too around 2 kilo
30 lbs spuds Carrots and Beetroots and a marrow !
:wave: I'm feeling very pleased with myself as after five years of failures I have finally eaten an aubergine grown by me! Maybe all it needed was a wet warm summer!
Now I've seen you guys harvesting potatoes I'm going to give mine a bit of a firkle !
X sunloving
Yesterday I picked the last of the dwarf purple beans from the first bed (still got a 2nd bed going strong), picked the last courgette off one plant that has produced soooooooooo many really large ones compared to the other 2 plants of the same variety all planted at same time so no idea why one has been so prolific, blueberries are almost at an end but still getting a small punnet a day, got some beautiful raspberries from the few Autumn ones I planted this year that survived (such a shame if all 20 had survived I would be getting a punnet a night but such is life), will be picking the last of my peas today (only grew as an experiment but will be growing lots more next year as I can't believe how much nicer they are especially eaten raw straight from the plant lol), also plan to finish harvesting the beetroot, will be picking more cucumbers too. I really had doubts that much would grow well this year at the start of the season but I have had great harvests so I am chuffed.
Tomatoes, cucumbers,sweet peppers and runner beans the beans have been rather slow this year but they seem to be cropping ok now
Pulled half my beetroot for my friend who makes raspberry and beetroot Chutney, she said it was lovely and I get some chutney back!
I've had to move my peppers and chillies back home from the little lottie greenhouse though, my drip system just wasn't keeping them watered enough, and the plants were miles smaller than the same varieties I kept at home. I've repotted them and they now reside on the greenhouse floor tiles as I have nowhere else to put them!
Runner beans
French beans
Courgettes
Patty pans
Raspberries
Blackberries
Nothing yet 🙄
Although my blackberries will be producing a decent crop again this year, once they are ripe - I've picked about a dozen so far!! 😆🎉🍾
Debs :icon_flower:
Courgettes , Firestorm french/runner beans which are a first for me ,very tasty too , onions ,Romaine Cos lettuces which are beginning to bolt ,tomatoes , beetroots and spearmint .
Quote from: Debs on August 20, 2016, 19:36:00
Nothing yet 🙄
Although my blackberries will be producing a decent crop again this year, once they are ripe - I've picked about a dozen so far!! 😆🎉🍾
Debs :icon_flower:
oh debs here on the sunshine coast they are all finished i cut them all back today and tied in next years growth just goes to show how diverse our country is
Johnnyco15,
Wish I'd had the harvest which you've had!
I've only got my garden as growing space, but plan on getting an allotment when I have more time and can (hopefully) get an allotment and dedicate time to growing.
2 years, 10 months and counting ...🎉😳
Debs :icon_flower:
Yesterday I picked the last of my peas, Pak Choi sown straight after them. Also the last of my beetroot, Spinach sown straight away in the empty bed. Lots of cucumbers. A few raspberries & blueberries. Lots of chard. My first corn on the cob which I had for dinner & it was lovely. Chard has been fantastic this year I only sowed a very small amount & it has been feeding me almost daily for months!
I've been picking corn cobs every other day for a week now. The first one is always such a treat :sunny:. After that I partially shuck them, roll in cling wrap then fill a freezer bag and fast freeze them.
The first JoanJ are ripening so I will soon have to use up those still in the freezer from last year - raspberry jelly I think!
Tricia :wave:
Victoria plums, yum :icon_cheers:
Picked blackberries -making blackberry vodka 😛
Flat white boar squash and round Asian courgettes are romping away!
Still waiting for tomatoes to get going 🙄
Debs :icon_flower:
Loads of raspberries, lots of courgettes, some kale and a few beans.
Quote from: Debs on August 21, 2016, 23:10:36
Johnnyco15,
Wish I'd had the harvest which you've had!
I've only got my garden as growing space, but plan on getting an allotment when I have more time and can (hopefully) get an allotment and dedicate time to growing.
2 years, 10 months and counting ...🎉😳
Debs :icon_flower:
im sure the time will go quick debs and a little is better than none hope it all goes to plan
Nothing, much too hot here in sunny Enfield. Might go up to the allotment tomorrow morning if I get up early as it is going to be even hotter tomorrow. We need some rain.
Hi Tricia I didn't know you could freeze corn that way I will give it a go thank you
figs plums sweet peppers and the usual stuff
Harvested half of my sweetcorn yesterday & froze most of it. I had noticed some mice nibblings on a ripe one & didn't want to lose the crop. The other half aren't quite ready yet so hoping they will still be there to pick after the Bank Holiday weekend as I will be away from home.
Greengages, lettuce, courgettes, tomatoes and chard. And the very last peas and the first runner and French beans.
Most years the greengages arrive just as we go on holiday and are nearly over when we come back, their window is a very short one. As everything is late this year, we are getting them before they split and the wasps are getting to them. :sunny:
Also picked the very first black berries.
Yesterday afternoon, I picked a couple of cucumbers, some courgettes and cherry tomatoes.
Today I will pick some raspberries and blackberries and then freeze them.
clacton air show today so only a quick nip to the plot today peppers cue chillis and aubergine
Quote from: johhnyco15 on August 24, 2016, 19:54:02
figs plums sweet peppers and the usual stuff
These are either the most giant tomatoes ever or you have a really tiny muck bucket Johhny ;) all looking great especially the figs!
Quote from: galina on August 25, 2016, 15:37:05
Quote from: johhnyco15 on August 24, 2016, 19:54:02
figs plums sweet peppers and the usual stuff
These are either the most giant tomatoes ever or you have a really tiny muck bucket Johhny ;) all looking great especially the figs!
they are large however the bucket is a little smaller than normal :drunken_smilie:
First sweetcorn and it was great!
Runner beans (Moonlight and Scarlet Emperor), French beans (Cobra climbing), courgettes yellow and green, patty pans, a few peas, lettuce, Greek cress, raspberries and blackberries.
Did I mention the sweetcorn?
I could have picked Tuscan Kale, cabbages, mooli radish, Swiss chard and perpetual spinach, turnips, carrots and cucumbers but they will wait a day or so.
Also some sweetcorn.
This is when I know why I have an allotment!
very large and heavy red drumhead cabbages, sauerkraut is now burping away and Delia`s red spicy cabbage is frozen, more to pick and process. Slightly ahead of time, bardsey apples to bottle, too many to wait any longer. Courgettes, cucumber, runner beans moonlight, very good and reliable crop. Swiss chard. beetroot, raspberries. Am picking something every day, didn`t realise there was so much
today oh the same as yesterday might have some rain tonight so picked some tomatoes just a few
Loads... having been away all week... including 14 cucumbers!
Emptied 3 x 35 litre containers of Maris pipers, not the biggest spuds ever but not one lost to slugs!👍
Aubergines... mostly!
Beans, beans and more beans!
Yesterday I picked the first of my Kale & had it for dinner....lovely :happy7:
Also picked raspberries, purple beans, cucumbers, courgettes, sweetcorn. Lots of things coming to an end whilst others are just starting....looking forward to harvesting PakChoi soon
It will be plums this afternoon, way behind with Summer pruning so who knows what I'll find. Had 8 figs yesterday..
Lots of tomatoes
True, just frozen some cherries whole for casseroles, put 4lb into soup and 2 lb into "slop"... :blob7:
Quote from: saddad on August 31, 2016, 21:27:12
True, just frozen some cherries whole for casseroles, put 4lb into soup and 2 lb into "slop"... :blob7:
I am guessing you mean cherry tomatoes🤔
Yesterday I picked the last of my courgettes as I decided to kill off the plants, they have cropped so well I have a freezer full of them & they are taking precious water from my butternuts so it was time for them to go. Also picked loads of cucumbers...I have had so many from just one plant this year (the others didn't survive the harsh start to the season even under a plastic sheet). I also killed off the cucumber plant as I needed the bed for something else. Picked some lovely raspberries & my first blackberries from a new plant put in this year. Chard still going strong & purple dwarf beans so picking them today.
Yes, cherry tomatoes, a mix of Sungold, Black Cherry, Whippersnapper and Garden Pearl. :wave:
Last of my blueberries picked today
Blackberries, first apples (Discovery - pips are mostly brown), Greengages, Victorias and courgette, carrots, beans and cherry tomatoes (Koralik initially was badly blight affected, but now seems to have grown some not blighted fruits).
I really was in two minds whether to pull the tomatoes altogether, did pull most, but severely pruned the slightly less affected ones. There won't be a large outdoor tomato harvest, but the cherries (Koralik, Gardener's Delight and Medovaya Kaplya) have stood up to blight better than the beefsteaks. :wave:
tomatoes and some bulls horn peppers
Pumpkinlover transport
Still harvesting lots of chard & Autumn raspberries....will start to pic the Calvero Nero end of this week
The last figs... probably, toms and aubergines, drying beans. Had a cauli and cabbage at the weekend.
Harvested the first of my Pak Choi today really looking forward to having it for dinner
tomatoes lettuce cucumbers and a load more peppers
Butternut squashes :)
Picked the last two courgettes , one Giant Pink Banana Squash , two Delicata Squash , 6 French Beans , two large carrier bags of apples .
(Yesterday) Tomatoes, grapes, apples and Japanese Quince.
Three JoanJ raspberries - finished now - and one Cavili courgette which is still producing long after two other varieties finished! All yesterday, today it's bucketing down. Raised beds all manured and covered now for the winter.
Time to watch the birds and twiddle my thumbs :coffee2:.
Tricia :wave:
Just noticed - today's post reflects my year of birth!
Spinach, chard and kale today.
Just popped out to pick a couple of peppers and some basil for my dinner!
Almost certainly the last courgettes, although I have left a couple of plants in just in case, purple Cauli. :wave:
Lettuce, tomatoes from greenhouse and landcress. :wave:
New potatoes!!
I was very late planting the taters this year and am very late digging them up. I cut the tops off when blight was on the go late summer and am now digging up.
Fantastic crop of Charlotte which are just like new taters. Even Mr PKL is eating them after a scrub, that means they are ok. Hope Mr Curmudgeon is on the plot for me to tell him as he's thrown all his Charlotte s away for the last two years :glasses9:
Yesterday I picked Calvero Nero, Chard, raspberries, pak Choi, & the first of my Leeks
Kestrel pots, curly kale, a couple of little gems and some beetroot. Thought about a swede but didn't want to start them too early.
Cavili courgettes are still producing - picked two more today!
Tricia :wave:
Florence fennel, leeks, cabbage, Tuscan kale, swedes, turnips, chard, mooli radish.
It's so good to have your own veg even in winter.
The fennel didn't like the frosts - not sure how useable it will be. I'll know to lift it next time, it keeps well.
Paulh, quite envious. I only harvested kale today. I wanted chard too, but some animal has eaten all my chard tops between yesterday and today. And the beetroot tops although there weren't many of those left :BangHead:
They'll resprout, but I will have to cloche them. Never had that happen before. Deer?
Fortunately the kales are untouched. But I will have to net those too, only a matter of time before the pigeons discover them. Also plentiful in the garden are leeks and celery, landcress and turnips (under cloches). And I have yet to dig up the oca under the cloches
But we had onions, garlic, marrow, peas and tomatoes from stores and from the freezer for dinner too. Lettuce etc in the greenhouse are still looking good and still growing slowly. :wave:
What did I pick today?.........Nout!
And won't till Xmas eve when I pick the sprouts & parsnips for Xmas dinner!
I am in hibernation!
OK I have had a few it was the plot holders Xmas get together tonight!
Red and green cabbage, carrots and sprouts. A late Cauli.. just bringing in for the week as it is too dark when I get home to harvest.
Soon be spring again!
Just leeks and carrots, and some windfall apples.
Red Cabbage, parsnips and a bucket full of brussels to freeze. I have never had a year as good as this with brussels. All my brassicas are of the club resistant varieties.
Christmas potatoes. Not a bad yield. Duke of York
a trugg full of peppers and some brussel tops for dinner
A bag of hungry gap.
Brussels sprouts tops and salad leaves.
Going to make "Summer and Winter soup" ( some summer and some winter type ingredients) or as usual "What I can find" soup
Picked the last of the Pak Choy yesterday, more lovely Calvero Nero & some leeks.
Quote from: Crystalmoon on December 15, 2016, 08:13:46
Picked the last of the Pak Choy yesterday, more lovely Calvero Nero & some leeks.
Did your late planted potatoes make it ok? What else do you still have on the plot, Crystalmoon?
Kale and leeks here too. Also celery, landcress, rocket, also lettuce and cress from the greenhouse. Have covered my chard stumps with cloches, I think it was deer that ate them. In this mild spell we already have some regrowth from the centre :wave:
SPROUTS
Hi Galina sadly the frosts have been hard here for quite some time so my late planted spuds haven't made it even though they were covered in fleece & in plastic raised beds to keep the soil warmer. I haven't dug them up yet though....the foliage has wilted very badly so I don't expect to get even one usable spud but I will leave them in the ground until Christmas eve & have a look then, you never know perhaps there will be a few. I had no intention to grow them so nothing ventured nothing gained :tongue3:
I've got lots growing for later in the Winter, variety of cabbages, Purple sprouting, Calabrese etc but I've only got Calvero Nero & Leeks to harvest at the mo. I'm munching my way through the veg in my freezer too, still got lots of courgettes to use up but I have finished off the beetroot, sweetcorn, beans & peas. Got quite a few butternuts to eat, expect they will be finished some time in January.
I've got a huge Chard still growing at the allotment but it has turned very bitter so I am letting the wildlife enjoy it.
Wishing you a wonderful Christmas xxxx
Dug up a few parsnips ....not champion ones , but they'll do for our Christmas feast tomorrow :blob7:
Dug up some parsnips they dont seem as good as usual but hopefully they will be ok
Had the first sprouts today with our tea. They are called Revenge. Not sure if a good idea when you are in a small caravan. :glasses9:
Carrots, leeks and kale and a few Jerusalem artichokes.Every little helps when you've got 15for Christmas dinner! :happy7:
got a lot of family coming today around 30 so this morning went to allotment for all the usual festive stuff sprouts leeks shallots kale parsnips carrots spring onions lettuce and beetroot now its a race to prep and cook them all before they all arrive i suppose its my fault really having 8 kids and all happy boxing day
Cabbage, red and green, sprouts, carrots, leeks, parsnips.... just to tide us over the New Year celebrations.
Bought some celriac!
Cabbage, red and green, sprouts, carrots, leeks, parsnips.... just to tide us over the New Year celebrations.
Bought some celeriac!
Leeks, Brussels sprouts, Chinese Cabbage, Mustard leaves, Rocket and land cress for a spicy salad .... and tomatoes! Little yellow tomatoes still perfectly fresh in the bubblewrapped greenhouse on the long-dead plants! I don't know about you but I think home-grown tomatoes in January is a little victory!
I still have a few... one freezer tray of mostly "green" varieties ripening off the vine...