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About 30 of the darn things supersprout.  Some have gone really moldy, much to the kids delight, so they ended up in the compost heap.  They do go really odd as they start to break down!  Some just turn to water...some go black, and some grow lovely fur coats!  ;D

The daffs are all open now.  I really must remember to buy another sack of cheapo bulbs in the summer and get them in alongside the others on the plot.  It is nice to be able to go up and cut a bunch of flowers, but I was about 2 days to late and at least half had opened, so I didn't bother to cut those.  It does look lovely on the plot seeing the flowers glowing in the spring sunshine!

Great picture EJ  :) And you grow your own bread rolls as well!!!!  ;D

When I started this thread i was hoping to have a report of further harvest. Alas not as expected. My overwintering cabbages have proved a great disapointment and have not produced the crop i was anticipating (see seperate thread for details).

I am glad to see you are all getting some nice early harvests.

Rhubarb next weekend I reckon - only started planting the veg area up last autumn, but the rhubarb has had lots of TLC & horse muck and is looking lucious.

Still harvesting leeks (leek and potato bake last week) and this weekend picked the first rhubarb (unforced) to make a gorgeous crumble......mmmm.....will be having second helping of same tonight.....with custard   :)....am hungry now just thinking of it  :)
Plottie

Spinach beet and chard are putting out new growth - had spinach beet with our supper tonight, lovely to be picking it again. Will probably be making some sorrel soup next week, perhaps followed with rhubarb crumble - can't wait!

My rhubarb's sprouting well, but I won't be picking till next month. Let it reach full size, so that it goes further! We always eat the lot, whenever we start.

Hi all
Isn't it great still to picking and using previously stored crops.

Sad day today as the last of the Savoy's has just been picked and the sprouts are sprouting they have been dug up.
Still Purple sprouting is going well, a few leeks left and Butternut squash still OK.

Harvested this week: leeks and parsnips, curly and ragged jack kale, rocket, lambs lettuce and texel greens, flat leaved and curled parsley and theer are two more winter lettuces.  Sprouts have finished, purple sprouting broc. not yet started.  I have put some cover on the rhubarb just to speed them up a bit (and because I've never tried forcing them).  sadly the garden is pretty wet after last week.

Having only had the lottie since last October I didn't expect to have a harvest yet; however a surprise daffodil flowered along one fenceline, so I brought two of its flowers home to enjoy  :D

mat

Leeks and parsnips still being dug, although like other peoples' the 'snips are sprouting again and will be lifted next week and either made into soup or mashed and frozen. The Leeks are delicious fried in a little butter though!!  ;)

radishes, purple sprouting, rhubarb, spinach, parsley, asparagus (just), rocket.

Mizuna and rocket today, first of the year :)

We recently finished the last of the leeks, and we've had a couple of pickings of rhubarb.

The rhubarb crown that I broke up at the end of last year has sprung into the most amazing growth.  I've also planted 6 new crowns this spring, thinking the old one had had it, so next year we're going to have more rhubarb than you can shake a stick at. ;D

Daffs, tulips, primroses all flourishing but I am loathe to pick them as they seem to die very quickly in the central heating.

Of  this year's crops only rhubarb so far which I used in amphibian's Brown Betty Rhubarb (delish change from crumble - its in Recipes) - until today when I cut my very first two Asparagus spears which I then went away and left in the shed! >:(

We have got loads of lovely rhubarb and from last year we are still harvesting leeks and spinach. busy_lizzie

Snap, Whicker- rhubarb, and our first evr asparagus- yum! Didn't leave it in the shed, though!

It's great to see what you are all harvesting, I hope to be able to join in next year.

I just harvested my first winter lettuce (Arctic King). It was heavenly. There's a nice photo here http://www.mytinyplot.co.uk/ (sorry haven't worked out how to put pics up here yet).

Other than that the perpetual spinach has gone crazy over the last few weeks and I've harvested twice from that. Also some herbs. But that's it for now.

Hi there,

we only got our plot (at the time very overgrown!) in september so I put in loads of winter veg.

We're currently harvesting winter raddish, turnip, lettuce (Arctic king), endive, landcress, white/purple sprouting broccoli, several different types of Kale and cabbages, sprouts, spinache, cauliflower and the maystar cauliflowers are fattening up nicely. Also had a couple of winter carrots but they were TINY..

We put in well over 120 brassicas and have a mammoth glut... lesson learned for next year!

Truffle