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We used our last potatoes and leeks yesterday. The onions ran out at Christmas. (I'm going to double production of these this year.)

I have lettuces, spring onions, chicons and assorted herbs in the greenhouse and jerusalem artichokes, brocolli, mustard 'green in snow' (literally!), kale and some chicory/endive going strong in the allotment.

Fair enough, but it feels like a LONG time until this year's harvest gets going properly.

I'd be really interested to know what strategies you have found to get a harvest in March and April... 

i've just dug up 'pink fir apple ' potatoes from last year- no damage and attempt to sprout- i think i've been lucky ;D
'lazy beds' i suppose youd call it-  storing where you plant without moving them -they taste like 'new'

also celery 'Red Giant' not trenched but treated  as  a cutting or leaf celery- it still has small stalks with i harvest a bit at a time from the outside of the plant (which seems to have upset tim- see 'in need of some advice about how to grow celery) yes  they may well be 'better varieties' but it is colder here i am sure

Swiss Chard still going strong - now with a heap of snow on it so maybe not much longer

Sprouting broccoli - some people's has been sprouting now, then I hope mine will sprout next month. I only managed to plant out the one purple sprouting.
Got Kale - Hungry Gap growing in the garden, not harvested any though (slap wrist!).
Other brassicas - there are sprouts that are late, winter/spring cabbages, caulis - had an April heading one that changed its mind in Sept/October..
Grow more parsnips - the flavour improves after frost - should be ok in snow (apart from digging them up that is!)
Cress - might see if my 3 yr old wants to sow some of them - he has already helped me sow some seeds!

Still doing pretty well.  Our spuds finished mid autumn so are doing more this time, same with onions, but the white rot fights me for them!  Still have garlic and chillis to season dishes and on the plot have 3 different Kales, spinach, chards, leeks, spring onions, celeriac, brocolli and caulis just coming!  Throughout last year, as I harvested things, I tried to make various things with them to freeze, veggie curries, sauces, soups and stews, and with the jars and jars of pickles and jams, we are still doing really well from the allotment produce!  Am forcing some rhubarb now to try and steal an earlier crop.