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just made a pizza, our pizza topping from last year (still got 3 more) and some onions that had decided to flower and the last of last year's garlic  ;D

One strawberry, a tablespoonful of baby spinach, after cooked, and two radishes in the fridge.

broad beans, rocket and basil in my salad tonight with the first proper picking of our strawberries to follow  :)

first new potatoes steamed with fresh mint, so yummy with a mixture of salad leaves & first strawberries for pud, im in allotment heaven today ;D

Strawherries, managed to get brave and pick the ones next to the snake.

The first of our yellow mange tout - just a handful but we couldn't wait any longer.  Now looking forward to making yellow salads with yellow tomatoes and radishes when they are ready!

First courgettes of the year (yellow Taxi and green Bambino) from the polytunnel.
Lettuce too (Ice Queen).

New spuds with fresh mint, onions in a stirfry with mushroms with lamb.     ;D ;D ;D

Delighted to find that grass-like volunteer garlic, grouped into a corner in March, has bulked up into little fat marbles, so used it today instead of digging up the real ones, still growing.

First new potatoes found by poking soil with a trowel; spinach; gooseberry and elderflower sauce with our pork chops. Lots and lots of herbs. A great heap of lightly boiled asparagus yesterday for four of us, with herby/garlicky butter.

Some huge red strawberries. Mara des Bois is the best strawberry in the world. Got the plants last year in Boulogne Market in August and am amazed at their growth and the size and sweetness of the fruit; will be collecting runners and establishing a bigger bed.

going to have these spuds for tea, with  the asparagus in a stilton & asparagus quiche. Mmmmm
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Tonybloke that sounds sooooooooooooooo scrummy, made my mouth water & tummy rumble ;D

Mange tout, love them up the plot, keeps my toddler entertained for ages and they're fantastic to eat off the plant, not got many this year but enough for a couple of pods each trip he takes with me, going to do loads next year!

I mede bunny curry with courgette, coriander, mangetout, shallots, garlic....yum..and the bunny was from work...all free ;D ;D..I wish my new potatoes would have been ready... ::)

Broad beans and strawberries. I'm assured that they were delicious, now 6 weeks with no sense of taste or smell....depressing. :'(

Quote from: tonybloke on June 10, 2010, 16:51:53
going to have these spuds for tea, with  the asparagus in a stilton & asparagus quiche. Mmmmm
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First salad of this season
Mixed salad leaves, spring onions, radish, finished off with rhubarb crumble

THe first of the little gems, the first decent pulling of Ishikura spring onions (both from home), one of the last Durham Elf spring cabbages from the plot and the first pot-grown early spuds I've grown in donkeys years.... three Rockets planted in a 40cm square pot on the 17th of March yielded enough decent sized potatoes to make a 2 litre pudding basin of potat salad.... enough for me for four or five meals ......

Also ate a pod of raw peas and reckon there'll be a picking there to take to my folks tomorrow......

chrisc

My onions in the spag bol, Tone don't forget to freeze some of the asaragus for my tea when I visit in Oct.   :P     ;D ;D ;D

more potatoes & carrots, with pork chops (from a friends allotment)

 :o how do you grow pork chops  ;D

big salad pickings today - chives, watercress, mizuna, rocket, celtuce, lettuce etc and a few spuds for tomorrow's barbie