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last of the chard & loads of rhubarb.
Not alot else ready to eat but think the radish may be ready in a few days time.

Have been able to give family, over the Easter week (up to 16 of us twice a day, not counting homemade bread and marmalade and jam at breakfast): asparagus, chard, potatoes, micro-greens (grown in a  gutter indoors), rhubarb cake, artichokes, land cress; and masses and masses of frozen things day after day: red and yellow raspberries, gooseberries, blackberries, broad beans, purple sprouting.

Would have had to spend a fortune to feed them like that from shops. I am never sure if I save money by having allotments, but I think I did this week.

mixed salad and radish, now eating some easter egg  ;D

Asparagus... and Anya potatoes with Lamb Chops...
and more asparagus soup...
:)

Loads of cauli.. ;D..made into beauutiful chilli pasta & cauliflower cheese...YUM..(I'm stuffed now) ;)

frozen potato and onion cakes with bacon, eggs and award winning sausage from someone on here  ;D

First strawberry, well actually four.  Yum! and a few rather small peas.  Parsley, rhubarb, russian kale and fat hen and tea made from goose grass.

Leek and asparagus soup.

Quote from: Digeroo on May 06, 2011, 13:27:37
First strawberry, well actually four.  Yum! and a few rather small peas.  Parsley, rhubarb, russian kale and fat hen and tea made from goose grass.

I hope that wasn't your entire days calorie intake   ;D ;D

I had some lovely fat asparagus which the rain has got going, but I see it has also got the slugs going also.  I think I shall have to give in and buy some Nematodes

used up the last of the pizza topping on yesterday's pizza so took out 16 lb of mixed toms, some courgettes, peppers, basil out of the freezer and added some of our onions that have already started to go to seed  :-\ , oregano and garlic to make some more  ;D

Parsnips with my chicken roast.    ;D

Asparagus.. last of the sprouting broccoli, Anya from store (virtually all gone now) ...  ::)

Spring cabbage [hispi], radish, lettuce. Leaving asparagus to grow now until next year..

First of the broad beans, spinach and asparagus - all in a risotto :D

5 mangetouts each, lettuce, rocket, cress and spring onion.

new potatoes  with frozen cauli, french beans and the last of the peas  :)

Harvested a big batch of Choi Sum just when it was about to flower. Deliberately grown it earlier than is normally stated just for a smaller crop... yum, it was called sauteed in garlic and olive oil ;)

This weekend, we ate: 2 big artichokes (half each! delish), 1 kilo of strawberries, shared with some friends, a handful of peas (rather wishful thinking on my part) and a few new potatoes, firkled from under the plants...

Yesterday... Asparagus! and potatoes from store...
I turned a compost bin and it has a lot of French Sorrel growing by it... so I hagrvested it before it got trampled and intend to try a "sorrel soup"... today...  :)

oakleaf lettuce, red mustard, red mizuna and beetroot leaves from my red salad bed  :)