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New potatoes,  and beetroot , courgette

Lifted some second early/salad potatoes Charlotte. Size and and yield good, looked great and tasted better.
Picked lots more, and ate some, broad beans Witkiem Manita. 

   New potatoes, cauli and a few peas.

  My 3 year old grandson loves it when we dig the potatoes up he keeps shouting " We've got treasure"!!!!

Wonder what the other allotment people think we are doing!!!


 X Chas

Chas I had a very excited phone call last night. Well more of a boast ;) really about all that had been eaten from the lotty round the corner from you ;) ;D. She loves filling her trug & taking her treasure home for the family. Little one wanted to take some 'next door' so of she went. A voice shouted 'mum, which next door?' She was told Ruth & Rog. She said ' I'm on the right path then' ;D.

Peas (gorgeous), peppers, carrots, lettuce, raspberries, worcesterberry, blackcurrants, courgette flower.  I forgot to pull an onion but did use thyme, rosemary and garlic.

Hopefully a few courgettes by the weekend too

Alpine strawberries mmm...gooseberries mmm..and few cherries are still left on tree too, yum....raspberries..raspberries..strawberry..ohh..ripe plum..raspberries, peas (yum lovely)..'munch, munch'...bit of cauli..'cruch'..lettuce...raspberries..raspberries..tomato!..mm..lovely..few red currants.."i wonder if green blackcurrants are ready?.. YES..mm so sweet" ;D"huh..getting full now..I better go and get kettle on now..and then is time to make some dinner.." ;D ;D
And dinner was rapberries with yoghurt.. ::) ;D
Should really change the heading as "my day at the allotment".. ;D
I did sniff some apples too..but they are not ready for another 4 weeks yet..won't be long! ;)
Why do they call me fruit lady at the lottie?...

Quote from: grannyjanny on July 04, 2011, 19:35:04
Chas I had a very excited phone call last night. Well more of a boast ;) really about all that had been eaten from the lotty round the corner from you ;) ;D. She loves filling her trug & taking her treasure home for the family. Little one wanted to take some 'next door' so of she went. A voice shouted 'mum, which next door?' She was told Ruth & Rog. She said ' I'm on the right path then' ;D.

Hi Grannyjanny,

    they are so cute when they are small. Tell your daughter to look at my granchildrens' garden  they are growing bits of everything!!! All mixed up together.  lol

X Chas

Plums!  How lucky you are Goodlife!  Mine have a long way to go but boy is the wait worth it!

I have been eating beetroot, roasted with olive oil and balsamic vinegar with melted goats cheese on top and on think toasted farmhouse bread.   I must say that a visit to the bathroom the day after the beetroot gave me a hell of a fright until I remembered what I had eaten.

Also been eating cauliflower cheese with my ALR's.   Delish

courgette and mint salad just posted the recipe on the recipe site ;)

Tonight we had Lamb chops with Caulie, Broccoli, Turnip, Peas, Carrots also Shallots and Beetroot, now I have wind, :)

Broad beans, more peas!, a dinky kohl rabi, gold rush courgette, tondo di nizza courgette, glen prosen and goldrush? raspberries and a few worcesterberries.

The resident blackbirds and song thrush have eaten most of the worcesterberrries, which I was going to pick this weekend, little buggers!  :D

Chard, garlic and Charlotte potatoes. 

All my salad potatoes seem to fall apart on cooking this year.  Anybody else have this problem?  They should be waxy and firm.   ???  I guess it may be due to our very dry spring?

All my salad potatoes seem to fall apart on cooking this year.  Anybody else have this problem?  They should be waxy and firm.   

Yes I've the same problem with Nicola which is 50% Charlotte. Very disappointing but perhaps they'll improve now the rain has arrived. That is if the blight doesn't catch them first....

Now that you mentioned..half of my charlotta's broke in steamer..I thought it was just me..
well..had also some garlic..raspberries..plums..tomatoes..peas..pea pods..strawberries..little nible of apple (wasn't quite ready yet..)
Tomorrow will be stir fry day..loads of veg to get through.. ;D

Peas,Peas,and more peas. I posted on facebook to my grandaughter that this year she had missed the 1st of the peas. To say the least she was not impressed that her Grandma had eaten them this year. Others... Potatoes, strawberries, raspberries,onions, courgettes,beetroot,beans,shallots, peppers. hopefully lots more to come. Enjoy everyone.

Caught some mackerel today so a bit of homegrown salad and plum crumble to follow. Nice bottle of wine. Sitting back now looking forward to a nice malt and a cigar.

I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight.

Quote from: Dandytown on July 05, 2011, 10:32:01
Plums!  How lucky you are Goodlife!  Mine have a long way to go but boy is the wait worth it!

I have been eating beetroot, roasted with olive oil and balsamic vinegar with melted goats cheese on top and on think toasted farmhouse bread.   I must say that a visit to the bathroom the day after the beetroot gave me a hell of a fright until I remembered what I had eaten.

Also been eating cauliflower cheese with my ALR's.   Delish

Ah the beetroot scare - given me a few scares in the past (at my age)

Yesterday I roasted Tomatoes, Garlic, Beetroot, Carrots, Onion and Courgetted with Chicken and Parma Ham. Bit of balsamic and olive oil yum. Followed by raspberry "eton mess". Today we had Pork cassarole (garlic, onions, carrots and apples with green beans and cabbage,

yesterday: potatoes, broad beans and peas.
today:  onions and garlic

BLAUHILDE beans.......
Desiree potatoes......
Courgettes fried with chopped bacon.
Some blackberries on the plot.
;D

My roasties, swede and runners with my roast beef.    :D