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Rhubarb fresh and blackcurrant from the freezer, also chard and oregano for dinner.  Stored tromboncino squash. 

A few leaves of lettuce, rocket, spring onion, cress and landcress for lunch salad with just one tiny new shoot of celery (survived under cloche and fleece on top whilst plants of the same batch did not survive in greenhouse  ???) and salad burnett herb leaf tips for flavouring.

At the moment it seems to be Radish, radish and even more radish!!!  Didn't think I had sown that much  ;D

Still having potatoes from store... and PSB but the first real cut of asparagus...  :)

As a newby-allotmenteer...nowt but rhubarb as yet. But after 3 hours of weeding, I wish I had googled 'nettle recipes' before I headed off to the plot rather than when I got home. ::)

 ;D re the nettle recipes Gerbera, Ive never plucked up the courage to try them but do use nettles to make a stinky 'tea' fertiliser ;)

Today I've had swede, kale & rhubarb. Picked lettuce for tomorrow. xJane

Not a newby but can't manage to produce all year round. despite a lot of trying!  Still just rhubarb for now! and a lot of herbs: mint, parsley, coriander, chives. Lettuces are still tiny and the turnips...welll read my thread about them!  Still, peas are flowering.... and the first spuds are just a couple of weeks away.
AH yes, got the first strawberries! 6 of them  ;D  ;D but delish!

Rhubarb, more PSB more asparagus...  :)

Quote from: saddad on May 15, 2012, 13:34:32
Rhubarb, more PSB more asparagus...  :)

That reminds me I have cooked rhubarb in the fridge. I'll eat it even if no one else is keen  ::)

Yesterday, We had the first hen sized, firkled lady Chrystl spuds with a bit of beef, broccoli, sweetcorn, carrots and french beans out of the freezer  ;D

Dug up a volunteer potato and found 8 small spuds.  Very nice.  Volumia.

Had the last of the PSB and leeks yesterday, with frozen runners. Then rhubarb and blackberry(frozen) crumble
The hungry gap starts now!!

Quote from: saddad on May 13, 2012, 20:13:39
Still having potatoes from store... and PSB but the first real cut of asparagus...  :)

PSB... what is this??

Purple sprouting broccoli  :)

Lettuce leaves, raddish,spring onions and rhubarb  ;D

Sweetheart cabbage. It was a youngster, but oh so yummo! :D

Strawberries and they were absolutely lovely.... picked four tubs full.  :)

So completely different from out of season / imported shop bought ones that have little taste. If only Mrs R would stop buying the things and be patient - the wait is worth it.

Next visit to the plot I must take more / larger containers as I left half behind for fear of squashing them. Another trip tomorrow if it doesn't rain too much tonight.

New potatoes, provence salad mix, radish and a gone to seed red onion, followed by rhubarb pie  ;D

Made soup today out of frozen and stored veg. Cats protection lady came and relieved me of my surplus of frozen tomatoes and redcurrants. At last I can defrost one of the  freezers

Some beetroot, roasted - very tasty. My wife made a courgette, onion and french bean soup from the few I brought back from the lottie. Picked all the cherries today while there were still some left - got about a kilo worth. Snacked on redcurrants but they're  a tad sour. Tried a crystal lemon cuke but wasn't quite ripe. Tried the first peas straight from the pod - very sweet but not enough yet for a meal. Plenty of strawberries but a tad disappointing, think I'll replace them this year.

Triamble squash, rhubarb  from the freezer, Sorrel and kale salad, shallotts which we had to pull early as they were in the way.

X X Jeannine