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Had the first two courgettes of the year today.

Only 2 plants in flower, but each has 2 more going to be ready in a few days

Potatoes Annabelle, very impressed no scab.  Broadbeans just caught them full pods but still sweet and tender.  Delicious.  Courgettes fried in a bit of butter, they seem to be so slow filling out this year.  Need sunshine.

Lots of mange-touts but I have fallen out of love with the little yellow ones. Also purple. Small and tough. In future I will grow only the large green ones that can be picked in minutes and fill a pan. Snap pea "Sugar Ann" quite nice, but too small and fiddly to pick.

Is there a larger snap pea?

Potatoes coming on at last.

Lunch was a nearly salad, first cuc, purple springies and lettuce. Tea was calabrese in cheese sauce, first of the carrots and purple potato mash, followed by mixed fruit, the first of the blueberries are ready, yum ;D

Potatoes - but now we've run out so I'll hunt for my waders and go down for some more tomorrow.

Strawberries, cherries, lettuce, mangetout, peas, potatoes, chard, gooseberries... not all at the same meal!  :)

Spuds, the last of last years onions, mange tout , strawberries black currants and 1 tomato from the greenhouse

The first tomato, goosegogs, lettuce, broadies,carrots,garlic scapes and the first fresh garlic,

XX Jeannine

Potatoes... and lovely they were too.  :)

Raspberries, blackcurrants, broadbeans, Lady Chrystal, parsley, mangetout, calabrese
3 dwarf beans, courgettes.   one sungold tomato, it might be the last, total this year 6.   

Quote from: Digeroo on July 13, 2012, 22:54:52
Raspberries, blackcurrants, broadbeans, Lady Chrystal, parsley, mangetout, calabrese
3 dwarf beans, courgettes.   one sungold tomato, it might be the last, total this year 6.   

You're doing better than I am with those there tomatoes!!  ;)

I have three greenhouses (not huge but..) and my parents double-glazed centrally heated conservatory all with their own planting of tomatoes and still not managed one ripe one yet.

Oh well......patience  ::) ;)

Lady Chrystl's in the potato salad, along with some spring onions, carrots, a few peas and radishes, a load of salad leaves.... this time of year (now the outdoor early spuds are coming through) is generally one of the easiest to feed myself from the garden/plot... note to self, sow more carrots and radishes and get another load of beetroot out cos the pigeons have wrecked the first lot and find a home for those other beans and once the armoured pigeon nets are up put those peas out, and the brussels etc.....

The last two or three days.....first yellow cherry tomatoes from the greenhouse, ditto chillies, I've had about 8 chillies so far. Potatoes galore, lettuces galore, rocket, parsley, mangetout, baby carrots, ruby chard as stalks in stirfry and the leaves as spinach in a roast meal, strawberries galore, one or two autumn raspberries, two courgettes, coriander, broad bean tops and I'm eyeing up the pods now. A cucumber is dangling in the greenhouse but we have a shop one to use up first.

Yesterday I had my onions, peas and steamed spuds with racks of ribs.   :D

exactly at this minute I'm eating cold potatoes with French dressing...Charlotte....steamed on Sunday with mint in the water below....why do they always taste nicer cold?

Tonight's supper was:

A nice glass of white wine with absolutely fresh peas, eaten raw from the shell.

A nice glass of red wine with absolutely fresh broad beans, cooked to a turn, with a little butter and hunks of home-made rye bread.

Simple and superb.

Calabrese, broad beans, new potatoes, black kale, lettuce, radish, courgettes, red onion, strawberries, raspberries :)

Found a red currant bush loaded with berries today down by a river.. so I had to remove them to save them from the birds!!  Then made a mixed jelly/seedles jam by adding some raspberries.. So I call it jamelly..

Broadies, carrotts, lettuce, gooseberry pie,tomatoes XX Jeannine

Quote from: Melbourne12 on July 17, 2012, 21:39:06
Tonight's supper was:

A nice glass of white wine with absolutely fresh peas, eaten raw from the shell.

A nice glass of red wine with absolutely fresh broad beans, cooked to a turn, with a little butter and hunks of home-made rye bread.

Simple and superb.

The wine sounds superb!! Did you grow it yourself?  :P

Seriously it sounds good to me. I love a small chunk of cheese then sweet beetroot, grated carrot, cherry tomatoes, spring onions, cold new potatoes and lettuce or mixed summer salad leaves from the plot or the greenhouse. If not this then exactly the same without the cheese.  ;)