First Home-grown Produce of the Year Eaten today...!!!!

[northepaul]

As the title says really

Picked our first crop of peas...this was my 7 year old's brainchild - she generally wont eat green veg at all, but promised if we grew our own peas she would eat them.
Got her to pick & pod them - (there were only about 15 or so pods ready, but thats beside the point)
I have never seen her wolf down veg as fast as that...
Makes you feel good doesnt it!

[Jeanied]

Did she eat them cooked or raw, Northepaul? My peas never make it home from the lottie!

[T8Ter]

It's brilliant getting children involved, my grandaughter is keeping twice weekly checks on the strawberries and tomatoes.

[jacob marley]

I have been eating spring cabbage for about 6 weeks but that do's not count hoping to dig some spuds next week .
Had some Cornish new spuds tonight they was nice thank you Cornwall...jacob

[Tomatoking]

Well, although we've been picking plenty of spinach for over a month now, which we planted over winter in the small old greenhouse, last night we had our first picking of radish which we enjoyed as our 'apero' which we ate sliced with nicely salted butter! Yummy!

[Florence Fennel]

Beautifully white and delicious cauliflower harvested and steamed yesterday with Sunday lunch.

[Two_Sheds]

Peas already!
Mine are still only about 5" tall, and the pea moth is due any day

[smallfrog]

do herbs count??? my mint is doing really well this year and is sage.
sadly no sign of anything veg like and don't mention peas its a case of 3rd time lucky and there barely hanging on.

[ginger ninger]

As the title says really

Picked our first crop of peas...this was my 7 year old's brainchild - she generally wont eat green veg at all, but promised if we grew our own peas she would eat them.
Got her to pick & pod them - (there were only about 15 or so pods ready, but thats beside the point)
I have never seen her wolf down veg as fast as that...
Makes you feel good doesnt it!

It make's you go all warm in side when ya get ya first veg of the season. Fantastic that she scoffed the lot, that must have given you a great sense of pride NP. I'm like Jeanie, my peas never reach the plate...love them raw.

do herbs count??? my mint is doing really well this year and is sage.
sadly no sign of anything veg like and don't mention peas its a case of 3rd time lucky and there barely hanging on.

If you've grown it I would say it count's, if the pea's are big enough to use the pea shoot's eat those, that way you'll have at least made use of them. I've sown lot's of pea's just for the shoot's...there yummy raw in salad's.

[Shadylane]

Peas already!
Mine are still only about 5" tall, and the pea moth is due any day

Hm mine too and they look rubbish. Pale and nibbled
Still eating leeks but I guess that doesn't count. We've had some lettuce that we overwintered uncloched and miraculously survived the snow. Wasn't organised with the spring cabbage - it never got planted out. It's in the ground now (at least I think it's spring but who knows) and hopefully won't be long. Oh and of course we've had rhubarb

[leah]

great way to get the kids involved, it's lovely in the summer when my litle girl helps herself to runner beans and peas and just munches away on them when she is playing in the garden Hoping her little brother will this year too! I keep trying him with peppers in the hope that when they are ready to eat (fingers and toes crossed we get some), he will want to eat them too!

Our peas are over 3ft now, but no signs of flowers yet! can't wait for the kids to dive into them! ( personally can't stand peas, or sweetcorn it's wrong for veg to be so sweet

[Alison]

I've got flowers on the peas in the polytunnel but the outdoors ones are well behind. Am also very excited about the tiny wee mange tout in the polytunnel, they're only about the size of your fingernail but definitely there so fingers crossed they'll be ready for eating soon - lots more flowers too so should be good.

[rogesse]

Humph - peas are a sore subject at the moment - OH got a bit carried away with the strimmer yesterday and reduced a whole row to tattered 1 inch stalks. Good job he's got a shed......