This time of year...

[zazen999]

I love it.

Things start being ready to harvest, and rather than a mere addition to the meal, home grown becomes the basis on which I plan my meals.

Today, I had a potato from school [one of the students put a fork through it and chucked it on the compost, it landed by my car so I took it home for eating], some broad beans, loads of goldensweet mangetout and victorian purple podded peas, a small garlic pulled from 'the wrong place', a large onion and lots of lettuce. So I made a curried veg mix, a salad and had felafels with it.

Nom.

I'm not starting the 'what I made today' thread again but I just wanted to big up the fact that things are starting to be ready in amongst all the doom and gloom of the rubbish weather we have been having.

[cardiffsteve]

I hate show offs.

[veggiechicken]

Agreed Zaz. I've been eating from the garden for a while now. Nothing exceptional or particularly summery but a few new potatoes here, some peas, leeks and onions there, salad leaves, rocket, spring onions and chard. The raspberries are just starting to ripen and the wild strawberries too.
I'm thankful for everything that I can pick and whatever it is, it will always find a place on my plate!

[zazen999]

I've been having Jeannie's Ultra Fine Parsley, normal flat leaf parsley, some wild garlic, garlic chives and a few other things for a few weeks - but it's different when the pickings form the main part of the meal.

[veggiechicken]

Its all about building your meal around what you've grown, rather than buying the ingredients for a specific recipe. Where's the challenge in that? I can't be doing with recipes!!

[Florence Fennel]

You ladies have given me hope for the coming weeks, thank you!

[bearded bloke]

I live in a state of eternal optimism

[binley100]

me too .........only its slowly getting more difficult .......is there light at the end of the tunnel or ar we having a power cut?

[bearded bloke]

Dunno Bin's but I aint holding my breath for anything like as good a crop as last year set a few more trays of seeds this afternoon,was hoping to do some direct sowing t'moz but that looks unlikely given the current rate of precipitation

[Feral007]

I can't be doing with recipe's either! Which drives my friends batty when they want the recipe for what I made. A lot of it used to include - whatever's in the fridge.

Now it's - whatever's alive in the garden. Thankfully the boy is equally as keen to eat from the garden, so instead of wandering what to cook he's learning to look in the garden and take it from there.

[Peas'n'Kews]

the OH just went shopping (its his job!) and I told him not to buy much veg as we have peas and broad beans just coming ready, plus enough lettuce to feed a herd or rabbits.

And then theres the herbs and the wild strawberries...

I love it when the plate is garden-full!

[chris]

We've seasonal recipe books, which are great for planning meals around what you have/are going to harvest for the coming week I've eaten some broadies last month (picked a barrier bag full last night, which was great, forgot about harvesting them - and they've just produced their hearts out). But that's it so far.

[Headfry]

I have been harvesting honey......
Thanks to my lovely little Girls