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Well today it was:WatercressRadishesLettuceSpring onionsBeetrootSmile PotatoesStrawberries for afters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you,but the greatness comes when you are really tested,when you take,some knocks,some disappointments;because only if youv'e been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Today I harvested and had for dinner - Summer PSB, Arran Pilot new potatoes, broad beans, strawberries. Harvested and put in fridge first courgette. Surplus strawberries given to neighbours, including the nice man who used to have the lottie next to mine but had to give up because of back problems (he lives just up the street from me). Lady nextdoor got strawberries and a bunch of sweet peas and a few broad beans.
today,I harvested pentland javelin spuds from container and had them boiled and tossed in butter.also had broad beans and kelvedon wonder peas in a salad of diana lettuce.it made the months of angst worrying whether i would get anything to grow seem a distant memory.
At lunchour today, I harvested some new potatoes to accompany baked sea bream tonight (on our own garlic but shop spring onions, cherry tomatoes and peppers) and some broad beans to accomany this.
I also harvested another 3 onions which were bolting and a handful of spinach. And was given from the chap 3 plots over 2 beautiful heads of lettuce (lunches for the rest of the week - great as mine had all bolted recently!). Some of the onions and probably the spinach will go into a stir fry tomorrow night with 1 mangetouot and 2 half tiny baby courgettes from the back garden, and some cabbage, last sprout of PSB, garlic, and broad beans from previous gatherings (some in fridge, froze the beans already so they wouldn't spoil). Possibly with a few new potatoes alongside as I think there are just enough for 2 nights!
ohh... wish i was at that stage as i only started growing this year and due to having to build beds from scratch held back by some aweful weather only got going in last few weeks my daughter and I walk up the garden at least once a day to check on progress our first couple of strawbs have been eaten by birds/slugs. Don't reckon any ofthe spring onions will reach full size as Stacey aka happybunny keeps eating them!!! Planted carrot and cucumber seeds acoupleof weeks ago along with pots and spinnach beet but no sign of them growing yet??
Yesterday we harvested more Mange Tout, more Broad Beans, 4 more courgettes, the first of the overwintering onions, more spuds (going camping today, so needed some onions n spuds to take with us!) more strawbs and the first of the rasps, plus about 2lb of goosegogs!
Wont be harvesting anything now til Sunday, as we are off to meet up with Madmax and ShirltheGirl at Shell Island in North Wales! Cant believe it, we're actually getting a holiday away from home, even tho its only 4 days away in a tent!
From this week i harvested 2.5lbs of Vales Emerald spuds from 2 seed potatoes in a very large flowerpot - not bad from a freebie (Thanks Minty!), several strawberries, some cut & come again lettuce leaves, some basil and my first garlic used fresh - all DELICIOUS!
Last night: sage and flat leaf parsley for pasta (sauce of pine nuts, lemon and parmesan...mmm...); followed by couple of handfuls of mixed salad leaves.
Nothing else ready yet (by a long way!), though have some whitecurrants which might end up on our granola by next week!
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