Today I Mostly Harvested....!

[MaureenHall]

Yesterday: Red currants, gooseberries, lettuce, potatoes, marrow, peas, broadies and borlottis.
Allotment dinner (except for the tuna and the custard)

Today: more potatoes, more lettuce, probably some onions and courgettes.

Hmmmmmmm never tried tuna with custard is it nice?

[Rhona]

Yesterday - salad leaves, rosemary and thyme... and five gorgeous long stem red roses (actually DH did that). Might try to post photo of them.

Today (so far) - white currants and gooseberries to go with breakfast.

[Winged one]

On Saturday, the OH harvested Sharpe's Express spuds and loads of brocolli, as well as 2 broad bean pods and 2 red onions from the plot. These were served yesterday (well, the spuds and brocolli) at lunch along with baby carrots and mangetout from the garden and some wild, poached salmon (flavoured with our own herbs!) - for lunch for 9 adults (my grandparents, 3 aunts and their 2 husbands) and the toddler. And each of the aunts went away with some brocolli for during teh week as well (we've hit a glut! ).

For tea last night, OH and myself picked some salad leaves from the garden, to have with some leftover salmon, some leftover spuds made into potato salad and a shop tomato.

Today, I have my usual bowl of salad for lunch (and I expect at least 3 more days this week - I am determined to be good!!) ). We are going to have the rest of the leftover cooked spuds as salad tonight, with leaves from the garden, and a tin of tuna from the press.

Tomorrow night is the leftover, uncooked spuds in the chorizo bake, with some mangetout added to it.

Wednesday, we are having a roast chicken and I will be making a stirfry I think with that - including mangetout, onion, garlic, broad beans, cabbage, brocolli and our first 2 whole sized courgettes!! And roasted spuds (old shop ones) with lots of garlic too!!

[kwa50]

Potatoes and more potatoes....

collected a whole big bowl full of potatoes - roasted them and had them for supper, they were fantastic - will definately be growing potatoes again and again.

kwa50
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[SlugLobber]

Last night I rummaged in the potato bag (very excited!) and found lots of New potatoes! Can't remember what variety they are, but I picked out 5 and had them with me dinner. Absolutely GORGEOUS, they were, too! Oh and two broad bean pods. Woo!

[Winged one]

We had a VERY smug trug dinner salad last night. I used a tin of tuna, the remains of a tin of sweetcorn, 3 eggs and 4 olives from my stores, and the rest was from our own efforts.

It started with me deciding to ignore the shop spring onion in the fridge and use the first of our own red onions for making the potato salad (last of the leftover new spuds from Sunday). I used the other half of that onion just sliced over the top of the plates.

While the eggs were hardboiling, I threw in the very last pod of fresh broad beans (which really was miserable so I added a small handful from the little box in the freezer!!) and 6 slices of our first proper courgette!

I pulled a whole lettuce from the garden, as well as a good handful of mixed cos, mizuna, and other mixed salad leaves (some of this mix also went into my lunchbox for today). And I also picked a couple of mangetout and pulled a couple of baby carrots each to eat raw.

OH also decided that he wanted a slice of toast (to "use up the old bread"). He announced when he had finished that he was full (he DOES eat salad but it doesn't normally satisfy him as a dinner) and it was only when he was tidying up that he said we'd had no tomatoes on it. "Yes dear, mine aren't ripe yet". "Oh you mean that was all our own stuff? Delicious".

Yes, smug indeed!!

Today, I have another box of salad (damn, just realised I forgot to get a couple of baby carrots for it) and I am going to put some mangetout and courgette into the chorizo bake, using up the last of the spuds that OH dug on Saturday.

[zazen999]

Loads of lettuce, loads of potatoes, beetroot, onions, shallots, garlic, all remaining peas in the garden to took down the straggly pea plants to make way for the beans.

[Alison]

Yesterday picked even more soft fruit and had a stir fry of courgettes, pepper, chilli, mange tout, peas and pak choi. Only the cashew nuts, onion and noodles weren't home grown. I love this time of year.

[karlandben]

i know it say today but this week i took a crop of 12 cucumbers, early pots, courgettes, and have been growing cabbage in green house, base leaves were so big couldnt walk past so took them off and had them in a curry, and strawberrys. dont you just love this time of year, my stomach does

[Saffer]

Took up all the onions and pulled down the last of the mange tout plants which have now had their day. These were in a large feeding trough and now have to decide what to put in their place????

[Newbie]

One courgette!

[Newbie]

one courgette!

[Winged one]

Today, I will be having a bacon and tomato pasta, with our own mangetout, courgette, onion and garlic, and maybe some brocolli. And my usual bowl of salad leaves for lunch.

[Two_Sheds]

I furtled a carrier bag full of Maris Peer spuds ~ big hooje ones!
I'll have them with some Hummous I think, and some frozen broadies

[SueA]

Had some lovely 'Colleen' potatoes last night (grown in a bag) with some homegrown mint, lovely! My harvest today unfortunately is just 2 strawberries, 3 raspberries & 2 single blackcurrants, not really enough to make a fruit salad with!