Today I Mostly Harvested....!

[cottage garden]

I harvested all our onions and shallots today and have hung them in huge nets in the garage. Also have pulled up three anya potato plants for dinners this week. Plus collected eggs from our girls.

For tea tonight, I picked some red and orange chard, some of the not so healthy onions, salad and herbs (for a lasagne) looked at the loganberries guiltily because I haven't got ready to pick them yet and talked encouragingly to the courgettes to try and get them to be ready to be picked soon....

[Comfreyfan]

Today we had more first earlies and calabrese - I love home grown calabrese, it's just nothing like shop bought. I put in twice as many plants this year, still not enough - well there's not that much space. But the excitement was eating the first 2 runner beans, straight from the row - love it!!

[vegmandan]

First carrots today.

Well chuffed with them.

[sharonr]

Today I picked peas, runnerbeans, some baby carrots and dug up some more spuds.
Picked some parsley, tarragon and garlic for the roast chicken.
When I sliced some of the runnerbeans I had enough to put some in the freezer.
My son loved the carrots he said they tasted better than the shop ones, you could taste the flavour.

[cazsudz]

6 courgettes
3lb charlotte spuds
lobjoits green lettuce
rocket
mustard greens
1 runner bean

[sewer rat]

Just back from digging up some more Lady Christl and Charlotte spuds - 30kg of each

[Winged one]

On Friday, we had our roast chick with a stir fry of our own veg.

Saturday, no veg apart from an onion as we had a seafood risotto again. (And moules mariniere for lunch).

Yesterday, we had brocolli soup for starters with lunch (very simple - cook the brocolli and an onion in some veggie stock ind liquidise, serve with a dollop of greek yoghurt in the bowl), and new spuds for mains (with BBQ'd saussies and a couple of spare ribs).

I spent most of the day in the kitchen, but not a lot of it with our own produce. 2 big trays of roasted veggies with lunch (shop ones - for lunch and also with some pasta and bacon for dinner tomorrow or Wednesday). 2 chocolate cakes (the toddler really wanted to go baking), one of which we gave to OH's uncle as he went back to hospital for the week. Stewed rhubarb which we had some with custard late yesterday evening (and the rest will be had as small crumbles tonight - I'll already have the oven on after all).

And I also used the rest of the brocolli that was really just about on the cusp, as well as the cauliflower I found on the plot, to make some brocolli and cauliflower canelloni, to a Jamie Oliver recipe. Took a while, but it looks yum and the filling tasted good too. This is sitting in the preset oven for tonight's dinner (I always prefer to have Monday's dinner made on a Sunday).

Then I collapsed (after doing a MOUNTAIN of washing up) to finish off the pinot grigio and watch the last 5 minutes of Top Gear. (Oh, I also put together today's lunch as well - another box of salad from the garden and the plot).

[SlugLobber]

Harvested 3 courgettes on Friday, plus 3 broadbean pods. Picked more lettuce leaves and on Sat one parsnip and one carrot. They were too early, though, so I put them into a spare bag of compost - hope they're ok!

[Winged one]

Today, I are mostly having: Sharpe's Express potatoes with some calabrese and probably some salmon from freezer.

I also have a large dish of mangetout in the fridge to use, as well as 1/3 of a courgette, small handful of spinach. Today's haul included a small handful of pea pods, 4 small cauliflowers, a supermarket bag full of calabrese (I can see brocolli soup, and broc and cauli caneloni coming at the weekend again), and enough spuds for tomorrow as well, as well as the last few japanese onions, a tuft of garlics (all very small bulbs - from one we forgot to harvest last summer) and about 8 red onions that had flopped.

And I had unfortunately also gone to the veggie shop over the weekend so 4 moire courgettes, about 6 peppers and a bunch of parsnips and carrots and 2 leeks to be used up as well which I haven't grown.

[greenfingers007]

Today I harvested my potatoes (dont ask me what they were) carrots both white and orange radish english breakfast. just waiting for my red cabbage and my cauliflower to start producing.

[sewer rat]

Lifted 75kg Charlotte potatoes, and shawed the remaining 12 drills.
Picked 12 kg courgettes, 1kg rocket, 12 cabbages, 2kg broad beans, 1kg peas, 12 lettuce, 7 cukes.

[Two_Sheds]

Charlotte spuds, Cylindra beetroot, carrots, Golden Teepee yellow Frenchies, Tendergreen & Canadian Wonder Frenchies (all dwarf), lettuce, shallots, Red Karmen onions.

[wiccanlou]

I mainly laid in bed willing a migraine away thinking i should be down my allotment getting spuds for tommorrow.

[sewer rat]

Today I picked, pulled or dug up the following to make up my veg boxes.
60kg Charlotte potatoes, 3 kg Red Duke of York potatoes, 3 kg Lady Christl potatoes, 20kg courgettes, 46 cucumbers, 3kg rocket, 7 heads of chard, 20kg broad beans, 2 kg peas, 14 lettuce.
I also harvested for calling customers a further 12kg Charlotte, 2kg Red Dukes, 14 cucumbers, 11 lettuce, 3kg courgettes and 5kg broad beans

[wellie]

Trousers and I went to The Lottie again today for TO WATER.... as you do!
And, given that it was Wellie's wise plan to plant stuff not to harvest until much later in the season, we just harvested some of Trousers's 2nd Early Potatoes Mostly.
Mostly, they are 'The Mutts Nutts', and far bigger than either of us expected from a Bargain Basement Homebase, if you don't buy these now I'll just GIVE them to you free next week, it almost said on the packet.

Back at Holly Cottage, I only planted Hazel At The Hill's Runner Bean Seeds wot she sent me, and already (so soon) I am completely knee-deep Angel. (Kill you when I see you Sweetart?!)

Seriously.... it's really lovely to be picking just a handful of this (Mangetout) and a handful of that (courgettes) and a pinch (summer savoury) of this, and a smidge or that (chervil, basil) and just making your evening dinner up as you go.

Our tomatoes are just beginning to happen right now (a month later than last and previous years), and our first cucumber was harvested day before yesterday...

Each and every year is so different. You?