Today I Mostly Harvested....!

[rustylady]

Went to lottie this evening, weather's been awful - when I'm off work it's raining, when I'm at work it's good. Anyway, today I picked more runner beans, courgettes, chard, potatoes, my first sweetcorn cob (dinner tonight, yum yum), my red karmen onions that appear not to be red karmen (well one or two of them were red - heaven knows what the others are, but they are onions so I'll eat them).

[Two_Sheds]

Picked my first sweetcorn (Swift F1) - five fat cobs, 100% pollination, perfect.
Also 5 parsnips, lots of borlotti, and some big fat Chantenay carrots

[Farmer_Gyles]

yesterday and today - several pounds of red and white spuds, 3 pounds french beans, 1 pound runners, 2 cherry toms, 1 normal size tom

gave about 3 pounds of spuds, several onions, pound of french beans, half pound of runners to the old boy over the road

[zazen999]

Since the last post:
onions
carrots
beans, french and borlotti & sophie coco
courgettes
beetroot
blueberries
potatoes
basil

[pjh75]

My first sweetcorn... I was so excited, full cobs that tasted delicious, from plant to pot in under 10 minutes.

[di]

1st time of posting on this thread but feeling slightly proud!!
Several pots(think Maris Peer?)
enough carrots for tonight & tomorrows tea(orange & yellow)
After 4yrs of trying our 1st ever 2(very small)kohl rabi
Enough french beans to nearly fill the freezer!(some yellow,some green~sorry i'm bad with names!)
Lots & lots of courgettes
A few raspberries
Some spring onions
And almost pulled some beetrot but decided they could wait!!
Also yesterday went to mums & picked blackberries & lavender(for shortbread)
Was also given some chillis from our lottie neighbour.

[Winged one]

On Sunday night, we had a pasta and tomato dish which included a couple of rashers and 3 slices of smoked salami, along with some shop mushrooms and peppers. And our own - onions, garlic, peas, mangetout, french beans, borlotti beans, brocolli, and courgette. Made enough to put a family dinner sized portion in the freezer too, to have another night as a pasta bake (grate some cheese over top, into oven for 20 mins, and ping - dinner ready!).

Last night, had red spuds (volunteers so no idea of variety, but definitely not roosters, and lovely fluffy mash from them) mashed, with some supermarket cabbage (summer ones were a disaster this year for me) and bacon. A portion of spuds for another night is in freezer (will do my reheat with a casserole in oven trick with those - really worth as these were yum spuds!).

[Wren]

Today i harvested about 7lb of green tomato's ( guess what i will be making tonight ).

Wren

[Newbie]

Have missed a few days harvesting through feeling a bit under the weather so last night i ventured down to the plot & picked 4 courgette/mini-marrows, thousands of french beans, and a good handful of runner beans.

[Newbie]

Last night saw my 1st Pea harvest (was late starting them off) & got enough for 1 person, plus a load of french beans, 2 courgettes, dozens of cherry tomatoes & another load of Blackberries from the hedge. Processed the lot into Tomato & courgette pasta sauce, 3 Apple & Blackberry crumbles (with apples donated from friends tree) and had the beans / peas with dinner. Yum!

[Winged one]

Over the weekend, off the plot we had:

Brocolli soup for saturday lunch.
Anya spuds baked with lamb chops and stock (neither our own), rosemary, shop veggies (mushrooms, peppers and tomatoes) and our own veg (yellow tomatoes, courgette, mange tout, french beans, red onion, garlic) - all in the one roasting dish for Saturday dinner.

Sunday dinner was Roast chicken with lemon and tarragon, roasted anya spuds, and some boiled cabbage (courtesy of plot neighbour) and steamed spinach (our own). And a couple of onions roasted with the spuds - well worth it!!

Monday dinner was a chicken curry using leftover chick, onion, french beans, baby courgettes, some mild curry powder, stock made with chick carcass and some greek yoghurt at the last minute (which worked great in the toddler's dinner, but as we were eating later, I only added ours then -cept OH turned the heat up and it split!! Grr!!)

Last night was lamb rogan josh from the freezer with the addition of some fresh tomatoes (and it had used onion and garlic in the original making too).

Tomight, we are going to do Jamie Oliver's tomatoes with linguine as we have a lovely lot of yellow tumbler toms from the hanging basket - squish the toms with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and some seasoning, add the hot linguinge just as it finishes cooking, and serve immediately - Oh Nurse!!!!

I will be letting OH fend for himself in the freezer tomorrow night again as I have a retirement do to atttend and should get fed there (I hope - or else tis the chipper en route home after much vino which ain't good for the alleged diet!!).

[Farmer_Gyles]

saturday picked 3 pounds of french beans and a few cherry toms
last night picked 4 pounds runners, 2 pounds french beans, another half a dozen toms (cherry and plum)
all i have left now are the beans, toms, sprouts, 1 red cabbage and a couple of swede - but i've sown loads of seeds for crops to grow over the winter .....

[Wren]

The runner beans have been loving all this wet weather and have gone into glut mode. Just 3 days ago i i harvested about 1lb of runner beans and got another 1lb off them today and there are loads more to come.

I am pleased that the staggered planting of the runner beans seems to have paid off . I planted just 8 plants originally, and then 4 weeks later i planted 12 more and i have been harvesting beans for about 6 weeks now. They are of the good old fashioned 'Scarlet Emperor' and they have that wonderful old fashioned runner bean taste that commercial grown frozen beans can never get close too. The first planted lot are glutting fast now and the second lot planted 4 weeks later are just starting to get large enough to crop a few and i can see that it wont be long until they are glutting too judging by the amount of young beans on them

I have been keeping a close eye on the remainder of the sub Arctic tomatoes after a bliddy thieving squirrel had it away with lots o my fruits ( found someone that likes them) and have noticed what at first glance looks like they are starting to ripen at last on closer inspection ' not so' . on closer inspection some of them have turned a light fawn colour on top and the flesh under the skin feels soft an mushy. This is first sign o blight me thinks so i have had the rest off the green fruits off the plant and i will be busy making chutney on Monday eve. might as well salvage what i can and have something to show for all the watering and care i have given them.

ate my first swede last Sunday too! was yum.

Wren

[kentvegplot]

More toms today - Piccolo, Giant Belgian both in tunnel.
One ripe pepper (they are taking ages this year)
One cucumber - and lots more still to come too
One melon - but it wasn't ripe. I had to try it as it had been the same shape and size for about 3 months. Ah well, on to the compost heap.
Raspberries - a couple of large handfuls, all for me!
Some Madiera Maroon beans - need to 'taste test' the beans before deciding whether to dry the whole harvest.
5 apples - that's all the birds/squirrels have left me.....
One aubergine - yum
One courgette.....

[zazen999]

Since last post.
Peas, all the rest of the Borlotti beans and the Pinto have started to be ok to pick [have turned speckly when podded.

Tomatoes; picking red, nearly red and some green as a few plants were looking blighty. they are in the shed most of them, waiting to go red/yellow.

Have had 8 sweetcorn since Saturday.

Went to show my OH the longest chilli pepper, and it came off in my hand; so one chilli pepper.

Courgettes, but they are now looking a bit used and abused [the plants].

The last of the red onion set onions.

Dug most of the spuds up, will do the others this week. Very muddy work but enjoyable. Also in the shed drying out.