Today I Mostly Harvested....!

[sewer rat]

Up at 4am to pick 10kg broad beans, 5kg peas, 10 bags of oriental salad mix and a crate of courgettes for local healthfood / seafood shop. Back home now to print off labels for Salad Rocket and the Oriental Mix.

[Winged one]

Had cauli last night in the end instead of calabrese, and made a yummy sauce (if I say so myself) for with the salmon - reduced half a bottle of wine to about 1/3 its amount, added about the same vol of cream to remaining wine, freshly cracked black pepper and some freshly picked and chopped dill (or fennel?) from garden.

Tonight, we are having the chorizo bake with more new spuds which is already in the oven ready to cook all by itself (I have a magic oven!). Just my kind of Friday night easy dinner. Will have a few mangetout and maybe some calabrese steamed with this - depending on how soon after we get home the wine is opened and how late the toddler goes to bed (both reducing my cooking time/abilities!!).

Tomorrow (as I can't get into the Vine most weekends), we will be having calabrese soup (I hope to make it early enough to bring some over to my gran's when we go over for OH to cut her lawn - isn't he sweet!!) and dinner will probably involve a large veggie stirfry, new potatoes, and some meat/fish.

Sunday, we have OH's uncle for lunch again, and he really enjoyed the "proper" spuds last week (he is getting "institution" mash all week at the mo), so have to go digging for those (may try to get some to bring to gran on sat as well), and I think the roast chick from the freezer. With lots of veggies.

Monday, I am thinking that I will do the cauli and broc canneloni again, as they were really yum last week and I have loads of both to use up again!!

[HeyWayne]

My most plentiful harvet yet last night:

2 courgettes
2 handfuls of Stephens Peas
20-30 Martock broad bean pods
2 potato plants (enough and more for two dinners)
6-7 asparagus peas
3-4 Aqua Dulce broad bean pods (theyre on their way out)

Also took home all the red onions I pulled up the other day.

[milly2306]

potatoes, enough for 4 meals, baby carrots - gorgeous, tomatoes, salad leaves
yummy!

[Newbie]

2 courgettes & a handful of french beans!

[zazen999]

13 courgettes - 7 of them yellow so made happiness soup [see nigella].

a borlotti beans to see if the beans were mottled inside [they weren't - need to leave them longer'

whilst tidying up the manic cukes and exploding cukes [they ran wild when we were away], I found a cuke growing, about 6 inches long and 2 inches wide - didn't even know it was there.

P.S. - everyone seems to have forgotten this thread whilst I was away. Did I miss something?

[Newbie]

Best harvest of the year so far...

8 Turnips, 3 baby Beetroot, 5 Red Robin Cherry Tomatoes, 2 Courgettes, 3 Chillies, 2 large handfuls of French Beans (yellow & green) and half an ice cream tub of Runner Beans.

And very proud of myself i am too!!

[zazen999]

carrots from the lottie - nice and long even though grown in clay and the bed wasn't dug deep - who says you can't grow long carrots unless you dig 2 spits worth? Not me

1 cabbage - enough for coleslaw for 2 with one of the carrots above.

Just going out to get beetroot and an onion in for roasted veg for tea.

[Comfreyfan]

Tonight will be roast lamb with ah hem potatoes, caulie, calabrese, carrots and runners - all home grown - OH is well impressed (so am I)! Feels so good, it's got to be better than Prozac!

[Hans Mum]

3lb currants, 12 courgettesguess what i'm taking to work tomorrow?, 5lb spuds, peas, rhubarb and the rasps didnt make it home

[rustylady]

MORE courgettes, beans (runner, french and borlotta), chard, beetroot and summer PSB.

[Newbie]

Another 5 Red Robin Cherry Toms...

[middlefield]

Lettuce
Radishes
Sprint onion
White onion
Red onion
Peas
Mange tout
Broad beans
Runner beans
French beans
Potatoes (second earlies)
Summer squash
Courgettes (5)
Patty pans (first time I've eaten those, and they are delicious!)
Beetroot
Kohl Rabi (very tasty)
Pak Choi

As you can imagine with just the three of us, every meal is supplemented with loads of vegetables, but we were able to swap with a neighbour who has a pig farm and got a load of really high quality fresh sausages

This is by far our best year and there is absolutely huge amounts of produce that will follow. As meals consist of a wide variety of vegetables (rather than a traditional meat and two veg) there is a really good mix of tastes and textures.

[Alison]

Got back from a week away to discover that everything had gone mad! Picked the following:

3 punnets of French beans (various varieties)
Jug of peas
Cup of mange tout
Punnet of alpine strawberries (very proud of these as they were grown from seed this year)
1 mamouth courgette and a few smaller ones
3 cucumbers
1 lettuce
A couple of peppers
and a few chillies

Not too bad considering that they've all been neglected for a week!

[wellie]

As most of you who follow our Holly Cottage Garden 'Happenings' will know, my FLOBALOB FlowerPot People are just brimming full of Tumbling Tomatoes and fresh BASIL right now, and I'm trying to keep up with harvesting their tiny fruits and leaves on a daily basis. So, we are mostly picking TOMATOES?
More importantly, with a dozen or so Courgette plants, they are needing my fully-time attention and ingenious cooking skills. So we're mostly picking COURGETTES?

With having put Environmesh completely over my carrots this year, whilst it looks pretty awful, I have been able to harvest 100% clean, rootfly-free carrots every time I want them, and that for me has been the highlight of my growing year, as I've never ever had carrot-rootfly-free carrots before. Ever......
Pulling CARROTS!!!

I did cut some CAULIFLOWERS over the weekend, one of which I'm really proud of, but I won't bore you (!) and I'm largely in the middle of harvesting a few SWEETCORN COBS as well.

Oh, and did I mention the 118's that Hazel at the Hill gave me to plant?
They are RUNNER BEANS like I've never seen the likes of. Long and Straight my darling girlie, you should be so proud.....!

We do have LETTUCES, LEEKS and some SPINACH being harvested too.
And where would I be without my unsung Heroes of our plot: my trusty HERBS...

If I told you about The Allotment, I'd be donning TWO pairs of underpants on the outside of my skirt, so I won't.