Today I Mostly Harvested......

[wellie]

I'm thinking of starting a thread called: How many Slugs'n'Snails did you harvest today? Obviously, not with intent on eating them of course!!, but I think this thread, and that new one would fit superbly together side by side.....

So - I'll start you off: Today, I mostly harvested twelve. And instead of putting them in an old coffee jar with salty water in and a lid on, I now very responsibly harvest my molluscs and deposit them in 'The Sheep Field' adjacent to The Orchard, because the Blackbirds are foraging for food at ground level in there, and are bound to pick 'em up as they try to sneak back to my garden?!

On the Food Harvesting Front, Trousers got his first Radish, which was bizarre, because the seed was sown at exactly the same time as the CCA & Rocket seed, and we've been harvesting leaves from THEM for weeks'n'weeks'n'weeks? *Wellie shakes her head and rolls her eyes to heaven*. He also harvested one large Spring Onion for his Egg Salad tomorrow.
Honestly Children, sometimes I wonder why I bother growing all this gorgeous stuff for him at all if he's not willing to help himself?!
We DID have a beautiful blue cheese & bacon salad for our dinner this evening, and the CCA leaves are amazingly tasty - so much nicer than shop-bought bags of the same...

And tomorrow night I've planned another salad: Smoked Chicken (out of the freezer) and fresh Asparagus, with more CCA leaves and Rocket. Tidy. X.

[LolaLou]

Oooh....I really need to get into sowing 'leaves', I worry that the slugs will eat more than me and am put off but I'm hungry just reading your post Wellie!! But I divert..... this weekend I pulled my first over wintering white and red onions (red was still a little small but still bigger than the failed main crop last year!) and a very very early garlic bulb (again, very small but smelt wonderful and I just couldn't resist!), the last of the PSB, a handful of new tatties from an experimental (unplanned) dig and a great handful of the B&Q mushrooms in a box, lovely!

[Newbie]

Yesterday i harvested 2 baby Pak Choi & some Chives to go in my Wanton Noodle Soup, and also 3 sticks of Rhubarb which didn't go in the soup

[hamsterqueen]

lots of parsley , chives and mint for Tabbouleh and potato salad.

[Helgalush]

Coriander for my curry!

[Jelliebabe]

More rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb! Two baking trays of sticks now cut up and on baking trays open freezing! Love it!

[Newbie]

Rhubarb for a fool!

[binley100]

Rhubarb , spring cabbage . Earlier this week I was harvesting caterpillers off the gooseberries. Couldn't find any today

[Winged one]

Tonight, I tasted my first radish of this season and put a handful into my salad bowl for tomorrow's lunch. Along with a handful of salad leaves from the garden (and a lot of stuff I bought - not yet got a full lunch bowl this season).

DH also made a lovely stewed rhubarb and ginger batch from the plot harvest at the weekend, which we will put into the freezer for a winter pie - DH's idea!!

I have a nice handful of leeks to use this week as well. And I will be using a nice handful of french beans which we froze last summer in tomorrow night's nasi goreng, with onion and garlic. We used a handful of onions to slow roast on the BBQ on Sunday, which was gorg! But there are a lot of onions starting to bolt that we need to use up soon, so perhaps an onion and cheese tart or somesuch beckons in the next week or so.

[shirlthegirl43]

... nettle roots Well, I now have one small bed ready for sowing/planting or something so I am happy with that.

[Helgalush]

Coriander and mint, for my lovely vegetable kebabs and couscous. Yum.

[NewbieGardenerRow]

Spinach leaves for me today.
I did one small trough for salad leaves but noticed that something is munching them
Something very small too as the holes aren't that big but I cant see anything much except for some greenfly.
so I snipped all the good sized ones off and wilted them down and chucked them in with some chicken and noddles.
Yummmmmmmm
My first eats for this year apart from a couple of sticks if rhubarb dipped in some sugar and eaten raw.

[janeyo]

Emptied first busket of greenhouse lady christl potatoes in a bucket. Got 675g from one tuber - Get in! Very happy lady today me now, doesn't take much

[cazp]

25g of salad leaves and a radish the size of a kidney bean! Might not sound much, but it's my first crop of salads..ever! and it tasted great.

[binley100]

Spring cabbage, enough gooseberries to make a goosegog and apple crumble