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Doesn't it just 'blow your frock up' to go out and pick stuff, put it in your mouth/shirt-tails/trug/colander or put it on your plate when you get back to the kitchen? Only harvesting exactly what you need to eat right now, and leaving the rest of it to grow until you want it.?
That's what this thread is all about.
It's about YOU, and what you love to grow.
But hey! do remember, if you forget to SOW, to replace what you grow and harvest, you'll be reading about it rather than writing about it, so do keep, keep sowing stuff every couple of weeks.
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a year round lettuce, not fully grown as only small heart but needed to thin out a bit, some perpetual spinach leaves, a small red onion that had bolted and a few basil leaves, all used and eaten for our tea.
more salad leaves here, with a few radishes sliced thinly, and some beetroot leaves chucked in! I felt I was cheating adding supermarket cherry tomatoes to complete the salad, but in a couple of months hope to add home grown ones!
Today - first of the spuds (Rocket) absolutely delicious.. along with 3 cucumbers, Passandra lovely cukes just 5/6 inches long saves the waste we used to get using full size ones (haven't tasted these yet though) along with some chinese leaves and small beetroot.
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."-- Abraham Lincoln
I have just had about 20 baby spinach leaves in my leftover curry, absolutely delicious!!! I cant believe that literally 3 minutes before they were in the ground in my garden, then to the pan, and now in my tummy!!! YUM!
Some calvo nero leaves, the flower stalk from a leek (nice spicy onion garlic taste), a strawberry and a leaf snipped from a sneaky rainbow chard which somehow survived the great turning of the soil over winter.
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