Today I Mostly Harvested......

[Helgalush]

A few strawberries, one runner bean (lol!), 5 peas (oh dear), one lettuce.

(And cos I couldnt post earlier in the week I have also had spring onions, beetroot, cucumber and courgette this week!).

This is great and much more than I expected when I first started out just a few months ago!

[Helgalush]

Oh and forgot that I pulled up the first half-decent sized carrot - fed the duff ones to the bunnies

[wellie]

Ooh, we harvested Bored Beans, Peas, Carrots, Courgettes, Potatoes, Shallots and Garlic in order to keep the roast Chicken and Bread Sauce company on the plate, and whilst we eat it at the kitchen table, I asked Trousers to NOT let me watch any television at all this evening until I had 'de-twigged' the Redcurrants, because I wanted to get them weighed, bagged, and in the fridge tonight.

I rest my case.
Trousers called me into the Sitting Room to watch something, I then did a few things on the 'puter, and only NOW (half past midnight) have I just finished weighing, bagging and fridging the Redcurrants.

All ten and three quarter pound of them......
Which'll get chucked into the Preserving Pan tomorrow morning pronto.

[Two_Sheds]

couple of small courgettes, garlic, onions, cabbage, and the first French bean & first red chilli

[wellie]

I'm envious of that first red chilli Two Sheds!

Today I wanted to mostly plant stuff that desperately needs planting (see Wellie do a Kevin & Perry 'phew' and pathetic shrug, yes please, jam sandwich Mrs. Patterson kind of), and all I ended up doing was harvesting gorgeous soft fruits....
'How unfair is that?!' phew....

The trouble is, I used nearly all the netting I own to protect the produce I was growing alongside 'The Sick Sheep Pen' fence, and had little or nothing left for the mature fruit bushes growing underneath the dreaded Eucalyptus Monster Tree, and, to be perfectly honest, every Blackbird, House'n'Hedge Sparrow did know that...

So I decided today that I had to harvest every Blackcurrant and Red Gooseberry in sight, along with most of the Worcesterberries in order to have a crop at all. Hopefully tomorrow, I'll be able to complete my mission by harvesting the enormous remainder of the Pax Goosegogs (footballs slowly turning from green to red, I kid you not?) and any of the Chokerberries that have ripened overnight that said birds haven't scoffed.

Oh, and sorry to still be here 'banging on', I managed to steal a few Raspberries and Strawberries from the birds as well!

To be perfectly honest with you, I harvested so many Bored Beans today, that I never want to pick one ever again (she lied), and I shall probably now spend most of tomorrow afternoon podding the smallest ones for the freezer, along with the youngest of the Mangetout and Peas, with some of the freshest garden herbs, all in the same freezer bag/tupperware, so that during the deepest and darkest months of the winter, I can tip the whole lot into a GORGEOUS creamy Risotto or Pasta dish, just to remind me why it is that I love growing my own so much.X

[sewer rat]

Went out to the tunnel at 10pm tonight to soak everything and whilst there I picked 4 kg strawberries, without even trying too hard - there is definitely a bumper crop there this year - I reckon I'll have to get the girls out on Sunday and get the jars ready for some mammoth jam making sessions.

[Rhona]

Last night; golden courgettes, which I ribboned into a carbonara sauce and scented with some lemon thyme. Followed by a huge bowl of mixed salad leaves.

This morning - me and babies had a few sugar snap peas whilst milling around.

[phil the shed]

today
1.5kg blackcurrants
2.2kg redcurrants
1.4kg raspberries
yellow courgettes
4 round courgette
the good thing is thats about 4kg blackcurrants now so its jelly time

[Currysniffa]

Today I harvested my first carrots of the year plus I picked some Radish, Lettuce (little gem & some rocket) and some Beetroot, I was also given two very nice cabbages and courgettes....

Edit: PSB too

Happy Days

[Winged one]

Last night, en route home, I stopped at the plot and brought home:
1.1 kg of redcurrants
700g of gooseberries
1.6 kg of raspberries
a decent handful of blackcurrants (cos I got some at farmer's market at weekend, they are not fully ripe so can wait another 4 days, and I frankly didn't have time to get them all!!)
500g of broad beans
enough peas for DH and I tonight
4 small summer patty pan squashes
1 baby courgette
3 baby turnips
5 lettuces
bag of potatoes

I nearly fell over with the weight carrying it out to the car.

DH made dinner tonight, as I was late, again. Roast chick portions, with roast squash, roasted turnip, barely cooked peas (oooooh soooooo sweeeeet!!) and new spuds..

And I made 4 pots of raspberry jam this morning too. I have a load of other jams to make, and rasp voddie, but need lots more jam jars and some voddie.
(On a side note, I found some honey rum that we will never drink in the cupboard on Monday - got in the Canaries about 8 years ago - I am going to get some fresh cherries this week to preserve in it, and then make some choccies for Christmas presents with the results!!!! OOOh nurse!!!!!)

[NewbieGardenerRow]

I couldn't wait to get home today to harvest my first lot of spuds (Sharpes Express, grown in bags and were a bit dodgy with the chitting so I bought in other varieties as back up.)
I got about 2 lbs of spuds out of 2 bags with lots of really tiny ones so a little disappointing but it made the three of us a decent amount for tea and they were delicious.
I also harvested some broad beans (which were totally yummy) and about 4 spring onions and I pulled up one of my disaster stalks of garlic (yup idiot here planted the whole bulb and didn't split it into cloves.....DOH!) which gave me 3 small cloves and was lovely and sweet.
I tried to pick some spinach but it has gone a bit too far and big and was covered in greenfly so that got binned.
I have loads more broadies that need a little longer yet and now two empty potato bags.
Off to search forums for ideas what to grown in the leftover compost.

[Newbie]

My first courgette of the year, all 2.5 inches of it

[rustylady]

Redcurrants again. De-twigged and in the freezer waiting for the rest of the crop.

[Davyburns]

My first Red Tomatoe

[Rhona]

Strawberries (not many though)
Sugar snap peas
Courgette
Lettuce