Today I Mostly Harvested......

[Two_Sheds]

2 large white patty pan squashes, green & yellow courgettes, 100g raspberries, a bag of shelly Tiger Eye beans, tomatoes, chillies, lettuce and the first curly kale

[DLittlewood]

little gem lettuce
cucumber (teleraph growing outside)
tomatoes
2 funny shaped aubergine (long and thin like a banana)
2 courgette
2 Hungarian Hot Wax chilli
curly parsley and some basil

[Mrs T]

Didn't get chance to come on sooner but at the weekend I harvested:

Tomatoes/onions/garlic/basil - YUM sauce for home made pizza...
potatoes/carrots - for Sunday dinner (tried to rescue some cabbage too but the bugs got there before me )

[Shadylane]

I actually picked some broad beans today - what's that about? I chopped them down and left the roots in and they grew back. They're still in flower, weirdness.

Other than that a load of tomatoes which were made into a roast tomato and sausage bake(its delish one of Mr Oliver's recipes) with some wedges (still finishing the 1st earlies). Also picked some lettuce and some courgettes including a monster which had been hiding underneath the leaves. Oh and a few onions.

Is it normal for onions to be still growing? There's quite a few (from seed) that haven't flopped yet ????

[wellie]

Nothing to do with the french resistance, but Blighty struck The Funny Farm last week, and thankfully, I hope, I noticed it 'just in time', but only time will tell, obviously....

So I harvested both greenhouse and outdoor tomatoes, brought them into the safety of the farmhouse,. Personally, they've got two chances now.
For every negative, there's a god-given positive, and tomorrow, because the sheep are back in that there field finally, I shall be Mostly Harvesting as much Sheep DooDoo as my heart would be contented to do so.

Simples....X

[StephenH]

Picked my first 'James Grieve' (probably) apples yesterday. Deliciously tart.
Still gathering lots of Swiss Chard - I'de never tasted it before this year, since you don't find it in the shops (or at least I don't), but it's delicious. I suspect that it's a Marmite veg - you either love it or hate it. I love it, but it's quite strongly-flavoured, so you're not likely to be indifferent to it. It's also cut-and-come-again, which makes it more useful. For that reason, in the brassicas I think I will mainly grow kale in the future, that being the most cca of them.

[rustylady]

Plums, and more plums (Victoria)

[rustylady]

3 and a half pounds of tomatoes now being roasted in the oven to make sauce for the winter. 1 kilo of plums now being turned (hopefully) into roasted plum sorbet.

[Mrs T]

3 and a half pounds of tomatoes now being roasted in the oven to make sauce for the winter. 1 kilo of plums now being turned (hopefully) into roasted plum sorbet.

Sounds gorgeous!!!
Have just got a preserving book as a present... just need to increase my yield now

[monkeyx]

Harvested the last of my rocket and kept some seed to grow again next year.

First time I have grown fresh rocket and it has been great.

Can rocket grow through winter in an unheated green house?

Tim

[Mrs T]

Harvested the last of my rocket and kept some seed to grow again next year.

First time I have grown fresh rocket and it has been great.

Can rocket grow through winter in an unheated green house?

Tim

Well I'm hoping so??!!!!!!
I cut back some sweet peas at the weekend and found some growing that I planted way back... Ohhhh it is definitely my favourite....

[Suky]

Runner beans (now in freezer) and a mixed bag of beef, plum, cherry and ordinary tomatoes (now simmering in the slow cooker for passata) and a few french beans from a late sowing. Also 2.5kg of mirabel wild plums, destined for chutney.

[DLittlewood]

Chantenay carrots, 7 parsnips!!!! (they were flopping & I got carried away!) 2 green chillis, last cabbage and brocolli which were both V caterpillar damaged but what the heck some thyme and oregano.

So weve had a lovely roast chicken dinner which was enjoyed by all.

[crazii_c]

Other than that a load of tomatoes which were made into a roast tomato and sausage bake(its delish one of Mr Oliver's recipes) with some wedges (still finishing the 1st earlies).

i too harvested a load of toms to use in mr olivers sausage bake! lovely recipe!

[StephenH]

I harvested my spuds yesterday - 'Picasso' and 'Pink Fir Apple'. Some of the 'Picasso's were HUGE! The PFA's were more modestly-sized, but the total weights of the two crops, judging by the apparant weight of the two sacks they were in when held in each hand, were about the same.
I made the damaged-but-usable PFAs into chips last night: as the books say, they are ideal for the purpose, because of their shape: long and narrow. I just needed to cut each into halves or quarters lengthways. They are traditionally supposed to be a salad spud, but they make great chips as well.
I had the PFA, which dates from the mid-19th Century, and the Picasso, which I assume from its name is much more modern, growing side by side in two rows, and oddly enough, the foliage of PFA looks Victorian, being somewhat wrinkled and frilly, while the 'Picasso' foliage, being smoother, looks more modern!