Today I Mostly Harvested......

[wellie]

I Rest My Case.....

.....it takes nothing to get enthused about growing, and very little more to start growing stuff, whether from seed, or bought seedlings from places like Homebase (other outlets ARE available, but do avoid overpriced garden centres, eh?!)
And here we go: Wellie's Going Off On One? But for a jolly good reason, my friends:
Do be aware of 'The Retail Trap', because if you visit your local garden centre, and buy a multi-pack of 6 or 9 (eg. Little Gem Lettuce plantlets, let's say) to 'grow on' in your own garden or lottie, you could actually be paying well over the odds, nurturing and molly-coddling them for weeks, when there's perfectly fresh and acceptable Little Gems in your local Farmers' Market or Local Greengrocer every day for the same money, but fully grown, and ready to eat.

BUT. Having said that, never be confused with wanting to grow stuff at home outside the kitchen door that you can pick and put on the plate within seconds.
That's exactly what I do, and exactly why I do it.
Your choice entirely, but I try to grow stuff that deteriorates 'on the shelf' of a shop, and that for me, is indeed very FRESH stuff: Rocket, CCA Salad Leaves, Mangetout, Peas, Sugarsnap Peas, Sweetcorn, New Potatoes, Bored Beans..... and if you're lucky enough to have 'a glut', just freeze what you don't use.
Simples!
And may I prolly be the last person today to say "May the 4th Be With You?!"X

[Davyburns]

My second cucumber, and with a bit of luck, might get my first tomato next week, theres just a tinge of red in one of them

[unclefudgly]

Just picked our first bowl of strawberries, and fantastic they are. Looks like I'm gonna be swamped in them in another week. All outside on the plot!!

[chengjing]

Last batch of PSB finally. Hubby is happy about that. All PSB' are out and replaced by beans, peas and sweetcorns and chinese greens.

[Suky]

Picked my first 2 pea pods (Oskar, on the lottie) Will be picking a lettuce later from home garden.

[Chef_uk]

Several leaves from all of the lettuces so to let it carry on producing.
Thinned out Radishes.
Second batch of Rhubarb pulled up.

None of which i actually like to eat lol but my in-laws will be grateful

[wellie]

Today, I Mostly Harvested....

.... oodles of fresh garden herbs - namely: flat-leaf parsley, french tarragon, basil, thyme, chives and chervil (to try out a Tamasyn Day-Lewis Herb Tart recipe ahead of printing off the schedule) for our villagers to enter in the local show early July. It does sound rather scrumptious

Second harvest today, which sounds completely Bonkers, was a crop of surprise goosegogs. I say 'surprise', because they're off a bush that I felled to the ground last year because it was getting on my nerves, encroaching on the Worcesterberry/Chokerberry territory. They're at that perfect culinary stage, petite and tarty, so no reason not to, eh?

[Jardiniere]

Strawberries, Lettuce, Broad Beans, Leeks from the plot.
Chives from a POT
Cherries from neighbour's tree.
Elderflower Cordial from the neighbourhood trees.

[chris]

First lot of my huge amount of inherited strawberries - wow, very tasty. Not sure if that was before they're free mind

I have a LOAD of gooseberries coming up too.. hundreds. Can't wait

[Nes]

Armfuls of parsley (had to go to make room for sweet peas!). Any ideas, other than freezing or composting??

[King Carrot]

hurray -had lots of mange tout the last week, the peas are beggining to give more than a handful and there's a few calabrese looking edible as well, all grown in the tunnel this year in case you're wondering!

[Winged one]

Today, I had another salad for lunch - bought carrots and mangetout and pepper and tomatoes, but my own leaves, radishes and a couple of tiny baby carrots too (I eat 2 whole full size carrots in my salad so I don't want bread).

I have a handful of leeks in the fridge as well, from last weekend's plot harvest, that I am going to make into buttered leeks for the freezer. They are bolting very early this year (and I am making all sorts with them, and gave a handful to my aunt on Sunday as well).

[Two_Sheds]

lots of lettuce; spring onions; baby chard leaves; baby beetroot leaves; Chinese leaves; and the first BROAD BEANS (kids all spat them out though)

[maytreefrannie]

Some rhubarb and a few radishes.

[bethduckie]

Cabbage, pak choi thinnings and a lottie neighbour gave me some rhubarb. Yum yum!