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Spring onions and a small summer cabbage, the onions were lovely in my lunchtime salad pitta bread and the cabbage will be part of dinner (which will be ready in about 10 minutes and I can't wait).
Yes that's what I liked in summer, racing past the garden with a container in my hand and grabbing lunch as I went.
I didn't harvest anything today - we had chicken and sweet corn soup I made the other day with spring onions and herbs from the garden.
Now since my cabbages are not really hearting up, can I use the begger outer leaves anyway in stir fry etc or will they be bitter?
Some days it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints!
One bit of old folklore wisdom says to plant tomatoes when the soil is warm enough to sit on with bare buttocks. In surburban areas, use the back of your wrist. Jackie French
Member of the Eastern Branch of the Darn Under Nutter's Club
My first ever Turnip in both the grown and eaten categories, not to bad on taste bit of an after taste to it. I only boiled it to get an idea of what it tastes like unadulterated, will get more adventerous as the harvests come in.
THis weekend I harvested my first bag of potatoes. I had started them early in the greenhouse. there were enough small potatoes for the 4 of us but there were loads of tiny potatoes so I'm saving the second bag for a few more weeks. Also harvested spinach (autumn planted and kept in greenhouse over winter), a couple of spring onions and loads of lettuce leaves.
I just noticed the title on this thread.. was this intentional? "Today I Are Mostly Harvested......" Has it always been like that, and I am confirmed blind? LOL
First new potatoes, over-wintered peas, asparagus and broad beans to go with some mince cooked in a tomato pasta sauce and loads of our fresh basil. Also the first lettuce from the polytunnel.
Last night I harvested the first ever thing I've grown myself - a small rocket leaf! Mostly I wanted to see what it was, as I thought it was where I'd planted rocket but it didn't have the spiky leaves I was used to (different variety I guess). But yes, it was rocket! And it was tasty. (Apart from the little bit of dirt on it, haha, maybe I should have taken it in and washed it) I've picked herbs that I've bought already grown, a tomato from a plant someone gave me (I didn't look after it well, we literally got 2 tomatoes), fruit from trees someone else had planted, but never something I've grown from a seed before
Hopefully soon I'll be able to harvest something in actual meal-sized portions, or at least sandwich filling portions, hehe
The first time you harvest something you grow yourself is always memorable and exciting - more than 20 years later I can still remember the first thing I harvested after nursing it all the way from seed (it was a tomato and the first of many).
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