Today I Mostly Harvested......

[Noosner]

Harvested several firsts for me this year:

Two crookneck squashes (hooray!)
French beans (beautiful maroon Blauhilde, which turn green as they cook)
Beetroot (Boltardy and Alto. The Alto has a lovely cylindrical shape but doesn't taste as good as the Boltardy, which is delicious)
And carrots (Long Lisse de Meux, fragrant and crunchy)

Made this lovely beetroot and feta soup. It's a Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall recipe: BBC - Food - Recipes : Beetroot soup with feta

Also harvested, with a bit of disappointment:

Onions (some not much bigger than shallots) and taters (not many and some look a bit poorly). Also, no idea what half the taters are because the lettering washed off their I.D. sticks in the rain!

[Tiberius]

More PSB, sweet peas, lettuce, cabbage, kale and a few peas.

[Nicos]

French beans and courgette...and then some more !
They've loved this warm wet weather.

( * keeps checking for blight but ...as yet we're OK)

Tis a good year for us with both of them

[rustylady]

Calabrese sideshoots, curly cale, Cavalo Nero, and a couple of Sungold tomatoes.

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Lunchtime:
More courgettes
Tomatoes (Outdoor girl and mixture of cherrys sungold, sweet baby, sweet cherry)
Lollo Rosso Lettuce
Cucumber

Tonight:
French beans
Runner beans
Carrots (st. valerie / jeannette / norfolk giant (more like norfolk scrawny dwarf)
New Potatoes
Kale (Cavalo Nero and Scarlet)

Dinner was awesome as a result of my efforts. I feel like I might pop.

[Peppermint]

Some Foremost new potatoes
Chard
Courgette
Broad Beans
The very first of my peas
Red Baron onions

Had new potatoes, stir fried veg and a mushroom omelette for dinner. Only the eggs and mushrooms weren't produced by ourselves

[Florence Fennel]

Courgettes. Basil, basil and even more basil. It's been so easy to grow this year that now I have a glut! Oh and more Minibell tomatoes.

[rustylady]

Two more courgettes, one yellow and one stripey. Some French beans (Cobra) and some runner beans (Moonlight).

Some blackberries off the hedge at the bottom of the allotment next to mine. The plotholder doesn't use them and the thorns attack everyone who walks along the path, so sweet revenge

Four Sungold tomatoes out of the greenhouse, too.

[Ananke]

Tomatoes, red pepper, cayenne pepper, onion and some not yet ripe apples thanks to my neighbour.... the jars of chutney are cooling on the window ledge

[Matt94]

2 cucumbers, all of the shallots and half the onions

[Noosner]

A massive cucumber, some kale, Orla spuds, runner beans, more onions to dry in shed. The cooking apple tree has one apple on it!! What a red letter day it will be when I harvest that one.

[MrsCordial]

Noosner!

We'd harvested an entire colander of runner beans by 8am. I'm starting to think chutney... Later I'll pick a Little Gem and various herbs to have with my lunch.

[Noosner]

Noosner!

We'd harvested an entire colander of runner beans by 8am. I'm starting to think chutney... Later I'll pick a Little Gem and various herbs to have with my lunch.

Runner bean chutney? Do tell!

[Noosner]

French beans. I love the Blauhilde - they are purple on the vine (which makes 'em easier to spot) but go green when cooked.

Lettuce. Spring onions. Tomarters.

[MrsCordial]

I haven't made it yet, but will probably use Nigel Slater's recipe (being a big of a fangirl). Apparently it's similar to piccalilli. I looked into making runner bean wine but lots of people said it's like sherry, which you couldn't pay me to drink.