Today I Mostly Harvested......

[Winged one]

This weekend has really seen us start into this year's cooking!!

For last night's dinner, I made a risotto primavera, using asparagus (M&S admittedly), our own broad beans and pea shoots, and a first pea pod. Which was followed by a victoria sponge using strawberry jam, whipped cream and sliced Irish strawberries as a filling. Oooh Sir!! Delish!!)

For lunch today, we had broad beans (picked an hour before), fried up with bacon lardons and served over some proper toast.

For dinner tonight, we had (almost) the last of the leeks. (I have 3 more for a casserole later this week). Which I did using the Doorely's recipe again - the parma ham version. As we were having a roast dinner of chicken thighs (with a lemon and honey dressing) and roast potatoes.

More broadies (our own) tomorrow night with lemon sole and baby new potatoes (remnants of the M&S specials). And I am having a salad for lunch tomorrow which includes a handful of our own radishes and some mint for flavour. OH is having a couple of radishes with his snadwiches - but DD has rejected them in her lunchbox.

[marathon]

Really pleased with how things are going this year. Polytunnel is full and the plot is really starting to fill up.

This morning I picked
Beetroot
Carrotts
Courgettes
Fench dwarf beans
Peas
Salad leaves
Spinach
Strawberries
Flat leaf parsley

[janeyo]

rocket, mangetout, strawbs and spring onions today

[gardenofeden]

today i managed to get a small amount of new potatoes, radishs and a few strawberries to keep up the digging moral

[cupcake]

My first mangetout! Half each for me and OH! Raw of course, it was delicious! I wish I'd grown more!

[King Carrot]

Totally chuffed with me Broccoli Olympia F1 - best crop I've ever got.
18 seeds started end of January at 6 stations 2 ft apart and finally thinned/xplanted (slugs decimated all 3 plants at one station) to 5 plants inside the homemade greenhouse . Suprisingly for an F1 we have havested one nice head like this of each plant over a 3 week period with some side shoots so no glut as I expected. This is the last head so took a blurry photo and put a €1 coin on it to give a bit of perspective.

This was steamed and eaten with a roast yesterday along with carrots, cabbage, peas(in the photo too!) and courgettes

[Mi Jardín]

Today we ate lettuce and grated beetroot with our pasta tonight, which had homegrown garlic in the sauceand for good measure a few small broad beans!

[Newbie]

Tonight i had chilli & rice made with home grown onions & broadbeans!

[tiachica]

I thinned our radishes today and these two were eaten by hubby and me:

[WeeGarden]

Mange tout. Again.

That's over 100 in less than 9 days. To think I was panicking just a few weeks ago cos they weren't flowering...

[Hans Mum]

a punnet of strawberries picked tonight when i went to lottie, managed to get them home and shared with DH & DD, they were delicious

[gojiberry]

Yesterday managed potatoes, onions, garlic, cabbage and strawberries. Peas and broad beans are only going to be a matter of days and I have lettuce coming out my earholes. A good start to the season.

Ian

[kathsunn]

our first harvest

Yesterday dug up 2 potato plants and picked some monge tout and a few peas and had a lovely dinner with a bit of butter and burgers. The kids loved the potatoes! Very proud.

[Two_Sheds]

Bags of broadies, handful of peas and a lettuce (although I could have cut 6, they're all coming ready).

[shoreham_steve]

New potatos, cherry toms, broad beans, peas, baby courgettes, mint.
Added shop bought carrots and mushrooms to the courgettes and toms and am oven roasting them, drizzled in olive oil. The tats are on the boil so I'm off to open the wine !
Cheers !