Today I Mostly Harvested......

[jackie j]

Not sure what to do with the courgettes. Can you freeze them?

Buy the book 'What to do with all those courgettes ' by Elaine Borish its very good.

[Mrs Dobby]

Another 4lb of rasps, 2lb of strawbs, 6 more large courgettes, another 5lb of broad beans, another 3lb broccolli and the first 2 red tomatoes, scoffed on the spot! Cabbages are almost ready, french beans look like they are about to start cropping, courgettes are going bananas, peppers will be ready shortly, loads more strawbs and gadzillions of rasps still to come! Thinks we gonna be busy harvesting!!

[Gurberly]

Some more courgettes and the first of the runner beans (red rum)

[glut]

Last of my swifts, lettuce, the few radishes that hadn't bolted, peas (green shaft) and raspberries.

[Twinkle]

Five cauliflowers and a handful of courgettes! Blanching the cauliflower to keep as we can't eat that many in one go and it's too hot. Not sure what to do with the courgettes. Can you freeze them?

River Cottage Courgette Chutney *drool*

and there's a thread on the Season to Taste forum that has loads of suggestions including the most marvellous courgette cake.

[cupcake]

5lbs of wonderful new potatoes, Charlottes from my gro-sac! First time I've ever grown any!

[Lemon]

A small handful of strawb's all for me! Yum! (not as sweet as I'd like though?)

[rustylady]

Well, not just today but over the last couple of days: New potatoes Estima (good size but not many of them), raspberries, strawberries, redcurrants, 3 courgettes, and some gooseberries. Also plenty of salad leaves out of the planter outside the back door.

[New_Bud]

A handful of strawberries, three fat carrots, 100g of peas and a sweet red pepper!

[butter fingers]

mange toute, couple of lettuce cabbage leaves, turnips, carrots, a sample of my garlic and shallots. i think i need to pull the shallotts and leave the garlic. finally at the allotment chatted with the guy next to my plot and so i looked patheticly at my potatoes and took up his offer of some of his.As he said "he grows to eat not look at" allways works when i stand there looking sad and pathetic.

[Glutton4...]

Had my first ever home-grown Peas this week - they were soooo delish!
Early Spuds have been good too - Swifts had very little flavour, but were good nonetheless. Still got Pentland Javelin and Aran Pilot to go - I planted far too many!

[Professor Peabody]

Harvested my very first cabbage and salad leaves. Plus another giant beetroot and some garlic.

[sarraceniac]

Loads of strawberries. Last year I bought some plants at a car boot for 50p each. Don't do it - ever. YUK. So I bought some Cambridge favourites this year. Delicious and a large first year crop. Then I got about 25 lb of Radar onions pulled today, a nice bag of broad beans which Bosslady coshed straight away and we froze all but two portions which we just ate with lamb and Yorkshire pudding (don't any Southerners tell me we can't have Yorkshire with lamb) and roast potatoes (bought) and creamed leeks frozen from last year. I picked BL a nice bunch of sweet peas (the flowers, does that count?) and I pulled just one carrot and ate it raw before deciding on another 2-3 weeks. Then I pulled some shallots to pickle. Not many because I want to give them a couple more weeks but they will pickle in balsamic vinegar beautifully, and I'm craving for them.

All in all a really satisfying day, especially as I cracked open the first bottle of elderflower shampagne. (Yes I can spell).

Forgot to say the lamb was eaten with home made mint jelly. (edit)

[Lazgaot]

I've just pulled the last few of my overwintered onions and the last of my charlotte second earlies. I planted 16 tubers I must have at least 10Kg of produce.
The onions have come up in all sorts of sizes, from small to huge! Some have sent up flower heads, some have not. The ones that didn't are the best.

[Lottieval]

Spuds - Rocket, more than enough peas for dinner, Rondo, courgettes, raspberries and loganberries, beetroot, round and Choggia, couple of carrots, onions, calabrese. Ongoing with salads, though need to sow more now it's cooler, many have bolted. Made about 7lb blackcurrant jam with last year's from freezer to make room for loads just ripening. Chuffed to bits, looking forward to dinner.