Today I Mostly Harvested......

[Professor Peabody]

In the bag today we put another cabbage and another courgette. Also dug up another couple of spud plants - good size tubers but only two or three per plant so am dissapointed with this variety (Kestrel) but never mind cos me Charlottes are ready to come up.

[gemlady]

Tomatoes, runner beans, courgettes and potatoes

[Scottishnewbie]

Today and yesterday have been bumper harvest for us:

Blackcurrants - made into blackcurrant and apple jelly (jam)
LOADS of courgettes - currently marrow and ginger jam cooking away; cocoa courgette muffins made this morning (and nearly finished!)
Cucumber -soaking away in salt to make bread and butter pickles this evening
Tomatoes, onions, garlic and carrots - made tomato soup for fussy 10 year old!

and tea tonight??? don't know - OH who was at stag do last night can take over.....

[gardencat]

OT: vegetarian stuffed marrow recipe

Mmmmm.... stuffed marrow.

Don't know if anyone would be interested in this recipe for stuffed marrow? Chop marrow in half lengthways, then scoop seeds out and blanch pieces of marrow in boiling water for five minutes. If you've got a really huge marrow, cut it into several large bits and chop up one of the bits for use in the filling (see below).

For the filling: fry chopped onion and garlic, add chopped fresh tomatoes and about half a pint of stock (I use chicken stock 'cos I'm not vegetarian and we usually have a few trays of it in the freezer). Add chopped chilli (optional) plus herbs (again, optional) and a dash of Marmite/soy sauce. Reduce down for a bit. Add the chopped up marrow, plus about a quarter to half a pound of nuts crushed in the blender (use any nuts you like in any ratio - almonds, brazils, hazelnuts, walnuts, pine nuts...). To bulk out the nuts and solidify things a bit, add some breadcrumbs. The mixture should be the consistency of a very thick sauce with bits in. Use this to stuff the marrow pieces, and top with plenty of grated Cheddar and bake in the oven on gas mark 6 until the cheese goes a bit brown.

Today I mostly harvested a monster marrow. It will be stuffed and eaten for tea

[bramble]

Harvested 4 pods of pinto beans that were ina container in the greenhouse.
This is my first year growing these and so have been patiently watching them grow.
have a lot more outdoors but are not nearly ripe yet.
also pulled some onions, some late strawberries, blackcurrants and salad leaves.
the tomatoes are starting to ripen faster now with Legend, Ailsa Craig, Moneymaker, Sun gold, and Mexico \midget producing quite well.
ferline, Alicante, Pineapple and Pearly Pink still to ripen
Growing an F2 Black CherryxSungold given to me by a friend. The first tomato looks like it will be ready to pick in a day or two, so looking forward to tasting it.

[Florence Fennel]

Garlic (I'm absolutely thrilled with it, first time but definitely not the last), kidney beans and beetroot.

[butter fingers]

beans, runner beans, onions ranging from pickle size to large, garlic ranging from small to a good size and first of the potatos which were agood size.

[COMPOST CORNER]

Yesterday lifted Red onions, white onions and shallots, all now happily drying on racks in the shed.

[Winged one]

Today I am mostly dealing with the glut of courgettes and marrows - I have 2lbs already made into soup (luckily having guests for lunch), and I will make another batch later today for the freezer (having guests for dinner next Saturday!!).

But I was harvesting on Thursday night, and came home with:
Last of new potatoes (1st earlies) - enough for a bacon and cabbage dinner, the soup, and a handful for salad today.
A nice cabbage - see above, and a quarter left for a stirfry tomorrow
A handful of calabrese - no really big heads this year but enough to satisfy us
A handful of french beans - at LAST!!
The last 5 or so broad bean pods - did well this year though
Another small portion of peas- enough for another small bag in freezer
4 patty pan squashes -yum!
3 marrows and about 8 courgettes - lots of soups, and lots of aunts got doorstep surprises!!
A bag of red and yellow onions - about 8 bolted ones to use this week, although I'll be harvesting the bulk of them in the next few weeks

[Luci]

Yesterday, lifted all my onions, picked 4 courgettes, a good handful of purple podded peas (my little one, aged 11 months loves them fresh from the pods), big bag of potaotes and a bag of french beans.

[gardencat]

Handful of wild rocket and baby spinach leaves to make pesto for lunch.

[janeyo]

Yesterday I did a roast dinner (we don't have one very often) and OHwas very excited when he realised that the roasted baby parsnips were from the garden, as were the roast potatoes, runner beans, climbing beans, cabbage, carrots, and the shallots I roasted with the veg too. And the eggs for the yorkies were from out hens too

I was stuffed to bursting after!

[gardencat]

...and some huge runner beans. Great chopped into inch-long chunks and added to boiling rice 5-10 minutes before the end of cooking, to eat with tonight's chicken curry.

[rustylady]

5 and a half pounds of runner beans, half a pound of french beans, a few borlotta beans, 6 courgettes (one thinks it's a marrow and I was only there 3 days ago), some PSB. Spuds ready but I don't need any tonight, so maybe tomorrow!

[Lizzie]

All my early potatoes, broad beans & runner beans - more to come. Onions, shallots, calabrese, swede. Had them for our dinner. Delighted as a 'first timer' allotment holder!! And the taste is AMAZING!!!!!!