Today I Mostly Harvested......

[Jeanied]

A good handful of carrots (Paris Market) and a small bag of the first pickings of Purple Sprouting Broccoli -

[sagegreen]

A good handful of purple sprouting (I never seem to grow enough); curly kale... and a bunch of 'Early Sensation' daff's.

[Newbie]

More leeks, want to get their bed emptied so i can move my 2 Gooseberry, Redcurrant & Blackcurrant bushes into it as they are being suffocated by the Autumn Rasps!

[esrikandan]

1 medium and 4 small leeks. Was a bit late getting them in least year so these will be the first of my leeks.

[COMPOST CORNER]

Last five leeks from top bed. That's about it.

[wellie]

Trousers actually asked me to harvest TWO leeks for our late lunch today, but on account of them being so ruddy miniscule, he then had to ask me for another three, just to make a small portion? Comical..... but they tasted completely out of this world, which is, afterall, what it's all about, me thinks.
And at least I've got something at all to be grateful about harvesting. X.

[avinabacca]

Half a dozen Helenor swede, half a dozen Golden Ball turnip, the last six or seven carrots (Nantes F1), a bunch of Hilds Blauer Herbst/Winter winter radish, another eight leeks (Musselburgh) and the last of the Boltardy beetroot.

Nom nom nom.

Beginning to see what the "Hungry Gap" is about, though; we're nearly at the end of the veg grown and there's nothing now to be going on with until maybe May/June-time.......

[jogette]

Harvested half a dozen celeriac (rather on the small side) some parsnips, two swedes and took some onions and a butternut squash from storage. Also picked some chiogga and boltardy beets which I will roast with the squash tomorrow. Still have leeks in but they are vertically challenged - I really haven't done very well with them at all - don't understand why!

[Ringo Grumio Nibbler]

You see, whether you've been growing stuff to eat for an annosecond, or a decade, the kind of results are still as WOW? and I think it's just as important for us to share the produce that we harvest, whether it's annoyingly bad or frock-blowing-up-Gorgeous?
We should completely CELEBRATE what we grow, and I'd like to think that this thread is kind of here for you to do just that.

So People, Let's Harvest It, and TALK ABOUT IT!

I'll Start:

Today I Mostly Harvested.....

Mixed Salad Leaves (how boring is that?!) for our warm Goats Cheese Salad.
But then again, it's not WHAT you've got, it's what you DO with it - as the saying goes! you've not been invited to Wellie's Kitchen yet to taste how scrummy that could be? I simply ADORE cooking what I grow, and in amongst this thread, I'll try and interject our own Kitchen Garden Successes and Failures amongst yours, if you'll let me?

So.... what did you Mostly Harvest Today?

I've been a chef on and off since I was 16 (now 47), but have only just become interested in growing my own.

I don't know why it hasn't crossed my mind before. I think the trigger may have been the rising prices of fruit and veg in the shops, combined with the poor quality of some of the more exotic stuff that I want to cook.

Cooking with my own produce is going to add an extra edge my enjoyment of cooking and is likely to make me unbearably smug.

[wellie]

You know what Ringo?

I adore you already....
Every time one or other of us puts a genuine comment or recipe, it's done for the right reasons, and aimed purely to please and share.
X

[wellie]

Today, I mostly brought 2 tubs of Jerusalem Fartichokes from outside to inside the conservatory for harvesting, because they were completely frozen solid, and time is pressing on: I want to use them now for Soup and with Potatoes in a Gratin, and however else I can before the time comes to lift and replant them.
BUT! I've decided NOT to replant them in the future. WHY? Because they'd even started to root from the bottom of the pot into the soil beneath!! SHOCK HORROR!!

I use them rarely, and I've come to an executive decision: If I want some to cook with, I'll buy them.

If you leave just ONE tiny-weeny tuber in the ground one year, you will regret having planted them for the rest of your life, because each and every single one of those tiny-weeny tubers will produce a crop of grown-up tubers that you spend every waking moment of your sleepless nights just hoping upon hopes that don't pop up somewhere else to haunt you.
I only speak aloud.

[stella]

I like the sound of something that grows that easily Wellie, might try them. Today I picked Mustard and Cress from the windowsill for my sandwich simples

[wellie]

stella - you're welcome!

I'm rather 'cheating' by posting up on this thread telling you what I harvested today actually, because it was from my larder. Last year, I grew some climbing Borlotti Beans, which I then cooked in olive oil, with some home-grown shallots and sweet peppers, to a delicious Sarah Raven recipe, which you then bottle and preserve. (It takes the strength and determination of a small army to OPEN the Kilner Jar, but it is eventually possible if your name is Wellie!)

And I'm telling you that I 'un-preserved' it today, and added it to tonights' supper, and I've only got another zillion kilner jars of it left to use between now and the autumn.

[wellie]

I reckoned with Trousers disappearing off to do 'Man's Work/Detecting in a field full of complete strangers, and maybe inadvertantly clubbing a Mammoth or something', that I should cook a Sunday Roast Dinner, so, in amongst everything else that Wellie had to do today, she harvested a whole Red Cabbage, sliced it, cooked it, and put it on the plate.
It were bl@@dy gorgeous!
What about you?

[Hans Mum]

took a small but perfectly formed savoy cabbage home, cooked it with bacon & onion was flipping lovely....