Today I Mostly Harvested......

[Bren In Pots]

Picked a few Arctic king lettuce leaves growing in the greenhouse for my sandwich at lunch time.

[Liza]

Dugg up the last of my parsnips to roast with pots and rib for dinner tonight....

[Liza]

Dugg means digging deeper than dug....

[annacruachan]

Winkled out some baby leeks from the two remaining fishboxes and grabbed two handsful of purple sprouting broccoli. I had given up on the latter - it looked as if sprouting was the last thing on its mind a week ago! They were both delicious.

[Glutton4...]

I dug up some weird Parsnips (Yes, Hayley Parsnips ) this weekend. Unfortunately, the bed isn't deep enough (My Dad put membrane at the bottom for some weird reason) so they've grown beautifully until they hit the membrane then gone at right angles and all skinny.

They taste superb though!

[Snadger]

Carrots, leeks and stored onions for supper!

[COMPOST CORNER]

Leeks for Leek & tater soup.
Stored shallots for beef in red wine casserole.

[wellie]

I envy all of you your winter produce coming through right now, because this is Officially called 'The Hungry Gap' (bless you Joy!). It's allegedly the most difficult cropping time of the year to feed yourself. AND DON'T WE KNOW IT PEEPS!

As Trousers and I only came late to this particular kitchen garden mid-April last year, and having to 'find' the original kitchen garden soil, did prove a tad challenging, so having grown anything at all has been a complete bonus. I did manage to harvest about four 'mini leeks' this week, which was marginally more entertaining than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
And So... may I cheat for now and tell you that I do have stuff waiting in the wings? just so that you don't think I'm bluffing here about growing our own fruit and veg. BUT! my Red and my Green Brussel Sprouts are beginning to take on a whole new lease of life, and buttoning up tightly rather lovely now, and I am hoping to harvest some of these for this Sundays' Lunch.
Although I fear we may all be waiting a while before I break the news that we've managed to harvest one of our Savoy Cabbages. DOH!
Is there any possibility that you've got a patient bone in your body to wait for my Green Curly Kale that's currently knee high to a grasshopper?

I know I'm 'pratting on a bit here' but it is important to say this, because there will be new veg growers maybe reading what we've written.....

Think Ahead. Think Ahead. If you don't sow it or plant it, you can't possibly harvest it.
And I promise you.... 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there, can make all the difference to blowing your own trumpet on this harvesting thread, or regretting that you didn't, and just reading all about everyone else's.

[Nes]

I envy all of you your winter produce coming through right now, because this is Officially called 'The Hungry Gap' (bless you Joy!). It's allegedly the most difficult cropping time of the year to feed yourself. AND DON'T WE KNOW IT PEEPS!


Think Ahead. Think Ahead. If you don't sow it or plant it, you can't possibly harvest it.
And I promise you.... 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there, can make all the difference to blowing your own trumpet on this harvesting thread, or regretting that you didn't, and just reading all about everyone else's.

Well said! Some crops are pretty easy and don't need a lot of faffing about with, but as wellie says, if you don't sow it, you can't eat it!

I found my leeks did really well this year, in spite of being left to fester in small plugs for probably longer than ideal, and once planted out, they only got watered when I got round to it - rather sporadically. I now have enough for home grown leek and potato soup every day for weeks! (Ok, I'll come up with some other ideas for them too).

So the other day I mostly harvested: Five big leeks, some curly kale, a couple of sprouting broccoli shoots and three parsnips for roasting

[perkin]

4 baby leeks (very late sown autumn 09) - to be griddled and served with a mustardy cheese sauce alongside roasted veg this evening. YUM!

[tracy]

just harvested some tamina toms,iceberg,nantes carrots,parsnips,aubergines,one nice big marrow ...dont know wether to have a salad for tea or a roast

[rustylady]

just harvested some tamina toms,iceberg,nantes carrots,parsnips,aubergines,one nice big marrow ...dont know wether to have a salad for tea or a roast

Was going to accuse you of fibbing, til I realised where you live. Well done, and I so envy you. Nothing fresh here, apart from herbs (parsley and rosemary). Plenty in store though, dried borlotta beans, sauces made during the summer, and loads of jams and chutneys.

[stella]

2 pots of sprouting seeds then pinched the tops out of the peas I have grown on the windowsill and a scattering of chives on top, made a tasty green side dish

[wellie]

How Beautiful.....

Tracy, you shouldn't make Rustylady and my hearts stop like that? Here we were thinking that you were being oh so clever here in Blighty.....
(Rustylady, do a synchronised shake of head with Wellie right now? and...... Breathe.....?)
But it just goes to show how we all have to be on the ball at differing times of the year in different places on Planet Earth, and actually, credit where credit is due, completely well done you! A proud moment indeed. X

With the week ahead (allegedly) being sunny and spring-like, according to Trousers, we should now split ourselves in two maybe, and turn our thoughts to what we all need to SOW, so that we can post up on this thread later in the year, as to what we DID grow and are now harvesting.

It is so easy to think about doing it, not getting round to it, and then thinking "Rude World, if only I had, I'd be harvesting that now", and it being way too late to rectify it.
Honestly, believe me.... I've been there and regretted it too?! X

[organic]

Jerusalem Artichokes...

A whole carrier bag's worth!

I need to clear them out as they were there when I got the plot, and I need that space for something else entirely. I took up about 1 and a half fork-loads of earth and fished through it for the artichokes and was stunned at how many I got.

If today's haul was anything to go by, I've EASILY got a potato-sack's worth of the things and possibly much more than that. I think I'll have to start giving them away because there's no chance I'll be able to eat them all, not even with help!

They went well with the roast we had today, though I'd cook them a bit longer next time as they were a wee bit crunchy still.