the hungry gap cometh...

[Two_Sheds]

That's it, I've just used the last of my own sweetcorn, chickpeas and shelly beans out of the freezer.

There's still some allotment soup in the freezer, and a few leeks & cabbages left on the plot. Also a dozen jars of dried beans.

I can't wait to eat salad again

[FionaH]

I was craving salad the other day and bought a ready packed bag from co op. Euuuurgh!

[Dane End Dolly]

I am growing salad leaves in my greenhouse in an old wine crate that i have lined with plastic, I am lucky enough to eat salad every day and with the cost of those bags of salad leaves, i think i am saving a fortune, i also still have winter gem lettuces that i have grown in my greehouse in pots still going. i have also sown different salad leaves that will be ready when these ones are finally done.

K

[FionaH]

Dolly I wish I had been as organised as you! I have a few CCA coming up now but not big enough to eat yet

[Nicos]

Strangely enough- I bought a huge lettuce yesterday-( and nearly fainted at the price)

Still- as needs must!

yup I'm ready for some tasty tomatoes again- these out of season ones are rubbish compared to our own aren't they??

[SarzWix]

I've still got some kale, leeks and swede on the plot, but the kale is in the way of where my spuds will be planted so it's going to have to come up...

Stored, we still have some dried beans (about half a coffee jar), a handful of garlic bulbs, about half a dozen onions, a bag of frozen tomatoes (that I just found yesterday ), a jar of pickled onions and a couple of jars of jam.

TBH though, after last year... I'm bl***y chuffed to still have that much left

On the other hand, I'm peed off that I still have got hardly anything sown for this year... Bl***y OU course!

[HeyWayne]

Not a big home grown salad lover - it's the bugs that put me (and especially LadyWayne) off.

I've still got a squash that's yet to be broken into (been meaning to do something with it for months), and loads of dried beans in various jars. Haven't quite worked out what to do with them either - it's my first year drying beans.

Have a box of frozen chillies in the freezer (odd that I know - frozen stuff in the freezer that is).

Oh, and a box of elderberries that I've yet to work out what to do with.

[northepaul]

I wanted to gorw some cut and come again salad this year in wooden fruit boxes from the greengrocer. I asked him if I could have a couple but apparently they have to be returned to the supplier...
Well at least they are recycled I suppose

[jacob]

On the plus side I've still got a few parsnips. I'll eat a last few Jerusalem Artichokes this weekend before distributing the rest more evenly over the JA plot, but the tubors had just started to grow again last week. A few chilis, a last bulb of garlic and that's it... Come on, rocket in the greenhouse!

[maytreefrannie]

TS, I was thinking of salad when I opened your post - now I'm thinking must get my @$$$ in gear and sow some lettuce and mixed leaves.

Thanks for the jump start.

[Bren In Pots]

I am growing salad leaves in my greenhouse in an old wine crate that i have lined with plastic, I am lucky enough to eat salad every day and with the cost of those bags of salad leaves,

I did the same thing setting 8 plants when my toms had finished and by only taking off a few leaves at a time they've kept us in lettuce all winter.

[Dane End Dolly]

I also have a couple of bulbs of garlic left, and in the freezer i have courgettes - yes they get everywhere in a glut, redcurrants, blackberries- thinking of making some blackberry vodka, cabbage, runner beans, tomatos, chillis and beetroot. this year will be my first for drying beans so none at yet and just finished my last squash. ok and i still have a couple of pink fir potatos I am still eating and are still perfect

[Pumpkin Becki]

I should have (and I stress the word should) leeks, parsnips, kales, PSB and various other brassicas at the lottie, overwintering happily. I suspect in reality, the slugs have eaten the leeks and parsnips and the pigeons have eaten the rest, who wants to put a fiver on it?

However, in the freezer I have still got a handful of raspberries and two mahoosive bags of runner beans.

[Shadylane]

I've got loads of p******s left but to be honest I'm sick of em. When I get round to it I'm going to mash them then when the spuds run out (still a reasonable amount of little uns but going soft and sprouting now) at least we'll have a substitute. Got a few runners in the freezer, some rasberries, rhubarb and gosseberries, a couple of garlic bulbs, some shallots, PSB looking tatty but fighting back, ditto the chard though not fighting quite as hard, a few sprouts and some leeks still in the ground.

Wasn't organised with lettuce at all so had to buy. I'm interested though, how many of you only eat what you grow? Do you eat stuff like tomatoes out of season or wait until your own grow? Do you go without spuds until June or relent and get some Jerseys from the supermarket? We've tried to eat only stuff in season and what we grow but there's only so many leek and parsnip bake you can eat. We get tinned toms but not fresh, still had to buy lettuce and carrots as the latter were a disaster. Managed to cope without cucumbers in sarnies at all this year and didn't really miss them but we do buy fruit like apples and bananas.

[janeyo]

PSB just coming at my bit of garden at nanna's. Still got Kale here, but it's starting to bolt to will have to go to the chooks.

I CUT SOME SALAD LEAVES YESTERDAY!!!!!!! From the mid feb sowings... they were DIVINE! But nobody else could have any cos there wasn't enough. They were yum in a cheese sarnie