The Three Ps - Plant, Pick, Process!

[Hans Mum]

Planted - Various squashes & pumpkins outside
Picked - Spuds, Toms, Coriander, Turnip thinnings
Processed - Turnips & Spuds, Toms & Coriander for tea tonight :-)

[Greenleaves]

Planted - Sprouts
Picked - Raspberries
Processed - Grandkids ate them

[Penellype]

Planted - nothing today
Picked - Meteor peas, spinach, balconi tomatoes (red and yellow)
Process - Chucked it all into a risotto

[Penellype]

Plant - nothing today
Pick - 5 marshmello strawberries
Process - straight into mouth - yum

[Jungle Jane]

Plant - 1 celebration runner bean plant,3 French marigold,2 tomato plants,2 sweet pepper plants,planted my thin grass like leeks out into raised bed,they've been growing since march I think.
Pick - lettuce,rocket & 2 cherry tomatoes
Process - cheese,tomato,lettuce & rocket sandwich for lunch.

[Bren In Pots]

Plant - Leeks
Pick - lettuce, basil, radish and strawberries
Process - just a quick was then straight to plate.

[roitelet]

Plant nothing
Pick New potatoes, Lettuce, Beetroot and Raspberries.
Processed all eaten for lunch Yumeeeee!

[Penellype]

Plant - 50 pea Geisha and 3 runner bean Red Rum
Pick - the last of the spinach red vein and Tirza, 2 french beans and 3 nice chunky little carrots. 8 strawberries. Several cherry tomatoes (Balconi red and yellow).
Process - cooked the spinach, beans and carrots to eat with fish for tea, followed by strawberries and ice cream. The tomatoes have gone into the tomato store, which will (hopefully) gradually expand as the year progresses and give me fresh tomatoes until Christmas. The ripest will be eaten for lunch tomorrow

[Jungle Jane]

Yesterday....
Plant - 2 moneymaker tomato plants outside (dug out some grass to make space,I've planted about 35 tomato plants now,it's hard to find space for the last few plants & they're starting to flower,I prefer moneymaker in the ground,they do really well).
Pick - 8 strawberries,red duke of York potatoes,bingo peas,lettuce & rocket.
Process - ate the strawberries whilst weeding & tidying strawberry bed. Lettuce & rocket in a cheese sandwich at lunchtime. Garlic & herb potato wedges,eggs & peas for dinner(red duke of York don't soak up oil like other earlies do).

[Penellype]

Plant - 2 cucumbers, 2 melons and transplanted 5 onions to make room for them.
Pick - assorted lettuce, tomatoes, nasturtium leaves and flowers, peas, spinach, land cress, chervil.
Process -

Just added a cold salmon steak and a nice dollop of mayonnaise
Nice to see some colour in a salad after months of mainly green.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Plant, spring onions and radish.

Pick 1 Calabrese.

Process give to .........................SWMBO

[veggiechicken]

Plant - more courgette seeds
Pick - Strawberries and mangetout
Process - eaten on the hoof

[1Bee]

(Over the last couple of days)

Plant: Red Russian kale; swiss chard.
Pick: PSB thinnings
Process: steamed with beef stew and dumplings. Mmmmmm.

[Penellype]

Plant - beetroot, spring onions
Pick - bag of spinach, kohlrabi, 1 french bean, 4 carrots, handful of peas, large bowl of assorted strawberries.
Process - strawberries eaten with ice cream, remainder cooked for tea. Put half of the spinach in the freezer (cooked) to see how it copes.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Plant- curly kale and more Mesclun.

Pick- loads of calabrese, salad leaves, radish, spring onion and first cumber.

Prepare- calabrese to SWMBO the rest wash and scoff.