The Three Ps - Plant, Pick, Process!

[PyreneesPlot]

Planted - peas, lettuces, kohlrabi, romanesco caulis & mizuna.
Picked - gherkins, courgettes, cucumbers, basil, French beans, radish, lettuce, beetroot, mangetout, leafbeet, mizuna, a carrot, spring onions
Processed - gherkins (pickled) & froze beans & mangetout. Everything else salad or stirfried.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Plant- spring cabbage April.

Harvest- cumbers, more calabrese.

Prepare- blanch with some courgette, cover in rich cheese sauce and freeze. Credited to SWMBO.

[Martin H]

Plant - Kohl rabi and lettuce (Salad Bowl Red, Mixed Green Leaves) from modules.
Harvest - Cauli (All The Year Round), the first summer cabbage (Golden Acre), the first dwarf french beans (Aquilon), lettuce (Webbs Wonderful, Salad Bowl Red), potatoes (Arran Pilot).
Prepare - Simple boiled potatoes, cauli and beans to accompany a piece of breaded haddock. Ready any minute now...

[1Bee]

We planted a large tool store box on the plot today... ;-)
Picked courgettes and mint, sliced dressed with olive oil, chilli flakes and the fresh mint, grilled on the BBQ.

*drool*

[Penellype]

This weekend:

Plant - broccoli (in bigger pots)

Pick - another bucket of Rocket potatoes, kohlrabi (bolting), peas, carrots, onion, 1 french bean, 2 baby courgettes, couple of house grown Shirley tomatoes, strawberries, 1 sprig of white currants

Process - boiled the potatoes, ate the currants straight off the bush, strawberries with ice cream and froze some of hte peas. The rest went into stir fries with some chicken.

[Martin H]

This afternoon:

Plant - 25 leeks, 15 Rudbeckias.

Pick - Arran Pilot and Charlotte potatoes, a handful of carrots, a bolted cauliflower, some raspberries.

Process - Arran Pilot mash and cauliflower with some nice cumberland sausage.

[Greenleaves]

Planted - winter cabbages
Picked - 2 kgs Lady Balfour spuds
Processed - Golden Acre cabbage ( cut yesterday ) and the above spuds

[Noosner]

Planted out: PSBs and Butternut Squashes

Picked: loads of mixed salad leaves, mange tout, tons of broad beans, some strawberries, a globe artichoke, some new potatoes, some redcurrants and blackcurrants, lots of goosegogs, lots of rhubarb and one carrot.

Processed: broad beans for tea and freezer. Ate the strawberries at lottie. Boiled the artichoke and ate it, put the potatoes into a chicken stew, stewed the red and blackcurrants together for tomorrow's brekkie, shared the lettuce, mange tout and carrot with Mr Noosner in a salad, froze the goosegogs, made a rhubarb crumble and froze that too.

[Penellype]

Planted Geisha peas in a 30l pot (the Meteor they are meant to be following are not ready to pull out yet).

Picked Meteor and Hurst Greenshaft peas, courgette, bowl of mixed strawberries

Process peas into freezer, via "quality control" (tasting one from each pod ), more peas and courgette eaten with salmon for tea. Strawberries eaten just as they come.

[Penellype]

Planted runner bean Red Rum, fennel, sowed komatsuna

Picked mixed lettuce, nasturtium leaves, fennel thinnings, peas for lunch, more peas, carrots, kohlrabi, tomato (Shirley), baby courgettes (yellow and green) for tea, strawberries

Process salad for lunch, stir fry for tea, ate some of the strawberries with ice cream and made coulis out of the others (VERY hard work!).