Picked my first ........... 2018

[Martin H]

Potatoes "Charlotte" .

I carefully tipped out one of my pots just now and collected these beauties:



650 grams will go nicely with our chicken casserole tonight.

The pot was started in February in the greenhouse, using old compost revitalised with some BFB and two tubers saved from last year's allotment crop.

I replanted the pot after this picking and gave it a good soak, hopefully the little ones left behind will grow over the next couple of weeks.

[Penellype]

Shirley tomato, from a January sown plant on the sitting room windowsill.

[Penellype]

Raspberry. Glen Ample - absolutely gorgeous.

[HoneyChild]

dozen cobra french beans from the greenhouse

[mothhawk]

Just about to pick an orange sweet pepper grown on the windowsill from a seed out of a shop bought pepper

[Penellype]

Purple podded sugar peas Sugar Magnolia (2), really only mangetout size. I wanted to see what these taste like. They are nicer than the Bijou mangetout that I grew a few years ago, but not as nice as the Hurst Greenshaft peas I ate alongside them.

[HoneyChild]

2 courgette de nice a fruit rond (seeds from Lidl). I've never grown them before and picked them when roughly the size of a tennis ball. Now I'm reading I should've picked them when the size of a golf ball. Will maybe try one of them tonight, hopefylly they will taste nice.

[Bren In Pots]

My first telephone peas of the season weighing 1lb 2oz when podded.

[HoneyChild]

2 hungarian hot wax peppers, currently in the oven.

[veggiechicken]

Yellow Crookneck squashes (seeds from Real Seeds).

[Jonny.D]

First of the Alpine strawberries, pleasantly surprised at the taste of them.

[Greenleaves]

Golden Gate beans.....very nice with my steak tonight

[HoneyChild]

Picked my fist Bonica F1 aubergine from Lidl. I decided to pick it whilst fairly small to help encourage more to form. Then sliced it and made it in to aubergine 'pizza'

[Bren In Pots]

The first of my blackberries, don't know the variety just that its thorn less.

[Penellype]

First blueberries of the year yesterday - Bluecrop.