Re: What are you harvesting today?

by polgara 13th August 2011, 1:07 pm

Runner beans, tomatoes & broadbeans. Well pleased.

by Dandelion 13th August 2011, 5:22 pm

Runners here as well, also plums and raspberries.

Spring onions-in-a-bucket are coming along well. Thanks for the suggestion Pol; I think I'll grow them in containers all the time now.

by polgara 13th August 2011, 11:19 pm

My pleasure D.

by Kristy lee 14th August 2011, 8:06 am

strawberries here are almost ready to eat. My little girl is having a struggle waiting till they are ready. I had to stop and buy a few kgs from the farm up the road the other day lol.

I don't think i'll get out of going to the local strawberry festival this year:lol:

by Compostwoman 14th August 2011, 5:42 pm

Beans, courgettes, tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, salads, peppers, onions

need to pick the damsons and blaisdon red plums.

am dreaming of tomatoes, now...getting sick of them!

by Chilli-head 14th August 2011, 10:33 pm

Well, having been away for a week I returned to a sea of weeds. Some useful stuff amongst it though. A lot of slighly overripe/split tomatoes have gone through the passata press. Cobra and Blue lake beans cooked into Madhur Jaffery's "Spicy Green beans", which seems to survive freezing better than the beans alone do for some reason. Also fridge stocked with carrots, cabbage, cucumbers and tromboncino corgettes. Tromboncinos make great kolokithakia tiganita - Greek style corgette slices dipped in a beer batter and fried - which is what I plan to do with them Very Happy

by Chilli-head 23rd August 2011, 10:27 am

First sweetcorn of the season went from the plant to the barbecue as quickly as I could manage last night. Yum. Also harvested more tromboncino, orange peppers, and too many cucumbers ...

Quince tree looks very promising this year after many years of being completely unproductive. I may be asking you lot for recipie suggestions shortly Very Happy

by polgara 29th August 2011, 10:19 am

Today
Lettuce
spring onions
radish
Onions
sage.
Well pleased with that.

by polgara 3rd September 2011, 12:48 pm

Pulled the resat of the onions. Have enough for a couple of months probably so well pleased.

A nice bunch of parsley drying in the oven.

by MrsC 3rd September 2011, 5:51 pm

Chard this week - annoyingly a bit late as I think the slugs beat me to some of it!

Mrs C

by Lottie 8th September 2011, 5:20 pm

I just picked a whole basket full of Cox apples, bootiful Very Happy

and I used the same basket my nan used when she harvested fruit.. kinda cool.. Wink

I've also got the one she used to use for collecting eggs too! Bless her cottons.. Very Happy

by Dandelion 8th September 2011, 8:04 pm

I've hung up a tomato plant in the shed to see if the toms will ripen quicker - the tomatoes look a little more hopeful but they're so SLOW (and Mr D detests chutney of any kind!!)

by polgara 11th September 2011, 9:30 am

OH just picked 2 runnerbeans, 13ins long. He is so pleased especially as we had a bad start with them.

by Luath 11th September 2011, 1:11 pm

Autumn Bliss raspberries and quinces here today; crab apples this afternoon I hops, three kinds; elderberries and bullaces.

by Dandelion 26th September 2011, 8:42 pm

I've just picked the apples from my tiny Spartan tree.The tree is a bit taller than me and only a few years old but yielded enough apples to fill four large plastic seed trays. Not bad, I thought! I wanted to leave them on the tree as long as possible because they taste better picked fresh and don't keep very well, but the tree is in the chickens' part of the garden so any windfalls are theirs. After a breezy weekend it looked as if the chickens were going to have more apples than us!

by Kristy lee 27th September 2011, 11:22 am

passionfruit is not quite ready but starting to look good. Have covered them up as the magpies were eyeing them off and i really want to keep these birds out of that part of the yard (the kids spend heaps of time there and i don't want them to get swooped whilst playing)

Just planted some new mandarine, lemonade and orange trees

by Chilli-head 27th September 2011, 11:29 am

Beetroot of unusual size ! ONE beet made enough Borscht for seven large helpings. This is the first year I've grown Forono and I'm impressed; I expected it to be woody and have poor colour having got that big, but not at all, lovely deep colour and nice flavour. It will definitely go on the sowing list for nest year.

by Dandelion 27th September 2011, 7:56 pm

Kristy lee wrote:passionfruit is not quite ready but starting to look good. Have covered them up as the magpies were eyeing them off and i really want to keep these birds out of that part of the yard (the kids spend heaps of time there and i don't want them to get swooped whilst playing)

Just planted some new mandarine, lemonade and orange trees

My sister lives in Perth: in the garden of her previous house she had a mandarin tree. One of her sons got into trouble at the age of six for selling the fruit from the edge of the front lawn - she thought he was quietly playing until a man knocked at the front door and said he would buy the lot!!!

by Chilli-head 3rd October 2011, 10:35 am

Rocoto chillies at last ! This summer has not been a good one for my chillies, with many taking a long time to ripen and coming out disappointingly mild. The Rocotos are properly hot though. I gave some to C-H Jnr to taste; he seemed to quite like them, though he did need to run two laps of the house and drink a glass of water ... I'll make a true Chilli head of him yet, I reckon Laughing

by Chilli-head 5th November 2011, 9:09 pm

Today I picked the last of the Ancho and Mulato chillies, and a good few borlotti beans. There's some chicken and chorizo in the fridge, so that sounds like a good meal sorted Very Happy

by polgara 29th November 2011, 11:37 am

Still picking tomatoes to ripen indoors, also lettuce. Spring onions will wait for Christmas. Think with the change in the weather we shall not get much more though.

by polgara 10th December 2011, 9:42 pm

Still picking tomatoes, hopefully we shall fresh homegrown toms, lettuce & spring onions for Christmas,what a treat to have nice sweet tomatoes at this time of year.

by polgara 23rd December 2011, 11:09 am

Picked carrots, radish & spring onions today. Onions small but will be just right for potato salad & garnish. Will also be able to pick lettuce on Boxing Day.

Runner beans from the garden are in the freezer, so we will having own veg for dinners. Carrots will also be good for dips.

by Wilhelm Von Rhomboid 23rd December 2011, 11:28 am

Brussels sprouts, mistletoe and yet another goose.

by Kristy lee 23rd December 2011, 12:22 pm

we're still getting some strawberries coming up here which is strange as they are normally finished by now, won't complain about that though.

Tomatoes, passionfruit, mulberries, cucumbers are going great atm.

by Dandelion 31st December 2011, 7:36 pm

Did a bit of a 'stir fry forage' around the garden - tried some Cavolo Nero kale, which is a bit young really, but it was delicious, and the chinese broccoli which is flowering before it should be and was also delicious.

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