Christian Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Lots of carrots and a few courgettes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 4 calabrese heads. I have looked at the stalks left from earlier pickings and little florets also ready to pick - arghhh! I have given some to mum. We'll soon look like jolly green giants at this rate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 A nice basket of new second early potatoes, 6 courgettes, some peas and some blueberries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 We fed my BIL & SIL last night and the only thing that we bought was the chicken. We had new potatoes, roast potatoes, french beans, baby carrots, roasted courgette ( ) and turnips. I had fresh raspberries and redcurrants on my cereal this morning too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 More courgettes, a huge cabbage for the girls, some peas, some Sungold tomatoes and a half pint of blueberries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kermit Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Just about to get: raspberries strawberries loganberries blackcurrants gooseberries (nice sweet red ones) These can go on some home made meringues with home made ice cream - yum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 onions and toms - allsorts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhotchick Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Courgettes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 catriona spuds dwarf beans broad beans and a cabbage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Just been bean picking for the best part of an hour! A couple of days of rain and they all went bonkers. By far the best is Lazy Housewife and virtually filled the trug. Next comes the purple ones (Blue Coco - I didn't have many plants survive to be planted, but if I had I would have been inundated with the pods!) and then the Ice/crystal wax - they look like little icicles so quite easy to spot. This year they have grown potty and want to climb so I have been trying to hunt under masses of leaves and stems to find them! I will have to chop some more calabrese as some have started to flower and I can't pick them quick enough. The runners are disappointing and I think some of my saved seed has crossed with Hestia - which is dwarf and the pods are much shorter. New lot and a new site next year. Mind you, loads of blackfly - no use squirting with the magic garlic mix - the rain just washes it away and the aphids all go "phew"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhotchick Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Potatoes, lettuce and a handful of broad beans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Had to go and pick some onions because I forgot I needed them for dinner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Calabrese, the first time I have managed to grow it under enviromesh, normally we don't have room and it gets loads of caterpillars in it This year clean as a whistle also had some purple kohl rabi (pale green inside lovely purple on the skin) and a lovely cabbage and more courgettes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Loads of toms big and small - two huge beefsteak ones. Other than that I picked loads yesterday so giving the garden a break to catch up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 tomatoes and 2 big cucumbers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter S Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Took on an allotment this year, and so far we have picked... Courgettes, courgettes and courgettes 7 lb charlotte and 5 lb red Duke of York spuds, before the slugs beat us to them Many, many broad beans Quite a few mangetout The odd red onion Radishes, beetroot and kohl rabi Oh, and a few courgettes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Only a few courgettes then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Don't talk to me about courgettes Every meal has grated courgette in it at the moment. Courgette omelette, grated into pasta sauces, even in our sausage rissoles for tea. YD doen't like them unless they are grated and disguised. We also eat them fried roasted etc. I am having a go at a chocolate courgette cake tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Runner beans, a BIG jug of blueberries and............courgettes . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 stop moaning you lot- i picked 3 huge courgettes today - had one baked with fish-pie for dinner. Got some broad beans, dug up my onions and some potatoes. i feel a song coming on "...and a courgette in a pear tree........." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellekatz Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Well, picked our first yellow courgette today, some mini green beans, mangetout and lbs and lbs of spuds, plus a few onions and a couple of spring onions Anyone know the best way to store potatoes?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 ...in paper feed sacks, in a cool shed. We dug up all the 'freebies' today - the potatoes which we had inadvertently left in the ground last year. We picked enough to really fill a builders wheelbarrow! They were.....erm...... new potatoes.....some the size of a small football! and mos tthe size of my fist! We have 2 sacks full and a bucket of the ones we speared with the fork Apart from that we've picked all sorts of vegetables......you name it, we've picked it.....apart from parsnips which didn't grow at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhotchick Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I'm not complaining about my courgettes! I love them! This week I picked about a pound and a half. My broad beans are very sad this year though This is my second year growing them. They were so easy last year! I think I have planted them too densely this year. I'm going to water them and pay them and bit more attention and see if that makes a difference. To store potatoes let them dry off, and then store in a thick paper bag. The bags that chicken feed comes in for example! My local Chinese restaurant grows courgettes, pak choi and other chinese greens. They have yellow courgettes this year. Cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 8 mushroom flats of spuds mainly first earlies couple of seconds 1 late main. have to say I'm well pleased with most of them 1 flat 1 variety all but one tray full or overflowing just got to wash them now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 OH emptied his bag of maincrop spuds today. It contained 2 huge ones and a big ants nest. He wasn't impressed with his crop, but I said at least it was more than he started with. The girls were delighted with the ants - they had to keep going back because of the nipping. I could tell when they were back in the compost - lots of squeaks when the ants were biting. Other than that, loads of beans and another beetroot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
