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[Christian]

Lots of carrots and a few courgettes

[Valkyrie]

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!

[Mrs Frugal]

A nice basket of new second early potatoes, 6 courgettes, some peas and some blueberries.

[chickencam]

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

[Mrs Frugal]

More courgettes, a huge cabbage for the girls, some peas, some Sungold tomatoes and a half pint of blueberries.

[Kermit]

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.

[Valkyrie]

onions and toms - allsorts.

[redhotchick]

Courgettes

 

[sjp]

catriona spuds dwarf beans broad beans and a cabbage

[Valkyrie]

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"!

[redhotchick]

Potatoes, lettuce and a handful of broad beans.

[Valkyrie]

Had to go and pick some onions because I forgot I needed them for dinner

[chickencam]

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

[Valkyrie]

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!

[chickencam]

tomatoes and 2 big cucumbers

[Peter S]

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

[Valkyrie]

Only a few courgettes then?

[chickencam]

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

[Mrs Frugal]

Runner beans, a BIG jug of blueberries and............courgettes .

[Alis girls]

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........."

[bellekatz]

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??

[Lesley]

...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

[redhotchick]

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!

[sjp]

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

[Valkyrie]

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.