Today I removed from the garden:
Raspberries - still only a dozen or two per day and still extracted with care due to the bees avidly pollinating our future berries.
Pod peas and shell peas - just a handful all together, but I'm pleased they are still producing at all after a long spell of very warm weather
Scarlet runner beans - four or five only, and they are hard to spot
Rattlesnake beans - a big handful of the most delicious pole beans we've ever tried
Papaya pear squash - two perfect shiny yellow pears that went into the fridge; we ate the previous fridge ones for supper today
Zucchini - four good ones and one dark bulbous specimen that was in an awkward spot to reach. Gave one to the neighbour. Glad someone posted on Facebook a link to 100 ways with zucchini (if only I could find it again!)
Garlic - one bulb, because we were down to two cloves. Digging damaged one of the cloves, so it went into the wok with the squash.
Basil - enough to add flavour to the squash, though most of it should have been picked because it's trying to flower
Spanish onions - five that weren't really ready. These were dug up a week ago and were hanging out to dry
Swiss chard - enough for supper. A good deep green vegetable to help me grow some new blood cells. I'm not crazy about it on it's own - butter and red wine vinegar are a big help.
Not today, but yesterday and Wednesday, we harvested two little red tomatoes, a Tiny Tim and a Tigerella.
These are happy times.
Such a joy to read Heather. I wish you could come over and plan my little plot. I'm not sure whether to dig 2 smaller beds, or one huge one? Ideally, I'd like to start digging them soon to use next year.
ReplyDeleteDecisions, decisions *sigh*
If only I was competent to hand out advice, Katrina. One huge bed means less edge when it come to mowing the lawn (if the bed is surrounded by lawn) than two smaller ones. Two smaller beds have advantages, too, such as keeping track of crop rotations or making chores less daunting (I'll weed this bed today and that one tomorrow). But did you know, the human eye has a preference for odd numbers? I say go for 3 beds. Wish I could be there to help you prepare them.
ReplyDeleteeeeeep! Three beds!! Doug's gonna love you!!
ReplyDeleteI did wonder about rotating the crops, but I tend to grow a fair amount in containers....
I think three might be the way to go. When I had my little allotment, we gave up almost a third of it to potatoes, and grew lots of onions, leeks etc in another third. Salad veg I usually save for pots as the slugs and pigeons consumed most of my lettuces. The final third I grew cabbage, cauliflower and purple sprouting broccolli.
I think I'll go for three!
Thanks Heather x