What have you already eaten from your patch?

misskool

some strawbs, lettuces, courgettes, radishes

MORPH3US

Sorry meant to say but don't want to distract the thread... I have loads of Pak Choi but never know what to use it in, does anyone have any good ideas?

Le-y

we've had lots of lettuce and some strawberries - got two on there waiting to be eaten right now but i am saving them for my husband when he gets home as he's not had any yet lol!

just eagerly awaiting my potatoes to be ready!

Sunnyday

Enormous lovely hot radish, salad leaves, peas and later this week i shall pick the lovely courgette that is on the first plant :j

I`m another one looking at the potatoes daily and wondering

My strawberries are tiny green things at the mo but i can`t wait and seem to spend a lot of time in the garden willing things to grow.

SD

sunset_gold

Strawberries

Radish

Lettuce

Rocket

Chives

Greenfly!

Beccatje

huggermugger wrote: »

Intrigued about the potatoes - not sure when to harvest mine. Got two sorts; Edzell Blue & Something Kidney which I am told are Jersey Royals, They're in compost bags. Planted on 1st June and romping away, with flowers forming. When do you think? (I walk past them every day and it's like having to look at my Christmas presents under the tree - no idea what's in there & can't wait!)

It's exciting isn't it?
The tatties will be ready for harvest when the plants start to go brown. Wilting leaves and such is a good sign of them being just about ready.
So I'm afraid you'll have to be a little bit more patient.

misskool

MORPH3US wrote: »

Sorry meant to say but don't want to distract the thread... I have loads of Pak Choi but never know what to use it in, does anyone have any good ideas?

the babies/thinnings we eat raw in salads. Any bigger ones get stirfried, they don't take long to cook.

Otherwise, steam lightly until just tender. Then in a frying pan, brown off ginger, garlic in sunflower oil. then add some soya sauce to the oil and garlic and ginger mix. Then pour it all on the pak choi.

Primrose

This is the time of year when all the earlier hard work starts to reap some benefits.
We've had masses of mixed salad leaves and bunching spring onions. The first courgettes and kohl rabi will probably be reading for picking next week. Some Swiss Chard leaves are just crying out to be picked. We've had two pickings of strawberries for desserts with two bagfulls frozen for mixed compotes later in autumn. With luck the gooseberries may be ready next week. Have no idea how many potatoes are lurking in my various potato containers but it's all happening out there.
Have also picked a nice crop of caterpillers from my few cabbage plants before they started to do too much damage. Unfortunately the birds won't eat this variety so they got flushed down the loo!

ceridwen

Mixed spicy salad leaves are doing extremely well and getting various different lettuce leaves. I have the feeling somehow that I'm never going to do at all well with courgettes/peppers - darn it.....I guess you just have to know your limitations and, if you've had several attempts at a particular plant and it hasnt worked out (even if its supposed to be dead easy) think..."Okay...I'll grow something else instead"...

So - loadsa salad leaves so far....

Megansmum

Big brown bird with a smug look had our first red strawberry! DD2 had the next 5 - she's 22 months!!

Iceberg lettuce turned out to be rocket !