What have you already eaten from your patch?

buxtonrabbitgreen

Lettuce, parsley, mint, and straberries so far. I think my raspberries will ripen in the next week or so. They suddenly go from small greeny brown fruits to lush raspberries. Oh I have cherries ready to pick too but I am going to have to get the steps as all the ripe ones are out of reach.

Ken68

Have started mixing lime leaves and carrot tops with salad. Adds bulk tho not too much of the latter.

Doom_and_Gloom

So far I've eaten the following that I've grown:
Strawberries
Lettuce (not sure how many kinds )
Mizuna
Rocket
Spinach
Spinach beet
Mint
Chives
Parsley
Nettles - for soup (the nettles may have grown where they weren't wanted but that doesn't mean they get wasted and I did let them carry on growing for this reason :rotfl:)
Baby carrots (thinnings lol)
Courgette (should get another in the next few days)

spirit

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?

you can put it in stir fries - it only takes a nano second to wilt down. You can use it pretty much the same way as spinach.

I prefer it in salads though, just shredded.

creme_brulee

pak choi, chard, strawberries, radish, red onions, mint, the odd mushroom (from mushroom compost spread over the patch), peas, lettuce, courgette :j

Zazen999

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!)

1st June?

12 days ago?

Anyway - this calendar year we have had peppers from last year's plants, beans, peas and tomatoes from last year's harvest; plus onions [autumn sets], lettuces all winter, peas, broad beans, potatoes [you don't have to wait for them to go brown, just furtle underneath after 8-10 weeks and pick a meal from the soil, and earth it back up again, strawberries, loads of garlic [both wet and harvested 30 plants yesterday], and loads of herbs.

Courgettes and cukes on plants now, and tomatoes just waiting and waiting for them to get nice and big and ripen.

huggermugger

Zazen999 wrote: »

1st June?

12 days ago?

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I meant 1st April! :o:o
My birthday as it happens - so not sure how I mistook that...

I would be an over-eager gardener otherwise, wouldn't I??

huggermugger

And whilst I love the idea of furtling (great word) not sure how I'd do that in a compost bag... maybe I could slit it & then use duck tape to seal it back up agin - hmmm - goes away to think.....

Zazen999

huggermugger wrote: »

Zazen999 wrote: »

1st June?

12 days ago?

I meant 1st April! :o:o
My birthday as it happens - so not sure how I mistook that...

I would be an over-eager gardener otherwise, wouldn't I??

Well, I was wondering!!!

You can furtle in bags, as you say, slice it and then gaffer tape it up.....make sure the bag is bone dry when you do. Are you intending to use the bags again?

You could just dig your hand down the side of the bag, with a marigold glove on [or bare hands if you don't mind getting muddy paws], and see what you can grab hold of.

Depending on the type, they may well be ready now anyway. You never get as many or as big in bags as in the ground - so be prepared for that.

Winged_one

We've had a lot of radishes, 4 dinners of broad beans, 2 pods of peas, a few lettuce leaves, 1 carrot thinning (all to myself) and 1 strawberry (shared between the 3 of us). (That's of this year's sowings, we are just finished the last of the leeks from last year with last Sunday;s dinner).

Broad beans are coming good now, I hope to have mange tout by next weekend and early potatoes in the next couple of weeks. And a proper harvest of peas soon. Need to sow more radishes though.