So what did you eat from your garden today?

catznine

Just picked 4 strawberries! the lettuce is coming on well and should have tomatoes and cucumbers in a couple of weeks.

Have also just made a snail stew yuk! didn't know what to do with them and hated the thought of what the blue granules do to them and to the birds that might eat them, so I got the trowel and put them into a spare pot and poured beer over them. Well those little traps I set of yogurt pots filled with beer are much the same I still feel guilty tho!

Debt_Free_Chick

I'm picking lettuce at the moment. Not huge, firm heads of lettuce, but "thinnings" which are perfectly OK for a "leaf" salad.

Also ... potatoes (Charlotte) though they could stay in for another few weeks yet (then I've still got four more varieties to munch through!). Garlic is nearly ready and shallots won't be too far behind.

Eating radishes & rocket .... early carrots any day now and keeping an eager eye on beetroot (can't wait! )

Next month should be "the biggie" ....

nicki_2

We had lettuce from our garden last night for our salad as I finally finished the shop bought one. It was okay and I found a caterpillar so it's a good job I decided I was going to wash them really really well instead of just a rinse :rotfl: As I was preparing it OH telephoned his mum about something and I've got an order for a lettuce or two from them even though they live 2 hours away so they can have some when they come down early July (if there's any left) :rolleyes:

apprentice_tycoon

I've just been out to check t'top acre as my dear husband calls our little veg garden. The cherries will be ripe in around 2 days!! it's a young tree so not much fruit but I missed them last year, there were just 4 cherries ripening, I had watched them for days, each member of the family could eat one cherry each......the b**** birds got to them at dawn on the day that they were ripe, so there is 2 years worth of anticipation riding on this crop.
I think that I will have to throw a net over it now to protect it. I do feel a bit mean but they can have the run of the tayberry bush and the strawberries that I let run into the wild strip of land next to my proper strawberry patch.

I have these strawberries on ridges that are covered with weed suppresant fabric to keep them clean, there are 3 rows of 6 plants plus I have a low wall with 6 gro-bags lined up end to end, they have 4 plants in each. they dangle over the wall so they keep clean too. They all have bird nets over them.

I've just planted out some lettuce and leek seedlings to fill gaps. The asparagus plants have ferns over 4 feet tall now but I have another year to wait to crop them, I should have planted them years ago, they don't seem to be any bother (fingers crossed)

hornetgirl

Only lettuces here at the moment, and spearmint for the potatoes.

I reckon I'll have yellow courgettes ready in about a week. Also planted a short row of rocket on Sunday, and this morning the first bit of green is poking through already :j

The good weather seems to be doing wonders for the sweetcorn and the sunflowers - evry time I look they seem to be a couple of inches taller!

Caz2_2

loads of bloody lettuce, thats it. 1 strawberry is slowly ripening, 1 corgette is getting there. I have loads of nearly everything NOT READY. All my basil has been eaten over night and hubby thought he was helping by putting slug pellets on green beans, spent ages picking it all out and shouting at him I'm bloody organic. Oh well

Trying2Save_3

Gooseberry Jam :j (actually not from the garden, but my allotment - does that count?). Picked the gooseberries and made jam in the microwave for the first time. I'm so happy. Yippeee! Tastes great too!