June is the month for Harvests and this year is no exception. Here are the harvests I’ve had this month in the Vegetable Garden.
Red ‘Walderman Dark’ Lettuce
I absolutely love red lettuce. I love the texture of the leaves, they look like they are bubbling and shiny. The flash of green in the centre is unexpected but fantastic. It’s great looking lettuce for the salad bowl and tasty too. It’s a crunchy cos lettuce type leaf.
Lettuce ‘Lollo Biondi’
Another great shaped and texture of lettuce sitting in little mounds on top of the soil. The leaves are not too crinkly but a perfect size to harvest from the outside, when you need a leaf or two for a sandwich.
Grow green and red lettuce together to make a colourful impact in your salad bowl and in the vegetable garden.
Mini Cucumbers
Mini cucumbers are fantastic, they just keep coming, the trick is to keep harvesting them when they are Mini in size and then more will grow.
We love them in our house. The variety I’m growing this year called ‘Piccolino F1 mini’, if they get too big, they do have spines on the outside, however you can rub them off under a tap. The flavour is fresh and very cucumbery.
Try growing Mini Vegetables here with my guide to the mini veg varieties.
Broad Beans
The Broad Beans are still doing well, I am harvesting approximately 10 for every meal for two. Started harvesting on 15th June and still loads of pods on the four plants.
See my Broad Bean Series for more details including a handy Free PDF checklist which you can Save or Print & keep for next year so you can Sow, Grow and Harvest your own Broad Beans.
Radish
The radish ‘French Breakfast’ variety are great for a small patch in your garden, they grow in June very quickly and in under 4 weeks, you will be harvesting them for that crunch in your salad bowl.
Unfortunately I wasn’t quick enough with the harvesting and some radishes have now bolted (flowered). They go a bit woody in taste when the plant bolts and runs to seed, so try to harvest when they are popping out of the soil.
Loganberries
Where do I begin with loganberries? They are a cross between a raspberry and a blackberry. Their vines are unruly, lengthy but that does mean you are in for a good harvest if berries and the vine are in full sun.
Their taste is sweet and tart depending on when you pick them. They have to be really dark red and almost squishy to the touch when they are harvested to get the greatest taste sensation.
The Harvest Series
January – We have Autumn Cauliflowers
February – Musselburgh Leek Harvest
February – How to Harvest & Cook Cauliflower Romanesco
May – Radish Harvest – Sow to Harvest in 4 Weeks
May – Lettuce and Pak Choi Harvest in Late May and Early June
June – Red & Green Lettuce, Radish, Broad Beans, Cucumbers, Logan Berries, Blueberries
June – Lettuce, Peas, Radish and Baby Cucumbers.
June – How to Harvest your Broad Bean Pods
June – Harvests
July – Broad Beans, Peach, Blackberry’s, Lettuce, Cherry Tomatoes, Sweet Peppers & Mini Cucumbers
July – Beans, Carrots, Kohl Rabi and first tomatoes
July – How to Harvest a Tomato
July – Harvests
July – Colourful Salad Bowl Harvest
August – How to Harvest Spring Garlic
August – Blackberries, strawberries, Baby squash, ball courgettes, Carrots, French beans, spinach, tomatoes.
August – Harvests
August – 1 Courgette, 2 Courgette, 3 Courgette and more..
August – A Colourful Palette of Orange & Red Sweet Peppers & Tomatoes
August – How to Harvest Sweet Peppers
August – And Finally… The Italian Job – Tomato Harvest
August – Blue, Black, Rasp and StrawBerries Harvest
August – The Humble Chive Plant – How To Harvest Free Seeds for Sowing Next Year
August – Mange tout, french beans, lettuce & blackberry harvest
September – Mini Melons Harvest Themselves
September – Growing Butternut Squashes in a Large Patio Pot & Harvesting Top Tips
September – How to Harvest, Dry & Store Onions
September – Harvests
October – Harvests
November – Harvest A Leek with Me
November – Sow, Grow, Harvest, Cook Parsnips
November – And finally the Sweetcorn Harvest
December – Kale & Cauliflower Harvest
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