Category: Harvest

  • The Best Berry for Big Harvests

    The Best Berry for Big Harvests

    I announce the best producing and best value berry you could be growing in your garden – The Loganberry. It started with one vine and now grows three vines every year bursting with dark red fruit than looks like a longer raspberry. It is incredible value for money and never disappoints with its harvest. What…

  • Cooking with Yellow Ball Courgettes – Beef & Rice

    Cooking with Yellow Ball Courgettes – Beef & Rice

    I love cooking and I admit I never follow a recipe properly. I always think it needs more of that or less of this. I’ve not always been good at cooking, when I was teenager, I used to burn everything and my mother use to say you’ll have to marry a man that can cook…

  • How To Harvest Onions & Make Your Own Drying Rack

    It’s Mid August and my Onions ‘Hercules F1’ are all huge. It’s been a fantastic growing year for not just Onions but all types of Root Vegetables. The Onion leaves are now laying flat against the soil as they have bent at the stem near the top of the bulb, which means they are ready…

  • A Colourful Harvest Palette – Tomatoes & Sweet Peppers

    A Colourful Harvest Palette – Tomatoes & Sweet Peppers

    ‘Tangerine Dream’ Sweet Pepper, you did not let me down! What a stunning bright Orange bitesized sweet pepper. Tangerine Dream Sweet Peppers grow pointing to the sky instead of hang down like long peppers. They remind me of chilli peppers. They turn from green to a light orange and then a bright orange. They are…

  • July Harvests – Peach, Blackberry, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Sweet Peppers & Cucumbers

    July Harvests – Peach, Blackberry, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Sweet Peppers & Cucumbers

    July is another month for harvests. This year I have been enjoying the fruit as well as our vegetables. I am particularly enjoying the following harvests: 1. Lettuce ‘Outrageous’ Started Harvesting: 13 July & ongoing. This lettuce is a cos type, low growing with a tight oval shaped leaves. The best thing is the colour,…

  • June Harvest – Lettuce, Radish, Broad Beans, Cucumbers, Logan Berries, Blueberries.

    June Harvest – Lettuce, Radish, Broad Beans, Cucumbers, Logan Berries, Blueberries.

    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…

  • Autumn Vegetable Harvest – Pumpkins, Petty Pan Squash, Butternut & Spring Greens.

    Autumn Vegetable Harvest – Pumpkins, Petty Pan Squash, Butternut & Spring Greens.

    I love Autumn with its leaf colour changing charms and it’s dreamy, cosy time when the blankets and gloves come out as it’s a little bit ‘nippy’ outside. Our Blueberry plants are giving us a great red leaf autumn display which looks great in the garden. It’s the first time, in my vegetable growing history,…

  • And Finally… The Italian Job – Tomato Harvest in Late August

    And Finally… The Italian Job – Tomato Harvest in Late August

    And finally the Italian beefsteak tomatoes – Variety: Costoluto Genovese have gone red. They have been in the greenhouse and due to the stems getting so heavy they fell over so they have now all been harvested. Update on the Greenhouse Growbag watering system In May, I posted – My Tomato Growing Setup about my…

  • August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, squash, courgettes, Carrots, tomatoes.

    August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, squash, courgettes, Carrots, tomatoes.

    The August vegetable harvests just keep coming week by week and they are truly colourful. There is such a variety of vegetables and fruit to pick and create some magic in the kitchen with. Garlic Butter Vegetables Last night we picked a ball courgette, baby yellow squash, tomatoes, sweetcorn and spinach. I made a garlic…

  • Let’s Grow Together – Weekly – Recipes for Vegetable Gluts

    Let’s Grow Together – Weekly – Recipes for Vegetable Gluts

    Welcome to Sow, Grow, Harvest’s weekly digital and social media great finds. I’ve been on the hunt for some great recipes to use up the vegetable harvest gluts in my vegetable garden at the moment and other recipes for vegetables I’ve not eaten before. Petty Pan (baby) Squash Recipes Oven Recipe Ginger spiced stuffed Petty…