Category: Harvest

  • July Harvest – Beans, Carrots, Kohl Rabi and first tomatoes

    July Harvest – Beans, Carrots, Kohl Rabi and first tomatoes

    Our vegetable harvests are weekly and our strawberries and blueberries are being picked daily. It’s Mid July and we are harvesting: Broccoli – Kabuki F1 The Broccoli has done really well since we have received lots of rain. It has been in a cage with environmesh netting since the end of May but only really…

  • June Vegetable Harvest – Lettuce, Peas, Radish and Baby Cucumbers.

    June Vegetable Harvest – Lettuce, Peas, Radish and Baby Cucumbers.

    It’s the third week in June, the UK has reached nearly 30 degrees centigrade for the first time this year and we are overrun with Lettuce. This year is a good year for Lettuce! Lettuce, lettuce and more lettuce We have 6 fully grown romaine lettuces plus some loose leaf lettuce and it’s lettuce for…

  • Lettuce and Pak Choi Harvest in Late May and Early June

    Lettuce and Pak Choi Harvest in Late May and Early June

    This year has been a successful year for Green Lettuce and a poor year for red Lettuce as only one seed germinated. I sowed 3 types of lettuce this year, a romaine green lettuce, a red lettuce and a light green loose leaf lettuce – Black Seeded Simpson. This is the first time I’ve had…

  • Mange tout, french beans, lettuce & blackberry harvest

    Mange tout, french beans, lettuce & blackberry harvest

    August is prime harvest time. The salad crops like lettuce and spinach need to be picked regularly otherwise with the rising heat, they will normally bolt and start flowering. Some of my lettuce has already started doing this. I’ll pick the decent leaves and get rid of the rest of the plant into the compost…

  • Blue, Black, Rasp and StrawBerries Harvest

    Blue, Black, Rasp and StrawBerries Harvest

    The new fruit plants – 2 blueberries bushes, 1 blackberry bush, 5 summer fruiting raspberry canes and 2nd strawberry plants have all performed extremely well this year with regular harvests from Early July (we are in the UK). If anyone is thinking of getting some berry bushes or fruit canes, do it, you won’t regret…

  • Spinach Leaves and Strawberries Harvest

    Spinach Leaves and Strawberries Harvest

    We always grow Perpetual Spinach in our vegetable garden because it performs very well, time and time again, year on year. Perpetual Spinach is better than normal spinach because If you are reading this thinking I might give this spinach ago, there’s still time to sow Perpetual Spinach over winter in September or October for…

  • How to Harvest & Cook Cauliflower Romanesco

    How to Harvest & Cook Cauliflower Romanesco

    I am quite excited to say I have harvested my Cauliflower- Romanesco today, my 3 little gems of goodness have been growing away merrily since Late August but with all the rain we have had, two have gone a mouldy shade of grey on top of the spirals. I still harvested them and cut around…