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 bin.

Mange tout gets picked and we have it stir-fried with noodles and other vegetables like chard or pak choi. Our mange tout plants succumbed to powdery mildew this year due to the hot and wet weather we have been having but nevertheless there was a good crop of flat pea pods.

French beans, I love growing two different colours as it adds colour. The yellow is very radiant in the vegetable garden and on the plate.

The lettuce has be amazing this year, I actually grew a romaine lettuce, I normally only get leaves. The amount of rain we have had from the sky this year has certainly made a difference to the growing of leafy vegetables.

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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 – Autumn Vegetable Harvest – Baby Pumpkins, Petty Pan Squash, Butternut Squash, Peas, Kale, Spinach and Spring Greens
• October – Harvests
• November – Harvest A Leek with Me
• November – Sow, Grow, Harvest, Cook Parsnips
• November – And finally the Sweetcorn Harvest
• December – Kale & Cauliflower Harvest