Tag: Harvest

  • 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…

  • Yellow, Orange, Red – Colour Changing Sweet Rams Horn Peppers

    Yellow, Orange, Red – Colour Changing Sweet Rams Horn Peppers

    The 6 months care and attention needed to look after the Sweet Peppers is finally paying off and they are rewarding plants by giving a fantastic colour change display from yellow to orange to deep red. The Sweet Peppers I’m growing this year were started off in a seed tray indoors sown in February. Sweet…

  • 1 Courgette, 2 Courgette, 3 Courgette and more..

    1 Courgette, 2 Courgette, 3 Courgette and more..

    It’s certainly been a bumper year for courgettes, I thought I’d never say this but when do they stop?! I thought that 3 ball courgettes per plant on two plants were just enough to deal with, my husband decided to give the plants a feed with Tomato-rite and two weeks later, we have more to…

  • August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, strawberries, Baby squash, ball courgettes, Carrots, French beans, spinach, tomatoes.

    August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, strawberries, Baby squash, ball courgettes, Carrots, French beans, spinach, 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…

  • 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…

  • Musselburgh Leek Harvest in February

    Musselburgh Leek Harvest in February

    Back in August 2022, we planted our Leek plug plants out into our new raised beds. We have been harvesting the smaller leeks from December and then the ground was frozen so it has been difficult to harvest anything. It’s now February and I’m thinking ahead to Spring thinking we are going to need the…

  • Happy New Year! Happy New Plot

    Happy New Year! Happy New Plot

    Wishing you all a Happy New year and a happy new set of vegetables and harvests this year! Happy Birthday to my blog – Sow, Grow and Harvest it is two years old this month! I started writing about my adventures in growing vegetables two years ago (I don’t know where the time goes) as…

  • And Finally we have Sweetcorn to Harvest

    And Finally we have Sweetcorn to Harvest

    If you are a regular to my blog, you may have read my Sweetcorn – Try, Try Again post. We didn’t have much success growing sweetcorn the last time we tried. This year, with the new vegetable garden we put in late in the year, we had no choice but to buy plug plants to…

  • Red, Yellow, Orange and Green Tomatoes are here

    The tomato plants were slow to get growing this year and never really reached a great height but finally the red tomatoes are here. We are growing a few different varieties this year but the Crimson Crush F1 which are blight resistant tomatoes have come through as a clear winner on the size of the…

  • Leek Flower Spike’s – Its time for Harvesting

    Last week the flower spikes had arrived on our Leeks, really they should have all been harvested by the end of March but as our weather has been a month behind I had left them in the ground and forgotten about them. When the flower spikes appear on leeks, it means your leeks will get…