Tag: Harvest

  • August in the Vegetable Garden

    August in the Vegetable Garden

    It’s mid August, I haven’t planted any vegetables since the Sweetcorn in July. In the Summer months, I like to sit back and enjoy the garden, enjoy the harvests and enjoy watching the plants and wildlife flourish. All the hard work, sowing seeds and caring for plants in Spring has paid off as the vegetable…

  • July – Vegetable Garden Update – Sweetcorn, Sunflowers, Strawberries, Squash.

    July – Vegetable Garden Update – Sweetcorn, Sunflowers, Strawberries, Squash.

    The vegetable garden is in full bloom and everything is going well. Due to all the rain we have been having, there has been no need to put the watering system or use the water from the waterbutts, luckily it has all fallen from the sky so far. Here’s a picture of the vegetable garden…

  • Colourful Salad Bowl Harvest

    Colourful Salad Bowl Harvest

    The salad, herbs and roots bed is starting to bloom in shades of dark red, lime green, mid green and a mixture of both and it looks even better on your plate at dinner time or in a sandwich for work. I love this shade of dark red lettuce with its frilly leaves that forms…

  • 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…

  • Leek Flower Spike’s – Its time for Harvesting

    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…

  • Leek (Spring Onions) Harvest in Early April

    Leek (Spring Onions) Harvest in Early April

    By now in April, Leeks should have fattened up enough to start harvesting. Ours seem a little behind on the fattening up stage so we have left them in the garden and added some multipurpose compost mulch around the top of the stems in March to give them a bit of a nutrients boost. We…