What are you havesting
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Oh what a bugger Mike, I do hope you mend as quick as possible.
It's a shame I don't live closer or I could at least nip round and dig some of your weeds.
It's a shame I don't live closer or I could at least nip round and dig some of your weeds.
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Mike---I hope your arm heals up quickly! Just consider it a "rest" summer,....
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But don't worry, I've left some for the bees:
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Re: What are you havesting
Harvesting? Squillions of raspberries, a few strawberries, very few peas (very bad year), broad beans, a little salad stuff, shallots and garlic out early due to the weather.
Not a good year but everyone seems to be in the same boat.
Not a good year but everyone seems to be in the same boat.
Re: What are you havesting
Got lots of rasps and blackcurrants tonight. And lifted my garlic which I think could be my best crop yet, despite some of it rotting off.. Oh and a cabbage - the brassicas seem to have decided to grow
the birds have had the cherries and the redcurrants (again), lol
Woohoo, am very excited

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Blister Beetles, sunburn, frazzled nerves, and yes, finally tears. It was 106 here AGAIN today, my yard smells like year-old hay and the damned grass is so stiff it's poking up through the soles of my crocs. DH checked the garden at 2:00 this afternoon, and everything was slightly wilty but otherwise fine. I went out at 6:00 and the Beetles had exfoliated the entire melon patch and were advancing toward the tomatoes.
So, an hour and a half later, sweat was pouring off me, I smelled like a lathered Clydesdale, and there's 3 milion dead Blister Beetles, but I think I have saved my tomatoes....so that the drought can have them. I think I'm gonna give up.
edit--sorry for the rant, but I think I've about hit my limit.
So, an hour and a half later, sweat was pouring off me, I smelled like a lathered Clydesdale, and there's 3 milion dead Blister Beetles, but I think I have saved my tomatoes....so that the drought can have them. I think I'm gonna give up.

edit--sorry for the rant, but I think I've about hit my limit.
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Re: What are you havesting
Various salad leaves, radishes, nearly the last of the broad beans, courgettes, and the first of the tomatoes.
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Re: What are you havesting
Various lettus, cucumber, cherry toms and big toms, peppers, potatoes, yellow and green courgettes ( very productive ), onions/leeks/garlic, various herbs....
Peaches, plums, raspberries, wee early apples and pears......
The strawberries are finnished now, as are the cherries and sour cherries.
Peaches, plums, raspberries, wee early apples and pears......
The strawberries are finnished now, as are the cherries and sour cherries.
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Re: What are you havesting
just pick 45 kg wild yellow plums
from my garden
peas
runner beans yellow flat beans
and stillmore spinage
from my garden
peas
runner beans yellow flat beans
and stillmore spinage
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Re: What are you havesting
Lettuce, first of the tomatoes in the polytunnel, spring onions, potatoes (Red Duke of York and Orla), courgettes (though after the first flush the plants seem to have died down a bit), broad beans, kale and my clearly confused PSB which isn't supposed to be cropping until January! The few peas we have get eaten in situ, they never make it home.
Please. Nobody mention carrots. I shall cry.
Please. Nobody mention carrots. I shall cry.
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Tomatoes!!! And slugs. That is all.
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I harvested my first courgettes yesterday on the same day as my first big red tomato. That has to be a record. 

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Re: What are you havesting
Thus far
From the tunnel
Salad leaves
Mizuna
Turnips
Courgettes
Mangetout
Nasturtiums
Red mustard (still!)
Strawberries (all finished now
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1 tiny pepper that fell of the plant
1 tiny aubergine - ditto
1 green beef tomato that had started to rot - on the vine!
Carrots
Cucumbers - little ones
Broccoli raab
From the garden
Spinach
Radishes
Courgettes
Mibuna
Buckshorn plantain
Garlic
From the tunnel
Salad leaves
Mizuna
Turnips

Courgettes
Mangetout
Nasturtiums
Red mustard (still!)
Strawberries (all finished now

1 tiny pepper that fell of the plant
1 tiny aubergine - ditto
1 green beef tomato that had started to rot - on the vine!
Carrots
Cucumbers - little ones
Broccoli raab
From the garden
Spinach
Radishes
Courgettes
Mibuna
Buckshorn plantain
Garlic
Maggie
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Re: What are you havesting
Is the sicky face for the Mizuna or the turnips?
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Turnips! (that wasn't a personal comment although I'm thinking of adopting it as a term of abuse.citizentwiglet wrote:Is the sicky face for the Mizuna or the turnips?

The list does look quite impressive - I read it out to OH to see if I'd missed anything and he had a huge grin. The polytunnel is fab - considering we didn't build it until March I'm surprised we got anything really.
We haven't had huge amounts of anything though - need to get the succession planting sorted - it might be a lean winter, except for mustard greens!

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