what are you harvesting?

[grahamhobbs]

Try planting nasturiums nearby, they divert blackfly and cabbage white butterflies away from other plants. They are not 100% but they do make a big difference.

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picked all our butter beans and borlotti at the weekend. French beans have finally finished, runner beans coming in. Still lots of courgettes, and sweetcorn.
Picked my pumpkins and squashes as it feels like a frost is not far away.

[Millymollymandy]

Had my first rocket the other day, it has been very slow to grow, in fact basically nothing I've sown in August has grown much which is extremely odd, other than the radishes, but even so we are only just eating the first radishes sown a month ago.

Harvested first salsify last night. Yum!

All the pumpkinny things are now indoors on windowsills and luckily today I managed to give away 4 butternuts, as I got 22 from just 2 plants.

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ack
i just cant grow butternut.. ive given up. grew crown prince ok tho :)

[chilitony]

i've got one butternut quash, its massive but still green.
apart from that , getting back to the original quastion where do i start i'm harvesting: tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, spring onions, beetroot, new potatoes still, radishes, chillies, sweet peppers, aubergines, runner beans, french beans (blauhilde & speedy), courgettes, squashes (sweet lightening, green hokkaido & potimarron), pumpkins, carrots, parsnips, turnips, primo & red cabbage, herbs (chives, tyme, sage, rosemary,dill, mint, taragon, oregano, parsley, fennel & basil) rhubarb, raspberrys, blackberrys, grapes, apples & pears.
Tony

[kompost krazy]

Harvested my first three toms the other day: one smallish 'purple Ukrain', and two 'Tigerella'. Some of my plants have got blight, but it hasn't reached the fruit yet, and I think I've stopped it in its tracks for now with a heavy spraying with Bordeaux mixture. Hopefully, I can harvest all the toms before the blight gets to them. The Purple Ukraines are all badly split, no doubt due to the soaking summer, but none of the others are. The others are 'Costoluto Fiorentino', 'Tigerella', and 'Golden Sunrise'. Presumably P.U. is particularly prone to splitting.

My toms did eventually succombe to blight, even the greenhouse ones, but I did manage to harvest a reasonable amount of fruit first, some of which was eaten fresh in salads, some cooked with, and some chutneyed with other ingredients.

[Darroch]

it's early spring here so I'm just planting out stuff, but we are harvesting globe artichokes, asparagus, the last of the brussell sprouts, and lots of herbs. In a couple more months we'll hopefully be over run with veg.

[Millymollymandy]

I'm still harvesting - lettuce, french beans (last of), beetroot, tomatoes, spring onions, loads of coriander and dill self seeding all over the place still, fruit galore including raspberries that just won't stop and have some veg for winter and next spring (parsnips, salsify, leeks, a few curly kale and PSB).

The only thing that looks rather pathetic is the celery but I think I will blanch it anyway as it's way too bitter to use as it is, so if the spindly stems become edible I can chuck them in a casserole or soup.

[Odsox]

Still got, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, cereriac, mange tout peas, carrots, beetroot, pak choi, turnips, parsnips, leeks, Savoy cabbages, sprouts green & red, cauliflowers, butternut & potimarron squash, courgettes, French beans, borlotto beans and runner beans coming out of my ears.
Picked the last few sweetcorn cobs yesterday and there are still a few late apples (Egremont russet) as well as continuing raspberries.

BUT one of my favourites is just about ready ... myrtles, I have a huge crop this year and will definitely have to bottle a load and it's still blooming , so will continue to fruit until at least January.

[grahamhobbs]

We're similar to Odsox, although I think we are almost over with the courgette, cucumber and runner beans, and we don't attempt celery (too dry in London), but celeriac does ok. Also still waiting for cauliflowers to suddenly appear ( we only grow the occaisional cauliflower because they take up so much space).

Tried growing butter beans for the first time this year and hoping good weather continues because although some pods are full there are a lot that that haven't filled yet and it is still flowering. They have produced masses of growth and flowers but they seem very slow, in comparison to runner beans, in setting and filling with beans.

Couple of things we do grow this time of year are Mizuna, Lambs lettuce (Marche in french, and is how we first learnt about it, picking it growing wild amoungst the stubble in the fields in France) and Land or american cress. All are extremely easy, in fact they are mainly self sown, and last all winter. They are now essential veg for us this time of year.

[cafe_tom]

Had a good crop of chilis in the home built greenhouse this year, so they're coming in and adding flavour to the pickled eggs, as well as making their own chutney. Still got some tomatoes and got some aubergines as well, purple cabbage I can't remember the name of, and the loganberries are on their second fruiting this year. Last of the French beans last weekend. Making the greenhouse was the best thing I did.

[Susiwaa]

Hi!

Still got some carrots in the ground but not holding much hope for them growing to anything substantial.

Chili plants are still producing, but they're on the windowsill so are probably a bit confused! Right fiery wee beasties too. No idea what variety they are.

The squash that was growing in the kitchen has got damaged (I suspect a not-so-gentle teenager) so it's been written off to experience!

Och well, learn as we go!

[bonniethomas06]

Harvested first salsify last night. Yum!

All the pumpkinny things are now indoors on windowsills and luckily today I managed to give away 4 butternuts, as I got 22 from just 2 plants.

Oww Lucky you MMM, I grew about 3 last year on the compost bin, which were small but OK. This year I planted loads of plants, but bloody OH accidently strimmed off the tiny butternuts this year when cutting the grass! GRrrrrrrr

So all we have in the squash bed now is 2 spaghetti (do you have to wait for them to go orange?) and one beautiful blue squash which I grew from a saved seed.

On another note, is anyone growing mizuna for winter veg, and if so, have you sown it yet?

[Odsox]

I managed to give away 4 butternuts, as I got 22 from just 2 plants.

You did better than me cos I only got 20, or I will have when I harvest the last 4 ... but that was from 4 plants so under half your crop.
BUT, my weird snaky ones and the regular ones are nowhere near as sweet as previous years, in fact at the moment I would be hard pressed to distinguish them from potimarron when roasted.
Tough luck for friends who were going to get most of them, cos unless they sweeten up rapidly, I think we'll eat the lot ... and the 10.5* potimarrons as well

* one potimarron is still growing and filling out

[Millymollymandy]

That's good for you Tony! We're still struggling to get thru the first medium sized potimarron, have had some roasted with a roast and then a spud and pumpkin curry, still got half of it in the fridge though! So I'm happier to get small ones although one is the size of a football.

And Bonnie I hope you have your OH what for!