what are you harvesting?

[bean gardenin']

Turnips! Over the moon, I've never grown a turnip before!

[kompost krazy]

I've got loadsa kale (Sutherland), and my french beans (Cherokee trail of tears, Soldier, and Borlotto lingua di fuoco) are coming on-stream. I've got two small green plums (oo-er missus) on my tomato plants.

[Shirl]

My kale is doing well also. This year I have planted for the first time borlotti and just starting to produce. Now, I really do have some small plums for the first time this year!!

[benner]

Broad beans, baby beetrooot, radishes, runner beans, a few pak choi, silverskin onions and a little lettuce. Quite pleased with my first years' effort. Just waiting for tomatoes to ripen now!

[Odsox]

Harvested my shallots yesterday, not a bad return for planting 15 last autumn.
These are destined to be used after Christmas as I can't keep onions for more than a few months but shallots will keep until about April. Don't know why ..

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[lilyrose]

I harvested the last of my garlic (10 bulbs). Tomorrow, I will probably harvest some broccoli for dinner.

[grahamhobbs]

Odsox, why the trouble in storing onions? Mine just about keep until the following July (red ones a month earlier) and shallots even longer. I keep them in a well ventilated greenhouse.

[Odsox]

Because of my weird climate Graham.
Onions in the garden just don't stop growing, hence they don't ripen up. It doesn't matter how many times I bend the tops over, they just straighten themselves up again, and if I half pull them up .. the re-root themselves again.
If I left them, they would still have green healthy tops in December.

This year I grew a few in the polytunnel and they seem to have ripened nicely. Only trouble is I keep using them for cooking instead of leaving them to see how long they store.

Shallots on the other hand die off of their own accord about now regardless, and so ripen up. So now I use the onions first and leave the shallots for later in the new year.

[circlecross]

was greeted by the delightful sight of three rows of rampant broad beans, like so many smooth naked circumcised winkies nodding up at me tonight. Marvellous. And more peas than even I can eat in one sitting! Blackcurrants, red goosegogs, beetroots, oriental lettuces....num num num

[citizentwiglet]

Chantenay carrots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Keaniebean]

Garlic is now all dried, cucumbers from the hanging baskets . And we just ate our firts yellow corgette finally!

[kompost krazy]

...my french beans (Cherokee trail of tears, Soldier, and Borlotto lingua di fuoco) are coming on-stream.

I don't think I'll grow 'Soldier' beans again. They grow quite large, compared with the 'Cherokee' beans, but they're not as nice, being a bit stringy and tough. The Cherokees, by contrast, are tender and delicious, and though individually smallish, the plants are very productive: I grew them last year, and had more of them than I knew what to do with at the height of their harvesting period, and they just kept on coming until the frosts. If anyone wants to try them, go to www.realseeds.co.uk. I think they are also sometimes available from the Heritage Seed Library.

My courgettes (Tondo di Picenza, a spherical variety, also from Real Seeds) are just starting to be available.

[grahamhobbs]

courgettes, cucumbers, courgettes, cucumbers, artichoke, courgettes, cucumbers, beans, courgettes, cucumbers, salad, courgettes, cucumbers, calabrese, carrots, courgettes cucumbers, tomatoes........ you get the idea.

But melons coming, now the size of tennis balls.

[phil55494]

Green curly kale, Nero di Toscano kale, Spuds, Strawberries, Raspberries, salads, Rainbow chard. We had the first floret from the summer purple sprouting broccoli yesterday.

Now will the courgettes get on with doing their thing and make us some fruits, they've not flowered yet (though the plants are from a late sowing because the first plants got slugged).

[Millymollymandy]

courgettes, cucumbers, courgettes, cucumbers, artichoke, courgettes, cucumbers, beans, courgettes, cucumbers, salad, courgettes, cucumbers, calabrese, carrots, courgettes cucumbers, tomatoes........ you get the idea.

But melons coming, now the size of tennis balls.

Ha ha yes I have a fridge full of courgettes and cucumbers!

My first melon fruit are only golf ball size so you are ahead of me but they did take absolutely ages to get going.