Seventeen and a half pounds of raspberries picked so far. Some in the freezer, some given away, mostly eaten for breakfast with porridge. I have just finished picking over two blackcurrant bushes, seven pounds of blackcurrants in the freezer for winter porridge.
The first potato (Sarpo Una) I dug up last week had three large potatoes and quite a lot of little ones. Only a pound and a half, but it did two meals. The leftovers that wentt in bags at mums a week later than I planted mine in the ground aren't ready yet, we had a feel down the side of the bags, only tiddlers there yet.
We've had a couple of boilings of french beans, and some kale now that they are netted against the deer doe that took a fancy to them. Onions are starting to swell up.
Seventeen and a half pounds of raspberries picked so far. Some in the freezer, some given away, mostly eaten for breakfast with porridge. I have just finished picking over two blackcurrant bushes, seven pounds of blackcurrants in the freezer for winter porridge.
The first potato (Sarpo Una) I dug up last week had three large potatoes and quite a lot of little ones. Only a pound and a half, but it did two meals. The leftovers that wentt in bags at mums a week later than I planted mine in the ground aren't ready yet, we had a feel down the side of the bags, only tiddlers there yet.
We've had a couple of boilings of french beans, and some kale now that they are netted against the deer doe that took a fancy to them. Onions are starting to swell up.
I'm not in the least bit jealous of the raspberries, we've had a total of wait for it, half a raspberry from the new canes I put in this spring. I'm just hoping what others have said that they are busy forming roots is true!
Well, three canes of Polka raspberries I gave mum are producing plenty. You can double crop Polka. If you shear them to the ground in February, you get Autumn raspberries. If those canes or some of them are tipped by taking off the end that fruited off, they send out side shoots that fruit heavily in June, but then you remove that double fruited cane in July, leaving new canes to fruit in Autumn.
While I dream of future raspberries.. ..courgettes from today were handed to the family chef (my son Harvey) for conversion into din-dins. Smells lovely.
Fantastic to see and hear the fruits (and veg) of everyone's hard work! That's they way to get kids into food and gardening! My city boy husband helped with harvesting the potatoes and he was delighted with each nugget of 'treasure ' we unearthed This is from one little planter.
I also have had a very lucky find recently. I'm a self employed gardener and one of my customers had a neglected asparagus bed growing though her hedge. It had been there for 40 years reproducing new plants each time the original died. All without care and water! She wanted it gone!!! Obviously I was on my belly under the yew hedge getting scratched to bits to retrieve the asparagus! Two weeks later and my lawn is ever decreasing in size as strips of it keep getting lifted to add another row of asparagus! It's all growing wonderfully!!
I'm steadily harvesting now. Early potatoes done, and main crop just about ready to check. Mini cucumbers 6 from my one plant, and the Alicante tomatoes are ripening ( they are quite big this year) still pulling spring onions and carrots. Have planted new little gem lettuce as first lot had gone over, but they are little plants, so won't be long before the outer leaves will be ready. Still waiting for the autumn raspberries to fruit, they seem a little late this year, as usually start picking when the strawberries finish.
Very limited out here as I have no cover, and a difficult climate in an exposed situation. But peas and broad beans and any green leafy things eg kale do very well. Potatoes under hay and in containers as I cannot dig. And herbs.
I was going to sack my courgettes - they had given a fair crop and leaves going a bit yellow, but I cut those leaves off and fed and a second flush of growth and ‘fruits’ are coming.
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That's they way to get kids into food and gardening!
My city boy husband helped with harvesting the potatoes and he was delighted with each nugget of 'treasure ' we unearthed
This is from one little planter.
I also have had a very lucky find recently.
I'm a self employed gardener and one of my customers had a neglected asparagus bed growing though her hedge. It had been there for 40 years reproducing new plants each time the original died. All without care and water! She wanted it gone!!!
Obviously I was on my belly under the yew hedge getting scratched to bits to retrieve the asparagus!
Two weeks later and my lawn is ever decreasing in size as strips of it keep getting lifted to add another row of asparagus! It's all growing wonderfully!!