I know I am an old pedant but up to now I have regarded what I have gathered as seasonal cropping. Below is the beginning of harvest, like others we have already made soup to freeze and frozen beans etc but now it begins in earnest. I have been away a week the picture below is a fraction of what I will gather over the next week or two. In the crate in the barrow are windfall apples and pears. The bottom of the bucket has broccoli and cauliflower as well a a few of the outdoor tomatoes.
Most of the trug has French beans with the smaller courgettes ando cucumbers in it. One of my plot neighbours was watering for me while away I told them to take courgettes, cucumbers and some toms , but they obviously left most unpicked. I will give them some tomorrow, as they are new and didn't grow their own yet.
@Allotment Boy we go with your feelings. 2 years ago we bought another small frezzer to help with the veg/fruit produce. This is on top of me doing chutneys/pickles/jams etc etc. It is so good to be able to continue to have your own produce throughout the year.
And we have also given "christmas" hampers of our home ground produce to family and friends.
I know I am an old pedant but up to now I have regarded what I have gathered as seasonal cropping. Below is the beginning of harvest, like others we have already made soup to freeze and frozen beans etc but now it begins in earnest. I have been away a week the picture below is a fraction of what I will gather over the next week or two. In the crate in the barrow are windfall apples and pears. The bottom of the bucket has broccoli and cauliflower as well a a few of the outdoor tomatoes.
Most of the trug has French beans with the smaller courgettes ando cucumbers in it. One of my plot neighbours was watering for me while away I told them to take courgettes, cucumbers and some toms , but they obviously left most unpicked. I will give them some tomorrow, as they are new and didn't grow their own yet.
Looks good, unfortunately my runner beans during and after the hot spell wanted to go to seed bulking out and very short. Any reason apart from it was hot ?
@detsnpowder, you're not alone in that situation, many of my beans are the same and I lost all my flowers during the first heatwave, they've recovered but not cropping as heavy as normal. I think the plants just get stressed, even when well watered, and send the signal to set seed, it's definitely been a challenge this year but overall I'm grateful for what we've harvested so far.
This is the earliest I can remember picking enough runner beans for a meal 😀 Variety ‘Moonlight’. a self-pollinating runner French bean hybrid with a real runnerbean flavour. This is the third year I’ve grown them.
I posted that on 3rd July … we’ve filled the freezer and I’m still picking …
… 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Most of the trug has French beans with the smaller courgettes ando cucumbers in it. One of my plot neighbours was watering for me while away I told them to take courgettes, cucumbers and some toms , but they obviously left most unpicked. I will give them some tomorrow, as they are new and didn't grow their own yet.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Marrows and cucumbers nearly ready.