Still picking tomatoes, chillies, peppers, radishes, kohl rabi, pak choi, cucamelons (silly name!), salad leaves from the polytunnel.
Picked more pea beans (amazing how they came back and have kept back some for the beans for next year sowing), sprouts (even though the whites are turning the top leaves into skeletons), swiss chard and beetroot outside. Leeks still looking good as well as the chinese artichokes (a fiddle to clean but came up from ones left last year). Also harvested volunteer potatoes again today (better than the orginal crop)
This is the last of our harvest for the moment, still a couple of marrows to come but this is about it. I don’t usually have green tomatoes, but these two won’t ripen properly now, so compost for those.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Lyn I find the same, if there's a bit of yellow you can get them to ripen, especially if you put them in a paper bag with a 🍌 banana . If they are solid green though they never will .
Today's gathering, pumpkins from shed store. Lettuce and rocket still growing outside. The few Dahlias are just a top up my wife picked a basket full 2days ago.
Too small to do anything with @Allotment Boy. But I’ve had a good run, I’ve got turnips and carrots in the GH and cabbage plants not quite ready for transplanting. Lettuce in the GH which I use to feed the snails and the cucumbers had a new lease of life but not ready. I don’t t think the remaking two marrows will come to much. I’ll probably pick the soon, my snails will eat them.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I couldn't resist, I had to weigh the cabbage, 3.8 kilo. Decided to have another go at sauerkraut, we only needed 2/3 of it to fill the jar will just cook the rest.🙂
Really did pick the last peabeans today. Swiss chard wanting to escape but still able to harvest enough for many meals. The sprouts (against the whites!!) are doing really well and have had more and put some in the frezzer for Christmas. Still got beetroot and chinese artichokes to harvest. Leeks will last a lot longer.
I've not visited my greenhouse for a week or so. Last time I looked there was a load of peppers still green and a few green chillies. Went down there just now and -
For me it's been the best year ever for peppers and chillies. I've got a about 2Kg peppers in the freezer already, so will give those above to the neighbours.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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Today's gathering, pumpkins from shed store. Lettuce and rocket still growing outside. The few Dahlias are just a top up my wife picked a basket full 2days ago.
Lettuce in the GH which I use to feed the snails and the cucumbers had a new lease of life but not ready.
I don’t t think the remaking two marrows will come to much. I’ll probably pick the soon, my snails will eat them.
My dad always said not to dig parsnips until the frosts began.
Last time I looked there was a load of peppers still green and a few green chillies.
Went down there just now and -
For me it's been the best year ever for peppers and chillies.
I've got a about 2Kg peppers in the freezer already, so will give those above to the neighbours.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.