Monday harvest
This week's harvest has been comprised of beginnings and endings. Some fruit is coming to the end of its cropping and some is just beginning. Some isn't quite ready for picking - like the apples that we tried which were still slightly too tart.
We picked our last cauliflower which was just beginning to blow but on the other hand we also picked the first of our long awaited climbing French beans - Cobra and runner beans - Desiree.
Tuesday's harvest
We pulled more of the autumn planted onions - it will soon be time to plant this season's sets and also to lift the summer planted onions for storing.
More potatoes were dug which considering our carrot problems were surprisingly free of any damage.
We also cut our first lot of gladioli.
The summer fruiting raspberries have just about finished fruiting but the autumn fruiting varieties - the yellow All Gold and red Joan J - are now coming into their own.
The thornless blackberry Loch Ness is also ripening. There are plenty of berries to be picked painlessly and if we need more I can send Martyn to pick some of the wild ones elsewhere on the plot - only because I am not tall enough to reach the choicest berries of course.
Saturday's harvest
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Beautiful harvest! I just love your glads. I need to plant some next year---I always forget just how pretty they are.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful week in the garden.
These were planted last year and just left in the ground Sue
DeleteWonderful harvests, Sue. I like the sound of that thornless blackberry as well. What do you do with all your veg? Does it get frozen?
ReplyDeleteWe freeze a lot of fruit and veg Caro
DeleteA plentiful harvest. Those berries are mouthwatering! I must check to see if the wild ones growing near here are ripe. A job for the weekend.
ReplyDeleteOuch - make sure you cover up well Angie, The thornless do seem a bit earlier usually.
DeleteAll looking plentiful indeed. The sweet peas are stunning ~ I can smell them from here. Wonder if a cultivated blackberry would do good here? I have wild ones a~plenty, but they come with thorns.
ReplyDeleteI don't see why you couldn't grow a cultivated blackberry Debs but make sure that you choose a thornless variety
DeleteWhat a great looking harvest and lovely flowers too. The red berries look yummy. I did a bit of foraging for bilberries today (wild blueberries).
ReplyDeleteI have never picked bilberries Kelli but they do grow uo in the moors fairly nearby, Our greengrocer had some recently
DeleteAs always you have the best berries. I only dream of berry harvests like that.
ReplyDeleteBerries are so expensive in the shops Daphne and sold in such small amounts that they are well worth growing and keep us supplied all year,
DeleteAnother bountiful harvest, the fruit does look lovely. What a LOT of potatoes!xxx
ReplyDeletePlenty more potatoes to come, Dina - we hope
DeleteGreat harvests. It's really strange to see how two parts of Europe can have so different harvests. Most of your beginnings are ending in my garden. Blackberries are done and raspberries are now ripening for the second time.
ReplyDeleteAre the raspberries fruiting a second time on the same canes Leanan?
DeleteWonderful harvests! Are your blackberries truly thornless? I planted a "thornless" variety this spring, but it does seem to still have thorns - I have heard how horrible standard varieties are and just assumed that "thornless" meant that the thorns were not as bad as those.
ReplyDeleteOurs is completely thornless Margaret totally smooth stems.
DeleteThat'e very good harvest of berries! Almost all are in red colour! I wish I could grow berries like you do!
ReplyDeleteRed to attract the birds Malar :-(
DeleteWe haven't harvested any beans yet, we should get the first very soon though. My tomatoes are in full production now, ripening by the day. I think it's going to be a good year for them, the plants are absolutely loaded with fruit. How is your Cucina comparing with Mini Munch? I've grown them once but I only got a few cucumbers from each plant before production ceased.
ReplyDeleteWe're finding that they are more or less the same, Jo in taste and production, Are your tomatoes outdoors?
DeleteI'm going to try Mini munch next year. I've started harvesting a few beans too but I've only had one courgette. I am probably the only person who has had only one courgette! x
ReplyDeleteOurs are producing a steady supply rather than a glut, Jo - be careful what you wish for :)
DeleteDon't know why this published as Anon it was me
DeleteOh no, blackberries already! The end of summer must be nigh! Woe woe and thrice woe!!
ReplyDeleteYour harvest looks fantastic, Sue, what could be better than all that gorgeous fresh fruit and veg.My grandad used to arrange the week's produce in his wheelbarrow, then wheel it all round to the kitchen door to present it to my grandma, to use in the Sunday lunch!
Shame you have been caught by tomato blight , hopefully there will be new blight resistant varieties to grow soon.
This variety of blackberry is usually earlier than the wild one, Jane so maybe just twice woe,
DeleteNo blight here yet this year which is unusual maybe I misled you sorry
Wonderful harvest Sue!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lisa
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