The tomatoes are ripening well now but it is the cherry ones that are providing the harvest and the larger varieties staying resolutely green.
We continue to enjoy fresh salad leaves and mini cucumbers although this week the leaves have come from lettuces grown on the plot.
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Wednesday's harvest
It's the time of year when you have to take care when picking fruit as the wasps are homing in on any signs of ripeness. Plums are a particular favourite. They will also soon move in on the apples. We inherited a row of cordon apples with the plot and can only guess at the varieties. We think that the ones that we are picking at the moment are Discovery.
 
We are now picking autumn raspberries which have merged with the summer fruiters to provide a seamless raspberry harvest. Joan J always provides us with a good crop despite she and I being in constant battle with bindweed. The yellow All Gold tries to complete but the berries are soon damaged by wind and rain.
After a poor start the runner and Cobra French beans are providing a good supply of beans. The yellow and purple beans are slower to get going.
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A bountiful harvest indeed! The crows are getting my apples, then the wasps are next in line. What to do with under~ripe apples? Although I've not been able to grow anything this year, my neighbour sold me a huge bag of assorted vegetables on Saturday so I'm getting the next best thing. I made a lovely summer stew, and I'll be sharing the recipe suggestion mid week, so keep an eye out as you might like to try it.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you do to preserve all your tomatoes?
The wasps are now at the greengage which I am unhappy about as I lobe greengages. Look forward to the stew recipe, Debs
DeleteOh my goodness, what a delicious harvest! Those apples and grapes look delicious, my fruit is doing much better than my flowers this year! Your sunflowers are looking very jolly indeed, mine are lagging behind, at least we won't have to do much watering this week!!
ReplyDeleteWelcome Katie, I reallt like the mini sunflowers and so do the bees
DeleteYour raspberries look so good. And the blackberries--my goodness, they are big!! Those would not have made it to the house around here!!
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The bonus is that no thorns mean no scratches when picking, Sue
DeleteI taste tested an apple this morning (Worcester Pearmain) and it was pretty much ready. Yours look delicious, whatever variety they are. My beans are doing well, I think some of them might be Cobra, and also some Blue Lake, a new variety to me, but very prolific. My raspberries have done really badly, do you know if the plants should be replaced from time to time? I think the canes must be six or seven years old now. They are Glen Ample (and three Autumn Bliss, which only ever did well in the really wet summer a while back). I'd definitely consider Joan J next time, I've heard good things about them.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could try digging up a root of raspberries teasing out some healthy new shoots and replanting in a new posjtion CJ That worked for us with Joan J, I aj assuming that you have been cutting out canes of Glen Ample ever year after fruiting ahd cutting fruited canes of Autumn Bliss dowb ti the ground each spring. I think Autumn Bliss is a parent of Joan J
DeleteI have wasps by the apple trees they haven't found their way to the plum tree yet! Both will be picked this weekend for a spot of jam making hopefully. My tomatoes are the same the smaller cherry ones are ripening quickly but the bigger ones are still green x
ReplyDeleteThey have now found the greengages Jo :(
DeleteDid you say "rain"? That's unusual for you, isn't it?! I wonder if you will get a decent crop from your yellow beans. I always find them disappointing. My Kew Blue purple beans are going Great Guns though - a very satisfying yield. I wish I had some Cobra though. I'll be back to them again next year.
ReplyDeleteYes rain and heavy rain at that Mark and more tonight, We picked some Cosse Violette today. No Cobra and we grew them at first because you liked then so much,
DeleteLovely harvests. I love that photo with the bean trellis in the back and the sunflowers in the front. It is just perfect.
ReplyDeleteGlad that you liked it Daphne
DeleteSome great results and lots of nice looking fruit. The vase with the sweetpea... I can almost smell it! The sunflower border is lovely too.
ReplyDeleteI just wish that the sweetpeas had longer stems,Kelli
DeleteThe cherry tomatoes and the yellow pear tomatoes are starting to ripen - finally!
ReplyDeleteWe usually seem to have a wait Daisy but we tend to plant later than many people
DeleteBeautiful harvests. Lucky you to inherit some apple trees - the apples look beautiful & I'm sure they were delicious, even if not fully ripe. it will be a long wait until we get our first apples.
ReplyDeleteThe reason that we took the plot was that there were apples, red and blackcurrants somewhere in the head high weeds, Margaret. The blackcurrants are long gone but the reds and apples still provide loads of fruit.
DeleteI think your apple is definitely Discovery. They look dead ringers for those fruiting in Cathi's garden at the moment. (Mind you that was a guess too)
ReplyDeleteCobra is a fantastic variety of french bean, huge and succulent. I have a prejudice that restaurants always cook french beans too little - I hate beans that I call 'squeaky'. We steam them as long as the young carrots.
We have been eating Cobra for two months now out of the unheated greenhouse and the ones outside are now taking over.
I like the confirmation that two guesses make a definite Roger
DeleteLovely harvest, Sue! I like your fruit patches. This season, only vermilion cherry, bilimbi and lemon that get fruiting so bountiful.
ReplyDeleteOur fruiting season is short Endah so we have to make the most of it
DeleteYour produce is an inspiration to others considering an allotment or growing veg and fruit in home gardens :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you Shirley
DeleteNow that's what I would call a rainbow harvest!
ReplyDeleteUnlike a rainbow Mal it came before the rain
DeleteI've been running the gauntlet of wasps on the plum trees too! Your harvests are looking fabulous, as usual, you really should write re growing your own, I'm sure the papers would snap you up!
ReplyDeleteI am jealous of those tomatoes, I have two turning yellow....one fine day I may get me a ripe one!xxx
I di have my website Dina that I write for when the urge is upon me I use to guest write for a blog once a month but I didn't like having a regular commitment or an editor changing my writing
DeleteExcellent harvest! The fruits and tomatoes looks juicy!
ReplyDeleteThey were Malar
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