What are you harvesting?

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jansman
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What are you harvesting?

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There are a lot of gardeners here,so what are you harvesting right now?
It can be a thin time of year,but with planning you can get a few pickings.

We are getting sprouting broccoli ( surely one of the best things from a garden?),spring cabbage, spring onion,welsh onion, perpetual spinach.From the tunnel we have radish ,lettuce and some marble sized new spuds! We managed to get enough for two of us from five plants.That has given us room to get the chilli plants in.

Any of you getting much from your gardens and allotments?
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Rhubarb and some spinach, that's it at the moment.
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Brambles wrote:Rhubarb and some spinach, that's it at the moment.
Of course,we could include what we preserved last year too.Which of course,traditionally got us through the 'Hungry Gap'.
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jansman wrote:
Brambles wrote:Rhubarb and some spinach, that's it at the moment.
Of course,we could include what we preserved last year too.Which of course,traditionally got us through the 'Hungry Gap'.
As we moved last summer, we had no harvest from the old allotment and I didn't get this one til October we have been without home grown for two years now! It's been awful I'm so looking forward to the harvest this year. What I'm picking at the moment is what the last tenant left.
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Brambles wrote:
jansman wrote:
Brambles wrote:Rhubarb and some spinach, that's it at the moment.
Of course,we could include what we preserved last year too.Which of course,traditionally got us through the 'Hungry Gap'.
As we moved last summer, we had no harvest from the old allotment and I didn't get this one til October we have been without home grown for two years now! It's been awful I'm so looking forward to the harvest this year. What I'm picking at the moment is what the last tenant left.
Moving is tough on gardening plans.So this year then,its full on factory farming for Brambles ?
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Dam straight! I've even got some planters going on the patio filled with mangetout, salad stuff and spinach :D I was given a growbag so a couple of summer squash are going in that and the allotment is well on the way to being full. If I have everything planned right all I'll need to buy is a few spuds, carrots and the odd bit of salad. :)
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Brambles wrote:Dam straight! I've even got some planters going on the patio filled with mangetout, salad stuff and spinach :D I was given a growbag so a couple of summer squash are going in that and the allotment is well on the way to being full. If I have everything planned right all I'll need to buy is a few spuds, carrots and the odd bit of salad. :)
That's what I like to hear!
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Rhubarb, chives and eggs - better than nothing!
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Just rhubarb for me at the moment
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Waaaaah!!!! My rhubarb that I planted 3 years ago is still puny, limp and unharvestable :cry: Going to have to wait another year. Time to get lots more horse poo...!!!
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