We're starting to have our first proper harvests from the garden other than herbs now.
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| Baby beats and broad beans |
I pulled some baby beats (always sounds like a DJ) and broad beans to have with dinner on Sunday. Now is normally the time when I wish I planted double the amount so I could harvest half the crop as a "baby" one as it all tastes so good!
Totally agree that young vegetables are much nicer than mature one's. Having a problem with 'bolting' crops at the moment in the veg plot. Apparently veg go to seed when temperatures reach heights that the plants can't cope with. Decided to harvest the gone to seed brassica (yellow broccoli heads) and fed to cattle. The cattle soon wolfed them down.
ReplyDeleteMy red onions always bolt. I sometimes wonder why I bother with them. Chickens deal with bolted lettuces for us and anything else we don't fancy.
DeleteGo (or don't go - addictive!) to Pinterest and on there is lots of info about best place to grow stuff and one of them is beetroot. Apparently grows better in part shaded area, less likely to bolt. Also, have you tried eating the whole of the broad bean pod with the beans inside? When the pods are young and have visibly got beans in, they are really tasty! I tried some at the weekend, delish!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Northsider daves' cattles' pee was pink after eating the beetroot and if they are dairy cattle the milk was pink lol!
Pinterest has become a bit of a vice of mine. It's like google where someone has filtered out all the rubbish. I'll have to try broad beans like that. I've been munching on my day lilly pods a lot lately - have you tried those?
DeleteWe were all set to harvest the first lettuce of the year yesterday...some greedy critter got there first and scoffed the lot!
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We've been doing well with salad. I've managed to keep the slugs away, just waiting on tomatoes to come in now!
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