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Today I picked lots of broad beans - enough for 4 hungry adults and two spring cabbages, mercifully slug free thanks to the SlugX slug pub and Tesco Value lager !

Today I picked my first watercress and it was suprisingly yummy!

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The greatness comes not when things go always good for you,but the greatness comes when you are really tested,when you take,some knocks,some disappointments;because only if youv'e been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

lllLovely cucumber,basil ,lettuce blackcurrants and of course eggs from the chooks!Tomatoes not red yet.

yesterday,my first 5 strawberries :-)

yesterday, My first strawberry (yum yum), a baby carrot and a beet! not enough for dinner but enough for the excitement!

Yesterday an onion and a cabbage for the inlaws. We took them to the Lottie as the last time they saw it was when I had just got it, they were very impressed as I think my MIL thought I wouldnt be able to do it.
Had cabbage and strawberries for lunch as well
Broadbeans by the bagfull cant wait for them to finish so I can plant something else they look bedraggled now as been in since last november.
Courgettws waiting to be picked OH says leave them a bit longer but they are ready now. What does he know anyway ? LOL.

On friday, OH and I had some new onions on our veggie kebabs with the BBQ. And the first 2 new potatoes - oh bliss!! (As I was a bit sick of salad, I actually only had an apple for lunch - but had been eating my own all week).

On saturday, we had more onions in kebabs and the toddler had some broad beans.

Yesterday, the toddler had some broad beans in her tea. We meant to do HFW's broad beans on toast, but forgot, at lunch (kinda skipped lunch TBH). And I forgot to bring home the only 2 raspberries that were red on the plot.

Today, the toddler is having some peas with her tea, and we are having new potatoes and steamed broad beans with some roasted chicken thighs. While I have some mangetout and lots of salad leaves in my lunchbox.

Tomorrow, we will be having a stirfry involving our own onions, cabbage (shredded), peas and broad beans, purple sprouting brocolli and cauliflower (and bought mushrooms, courgette and pepper). And another salady lunchbox.

what i harvested yesterday
a couple of broad beans
4 thumb size courgettes
handful of peas
here's the best bit though
my own garlic and onion sauteed in butter grind of salt
toss in the peas beans and courgette cook til tender
and eat with homemade chunks of bread for cleaning the plate, who says you have to travel miles for paradise and good food.

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thoughts from the head of
phil the shed.........

So far today, more strawberries (got to beat the birds) and lettuce leaves for lunch. Later I'll be picking some more mange tout for with tea.

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Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

Today (well. strictly yesterday) I dragged my poor parents (on a visit) down the lottie. Sat them on the (scruffy) chairs on the (Heath Robinson) patio-ette next to the (tiny) wildlife minipond and pick SO SO SO many delicious strawberries from our plot. We had had the forethought to bring down a jug of Pimms too.....mmmmmmmm

Life doesn't get much better......

LCG

Chuff all so far, have some tantalisingly close broad beans and my first pea pods are showing - and they're purple!!

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

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strawberries, radishes, and salad leaves yummy all nice sliced or chopped with cripsy bacon in a salad and a vinegar dressing

came back from the lottie today with 3 strawberries and 4 eggs

What strawberries with bacon

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The greatness comes not when things go always good for you,but the greatness comes when you are really tested,when you take,some knocks,some disappointments;because only if youv'e been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Too chuffin' wet to get outside to the garden so I went out and "harvested" two pairs of shoes instead

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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

2 strawbs and an onion for tonight's tea.

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Andrea :wavehello

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...logs/zazen999/

moon trials completed:
tomatoes
[46% increase in crop per seed sown and 10% increase in crop per plant]

currently underway:
calabrese
garlic

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Loads of alpine strawbs, 5 big strawbs from the greenhouse, and I just couldn't resist any longer and picked the biggest of the pea pods. It wasn't really ready for picking but boy was it nice to taste some home-grown peas for the first time in years and years and years

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

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I am eating a complete allotment dinner: beetroot, new spuds, shallots, lettuce (3 types), red onion, broadies (2 types), Adelaide carrots, radish, coriander. All seasoned with Piri Piri sauce, yum. adelaide,16.6 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Oooooh, like this thread (a chance to show off some!!!!!)
Today I picked and ate peas, broadies, cabbage and new potatos!!!!! T'was loverly, I was very proud and the poor kids weren't allowed to leave the table till their plates were clean! tee hee hee!

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Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

Only a couple of broad beans today!

My first handful of raspberries, a couple of strawberries, even more mange tout - it's growing quicker than I can pick it, but I'm not complaining.

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pjh75

We sow the seed, nature grows the seed, we eat the seed.

Picked some Nice Courgettes, Lettuce, and a handfull of strawberries. Everything is coming along well

Some baby peas, eaten raw - DELISH - most of the pods are getting too big now to eat as mangetout, but only a few have got actual peas in them, so it was lean pickings today on the pea front!

Also one big pod of broad beans, but not so nice raw - the baby ones are, but the big'uns need cooking methinks.

Took a sprig of my own peppermint to work today and sat drinking fresh peppermint tea in the office - lovely

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Warning: I have a dangerous tendency to act like I know what I'm talking about.

The only thing I have managed so far is salad leaves, nothing else ready

We are in central scotland, so temp less than where you guys are.