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Old 15-06-2008, 04:09 AM
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Default Today I Are Mostly Harvested....!

May I bring this particular thread back to the forum?, because I enjoyed it SO very much previously, and it was, and is, a thread started by Two Sheds, who invented it.

What have you grown that you have harvested and have put on your plate today to eat?

It's as brilliant, and as simple as that.... and all you have to do is tell us all......

So:

Today, Wellie and Trousers picked loads of fresh leaves for salad for dinner with new local lottie friends who came for dinner tonight AND just enough ripe Strawberries to soak in Calvados for pudding.

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Old 15-06-2008, 07:57 AM
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Picked some mint for dinner
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Old 15-06-2008, 08:16 AM
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This morning i've picked broad beans, peas, Strawberries and dug some new potatoes, just got to wait until dinner time now to enjoy them.
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Old 15-06-2008, 08:21 AM
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Yesterday harvested lettuce, pepper, baby carrot, radish, a couple of strawberries, today I'm hoping to harvest First Early spuds, courgettes, broad beans, mange tout and [possibly one lot of the overwintered garlic!
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Old 15-06-2008, 08:27 AM
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Today I am making a Broad Bean dip to take to a BBQ.
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Old 15-06-2008, 09:10 AM
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yesterday I brought home salad leaves, a cucumber and my very first mange tout!
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Old 15-06-2008, 10:25 AM
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Yesterday, a strawberry! (First year for new plants) Some Anya spuds - enough for 2 meals for 2 and the last from the big tub that took 3 seed potatoes.
Today I will be picking a few mangetout and broad beans to go with our dinner. Might go get a handful of the black tuscany kale that's doing so well it's shoving the top off the pigeon protecting mesh.
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Old 15-06-2008, 10:49 AM
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Yesterday I managed to harvest a handfull of strawberries selflessly leaving some for visitors on Friday evening One titchy carrot and a few Rosabelle potatoes that fell foul of the bleddy moles and over enthusiastic earthing up

Wellie, is it just that, soak strawberries in calvados or is it a bit more complicated? If it is the latter please can I have the recipe - sounds yummy.
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Old 15-06-2008, 11:10 AM
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today i harvested a tea bag out of my tin ...... damn i wish i had something to eat
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Old 15-06-2008, 01:26 PM
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It's so nice to be getting a bit more than chard and cabbages now. Yesterday, I harvested radishes, little gem lettuce, broad beans (first of the year - hurrah!), strawberries, and a single backcurrant (which wasn't quite a ripe as I thought it was, and was a bit sharp).
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Old 15-06-2008, 01:50 PM
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Broad Beans
Mange Tout
Lettuce
Pak Choi
Spinach
Baby Carrots
Strawberries

Yum ; )
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Old 15-06-2008, 02:57 PM
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Broad beans, spring onions, the first baby carrots (thrilled there was something beneath all that green) and rocket. Strawberries a few days ago Mmmmm yummy.

Still contemplating the rhubarb with pink edged leaves
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Old 15-06-2008, 04:15 PM
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Today I picked a few winter onions, couple of cabbages (they were all looking a little squashed), broad beans, lettuce (for a neighbour), a few strands of rocket and thyme. Yesterday I had a couple of strawberries.
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Old 15-06-2008, 04:42 PM
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Harvested the first of the overwintering garlic today, the first batch (cloves from the GC) had fallen over and gone brown, but the second batch (grown from cloves we saved from last years harvest) is still growing away nicely! Got a couple of monster cloves (3" across), but the rest of the 48 were all of usable size, most being about 1 1/2" across!

Also harvested the first few First Early spuds, just enough for tea, plus 2 courgettes, a sprig of mint (for the spuds) some mange tout, a lovely iceberg lettuce and a few baby carrots, all for tea tonight!
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Old 15-06-2008, 05:13 PM
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yesterday - broad beans and spring onions and we used them to have HFW's posh beans on toast ....oh so yumcious - Snowdrop had a pint of ale with his, I opened a bottle of Rioja .....
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Old 15-06-2008, 06:02 PM
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Today I harvested a lettuce, parsley, mint, basil and two pounds of sweet red cherries!
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Old 15-06-2008, 06:10 PM
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Just my first sweet pepper today! And it was delicious too
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Old 15-06-2008, 06:16 PM
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Sage leaves!!!!!
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Old 15-06-2008, 06:20 PM
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some salad leaves, mint, chives (and a few chive flowers) nasturtium baby leaves and flowers, for a salad.

+ 3 strawberries and 4 blackcurrants..! (straight into my mouth....)
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Old 15-06-2008, 06:22 PM
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yesterday: baby rooster potatoes and mini-white cucumber
today: broccoli and mange tout
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Old 15-06-2008, 07:06 PM
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and tons of sweetpeas
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Old 15-06-2008, 07:36 PM
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herbs, salad and spring onions.
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Old 15-06-2008, 08:42 PM
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Yesterday we also harvested broadies for HFW's posh beans on toast and it was indeed yummy! Today I picked peas, romanesco natalino brocolli (weird green spirally things!), mint and dug up some red duke of york spuds to go with the leek and cheddar sausages I got from the Good Food bit of Gardeners World at the NEC today. Yummmmmm!

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Old 15-06-2008, 08:56 PM
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