This mixed weather of 🌧 rain and sunshine 🌞 seems to just be the ticket for the flowers 💐 and vegetables at the moment.
I seem to be just growing basic everyday vegetables this year.
It's good to go out to the veg plot and dig and pick your homegrown and chemical free vegetables.
The taste and freshness of freshly picked vegetables is exquisite and you can't buy that freshness in the supermarkets.
I would imagine you could buy freshly picked vegetables at a farmers market.
What are you harvesting at the moment?
Onions, broad beans planted last year, lettuce, strawberries, potatoes should be ready soon. It's a good time of year.
ReplyDeleteIt's a great time of year Marlene. I love home grown and chemical free and fresh fruit and vegetables.
ReplyDeleteJust rocket. Still surviving even in 32o heat. Tomatoes have formed and are growing. Almost time
ReplyDeleteJust radishes and strawberries at the moment... and one lonely, solitary unripe cherry, which will probably never ripen now. I should have left it for the birds!
ReplyDelete32 degrees is too hot to garden in Linda. Tomatoes, peepers and sweet potatoes love heat. I only planted my tomatoes outside a couple of weeks a go. I'm hoping they don't get blight. I love freshly picked tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteWe picked our strawberries the other day JayCee. It's been a great growing year.
ReplyDeleteYou don't get the same taste, and you also don't experience that smug satisfaction when you buy from the supermarkets :)
ReplyDeleteI haven't anything to harvest just yet, Dave.
They are weeks old in the supermarkets Jules. All the sugars have turned to starches. We tasted bananas in Tenerife. They were so sweet. Our bought bananas are like raw parsnips. I might plant some potatoes in bags in September for Christmas. I have grown them before in September but they are not always ready on Christmas day.😀
ReplyDeleteFresh from the garden is definitely the best.
ReplyDeleteNot harvesting at the moment. We are in winter.
I’ve not planted any winter veggies as yet. The weather was so bipolar that anything I planted would of bolted
I might plant something in the next week or so. The weather has settled into some sort of normalcy
You can not buy freshness in the supermarkets Angela. I recently planted winter vegetables like Brussel sprouts, leeks and red cabbage. I will sow Autumn King carrots, kale and spring cabbage.
DeleteWe are harvesting nothing at all, having just got it all in, but I meant to tell you, we did some potatoes with rosemary and salt in the air fryer, and they were very good. Thanks for the tip!
ReplyDeleteHi Debby. New potatoes in the air fryer are wonderful. Likewise lerks in butter in a bowl in the microwave are also very nice.
Deletemainly snap peas, courgette and asparagus, still using up last years butternut squash,plenty of tomatoes and peppers from last year (dried slightly then frozen) this last week,plenty of new potates ready.My Tomatoes are hens egg size and apricots now deep orange ,but not quite ready. I have not managed to do as much this year, due to the sudden death of my husband, but we shant starve .
ReplyDeleteKathy in Wales
You always inspire us all Kathy. Sorry to read about your husband's passing. I hope Rachel starts blogging again soon. I miss her posts. She's probably busy with her studying. Thanks Kathy.
ReplyDeleteI am harvesting the love and kindness of other humans and I am also harvesting grass by mowing it. Trouble is, you cannot eat grass unless you are a sheep... or a cow... or a goat... or a hippo.... or a horse... I could go on but I won't.
ReplyDeleteI dug my lawn up this year and extended my veg plot this year YP. My petrol lawnmower takes it easy these days.
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