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At the moment; French beans, peas, mange tout peas, broad beans, carrots, summer cabbage*, broccoli, cauliflower, courgettes, new potatoes.
Salads; lettuces, salad potatoes, salad carrots and tomatoes.
Fruit; strawberries, gooseberries and rhubarb.

Everything is coming along nicely now including the grass unfortunately, which I seem to be mowing with increasing regularity.
Not complaining though, it will soon enough be winter again.

I'm having a go at making sauerkraut with excess cabbages, not sure if it will be edible or an addition to the compost bin, plus never having tries sauerkraut before, I don't even know if I like it. :iconbiggrin:
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First strawberries - from outside, not even a polytunnel :cheers:

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Spring onions, radishes, lettuces of all sorts, coriander, parsley, mint, lemon balm, sage, rosemary, bay, rhubarb, a few strawberries, basil, chives, French tarragon - roll on the runners, tomatoes and courgettes - everything is growing at such a rate, particularly the grass and weeds!

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Odsox wrote:At the moment; French beans, peas, mange tout peas, broad beans, carrots, summer cabbage*, broccoli, cauliflower, courgettes, new potatoes.
Salads; lettuces, salad potatoes, salad carrots and tomatoes.
Fruit; strawberries, gooseberries and rhubarb.

Everything is coming along nicely now including the grass unfortunately, which I seem to be mowing with increasing regularity.
Not complaining though, it will soon enough be winter again.

I'm having a go at making sauerkraut with excess cabbages, not sure if it will be edible or an addition to the compost bin, plus never having tries sauerkraut before, I don't even know if I like it. :iconbiggrin:
Hey,...if you don't like the 'kraut, don't necessarily chuck it---I have a lovely cake recipe that uses sauerkraut. Yes, really!
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Funnily enough, when I Googled "sauerkraut" to see how to make it I found quite a few weird recipes, like sauerkraut cookies and sauerkraut fudge.
I suppose sauerkraut cake is not a lot different to courgette cake and carrot cake, so I may well be asking you for the recipe in a week or two.
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I will supply it happily anytime!
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today I picked my first huge bowl of salad leaves,radish,spinach and herbs,and a few tiny potatoes because I couldn't wait to taste them !
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me to big bowl fresh salard for dinner ,
and still so much spinage even made spinage bread today yummy it is to
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Not a lot, am on third attempt with beans and sweetcorn, if it wasnt all the heavy rain that got to them it was the snails and slugs, a whole tray of dahlia destroyed overnight, I think word is out I am running a snail and slug b&b!!!

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Poochy Pie wrote:Not a lot, am on third attempt with beans and sweetcorn, if it wasnt all the heavy rain that got to them it was the snails and slugs, a whole tray of dahlia destroyed overnight, I think word is out I am running a snail and slug b&b!!!
:hugish: Same here. My poor courgette plants were looking so healthy, then they were just skeletons. Same with my peas. It's been a perfect year for slugs.

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At least someone is enjoying this rather cold damp weather!!! I saw in a newspaper yesterday that we are likely to have similar weather for the next 3 months, may have to rethink my whole veg patch. I can just tell that all the seedlings both veg and flowers are crying out for some sunshine (including myself!)

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Ugh! Well, fingers crossed they're wrong. I'm just concentrating on filling the greenhouse. It may just be a cheap thing that'll only last this season, but so glad I bought it. My veg patch is a complete disaster area.

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first of my wild strawberries goose berries more salard more spinage
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chickenchargrill wrote:I'm just concentrating on filling the greenhouse. It may just be a cheap thing that'll only last this season, but so glad I bought it. My veg patch is a complete disaster area.
I really do sympathise.
You will definitely find your greenhouse is a life saver, any protection you can provide is a boon.
I bought a polytunnel 5 years ago after enduring a couple of dismal summers and found it sooo useful (which surprised me) that I got another one a couple of years later. Now I grow just about all my vegetables in there, all year round, and when I go in either one at the moment it's like walking into another world.
This year I lashed out and bought a course of nematodes to treat the slugs and that worked well too, it hasn't killed them all but it has severely reduced their numbers and of course it's a slow process for them to repopulate a polytunnel as they can only get in through the door.

At the moment I'm harvesting a little gem lettuce every day, beets, turnips, spring onions, carrots, courgettes, peas, broad beans, broccoli, new potatoes and soon my runner beans will start. I doubt if I could have grown any of those outside this year, especially the peas and beans, with all the gale force winds and damaging downpours we've had for the last three months.
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Lettuces, new potatoes, zuchinni, and this morning I picked a five gallon bucket of green beans.
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