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Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 2:08 pm
by Green Aura
We're still getting blackberries, but that's about it. Having spent most of this year getting the infrastructure in place I'm hopeful that next year we might get to grow something :lol:

Much more hopeful than in the last few years when I thought we'd have to call it a day. Some of us are just slower to solve problems than others :roll:

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 4:11 pm
by Odsox
Pretty much the same as last time, cabbages, broccoli, carrots, white beet, mooli radish, leeks, tomatoes and still picking autumn raspberries.
Re your PSB Flo, I grew PSB every year since Adam was a lad up until 2 years ago. For the last 5 years or so my PSB and Kale were smothered with mealy bugs making it totally inedible. So decided to grow ordinary broccoli instead which they don't seem to like. This year of course, no caterpillars and no sign of mealy bugs on anything either, so I could have grown PSB. :roll:
I do have 3 new 9 star perennial plants for later in the spring.

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:04 pm
by Green Aura
I've adopted my Dad's view that PSB takes too long and next year we'll be growing broccoli raab which takes a few weeks instead of nearly a year. Not quite the same but very pleasant.

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:48 pm
by Flo
Ah the mealy bugs were eating the lupins down here.

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Sat May 01, 2021 8:31 pm
by ina
Perennial cauliflower! I had two plants last year, one died - simply disappeared - the other one is looking very healthy with several small heads coming along nicely. Will cut the first tomorrow for Sunday dinner. :)

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 5:32 pm
by Green Aura
I've never heard of perennial cauliflower, ina! I've just Googled it and found out it's what I thought was perennial broccoli - Nine Star broccoli.
You live and learn. :lol:

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Mon May 03, 2021 4:06 am
by ina
Sorry - yes, I remember hearing that name for it as well. It does look a bit like a cross between the two. I always tend to overcook it, though... :( It just takes minutes, if even that.

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Mon May 03, 2021 6:16 am
by Green Aura
I grew it years ago in Manchester. It was very tasty as I recall. I must try again.

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Mon May 10, 2021 8:05 am
by Viper254
Eating plenty of chard at the moment. It overwintered and works pretty well as a sandwich wrap with the giant leaves!

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Mon May 10, 2021 5:16 pm
by TheLancsLass
Radishes, which seem to be really early, but very tasty!

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 4:54 pm
by Flo
Plums at the moment; cooking apples about to start and then there's the pears.

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2021 8:09 am
by ina
Brambles! And I've "harvested" the one and so far only runner bean... :) There are a few more on it now. No idea what went wrong earlier. Oh, and courgettes, of course...

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2021 11:07 am
by Green Aura
My courgettes have finished - not ver productive at all this year!

Still getting a few tomatoes out of the greenhouse but I think we'll harvest all the green ones and get shut this weekend. Chillies continue and have done rather well this year.

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2021 6:05 pm
by Flo
Green Aura wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 11:07 am My courgettes have finished - not ver productive at all this year!
Thought it was just me - had a short period where they were productive and then they gave up.

Re: What are you harvesting now?

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2021 6:09 pm
by ina
I'm not getting masses, either - but as usual I planted them rather late, so they were slow to start but now keep producing at a slow rate.