What are you actually harvesting?

[Helsbells]

I just harvested more than a bucketful of beetroot. Anyone living in or near Reading want some beetroot?

[Wombat]

Well, at the moment we are harvesting basil, Beans, carrots, onions, zuchinni, squash, corn, tomatoes, cucumber, capsicum, silver beet and various other greens. Their may be harvestable potatoes but I am waiting until the haulms die down.

Nev

[possum]

Well peas and beans have been and gone, as have the apricots, now onto lettuces, raddishes, garlic, herbs and turnip (aka swede) - surely that cant be right harvesting swede in the middle of summer?

[mrmushypeas]

Lettuces and radishes. The celery hasn't done that well yet. Expecting beans, corn, tomatoes in the next month or so.

[MsWildFlower]

We're harvesting strawberries, zuchinni, last of the peas, beans and some potatoes. My tomato plants have only just started to flower in the last week (planted out in September).

I had planned to have radishes and beetroot planted every two weeks to harvest but I got out of the swing of it when I mulched the garden with peastraw to try and get some control of the weeds and then had nowhere to plant them My lettuce and silverbeet all bolted last week

[Jandra]

Now I KNOW that I wouldn't really be a good idea, but hearing what lovely veg is being harvested now at the other side of the globe, I can't help but imagine myself living one half of the year there and one half of the year back here. And digging in winter being magically done on one plot while I am blissfully harvesting at the other plot... Dream on...

Jandra

[Millymollymandy]

Yeah, dream on!

[Chickenlady]

Stop showing off, Antipodeans! We have precisely nothing in the garden at the moment to harvest. Even the chickens have stopped laying. Oh, roll on spring!

Think I will go and sprout some seeds on the window sill...

[possum]

Stop showing off, Antipodeans!

so i guess you don't want to know that it has been close to 30C most days for the past few weeks, with glorious sunshine and clear blue skies
Sorry, I should explain - sun = yellow thing in the sky occassionally seen in the UK, and no I don't mean the London smog either.

(yes I can mock, I only just left there just over a year ago, so I know what it is like)

[Wombat]

Stop showing off, Antipodeans! We have precisely nothing in the garden at the moment to harvest. Even the chickens have stopped laying. Oh, roll on spring!

Think I will go and sprout some seeds on the window sill...

[hedgewizard]

From the tunnel:
* Land cress
* Rocket
* Mizuna
* Radish
* Celeriac
* Parsley
* Lettuce
From the plot:
* Leeks
* Cabbage
* Kale
* Parsnips

There's never nothing to eat!

[ina]

Can somebody tell me why I can never grow the things that are supposedly EASY to grow - like leek, and kohlrabi, carrots and beetroot etc? I'd love to have leek in winter - and beetroot, and carrots - all that stuff that I shouldn't have to buy at all... Even my garlic didn't grow last year.

I did manage onions and Jerusalem artichokes. And some celery - although they are roughly a quarter of the size they should be. At least I had some quite passable JA soup for lunch today, with all the veg from my garden.

[Annpan]

Can somebody tell me why I can never grow the things that are supposedly EASY to grow....

It's called 'Sods Law' ina

It's the same reason that I have some very healthy winter cabbages - which I don't really like - and no beetroot - which I love

[ina]

Glad I'm not the only one! Yes, I do have some curly kale, too - the kind I like least...

[hedgewizard]

Learn to like cloches, that's what I say! Have you considered mini tunnels for your beds?