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Wow Red that lot should keep you busy for a while. I've made one lot of Champagne and just about to start on a load of cordial. I'm going to dry some of the elderflowers for medicinal use later in the year.

We have had lots of Kale, Lettuce,Peas and herbs here but nothing in bulk yet, but it's not done badly for a diddy space.

macro shots if you got it..

I harvested the first of my red currant from the poorly plant that I dragged out of Wilkinson two years ago got a few on the first year but this year there are tones


good job I previewed this for some odd reason the picture kept coming up and my "Bongo" van ... very odd

No problems, SE. But now you are REALLY going to have to tell us what a Bongo van is. Otherwise, we'll all make up a story

Mike

oooh show and tell ...




Mine is an unconverted version as I need the eight seats for childminding. So we just flatten all the seats for sleeping and take a camping stove for hot drinks an warming soup if we cant find any where to eat....

We use campsite and wild camp .. and the cat some too ... yay awesome.

Others are converted with cookers but I dont know how they sleep and I dont fancy food being cooked in my transport ...

Peas (just started on them tonight), Rocket, Mache, spinach, raddishes, strawberrys, watercress and lots of herbs. Goosegogs are nearly ready too

New potatoes are finally ready so last night's meal was nearly all home grown - if I include eggs.

Red and blackcurrants ripening fast and I'm not looking forward to the hours of crouching and picking. I haven't finished last year's frozen blackcurrants yet but plan to make some ice cream with them.

Edit: It's exactly 3 months since I planted the first early spuds so about 90 days instead of the 70-80 days stated.

Yes my black currants are ripening fast, but this year I intend to juice them as I drink a lot of fruit juice during the hotter months. Hopefully I'll be successful with the bottling, or I might end up with exploding jars of Ribena wine.

First early potatoes ... didn't someone mention they take 3 months ?

Nothing new in the harvesting department, but I do have quite a few melons swelling fast and the next lot of tomatoes are ripening, soon be time for another taste test ... these ones are Tommy Toe, supposedly Australia's tastiest tom.
We shall see .......

just have my first courgettes almost ready ( yellow ones seem to grow faster than the standard green ones) 'de nice' squashes are swelling nicely :-) next batch of strawberries were picked ( wild and cultivated )

i also have too much pak choi growing! lots of stir fried for a week here! starting to get flowers on my toms too. peas have almost survived the toddler

and plenty of broad beans and lettuce

I am sooooooooooooooooooo jealous. I am more than a month behind the UK seasons this year due to the amount of rain, and the flooding took away most of my carrots and parsnips. I have got eggs though, some salads, lots and lots of herbs which seem to have enjoyed the deluge (herby omlettes anyone?). Everything else in the garden is in dire need of an extended summer season this year so fingers crossed.

Tony I'm in France and I'm normally eating 2nd earlies planted in April, in June. I think it was the cold weather that set them back, plus the drought hasn't helped any (scabby as usual). Plus I've planted deep instead of earthing up so the soil was probably cooler.

theabsinthefairy wrote:I am sooooooooooooooooooo jealous. I am more than a month behind the UK seasons this year due to the amount of rain, and the flooding took away most of my carrots and parsnips. I have got eggs though, some salads, lots and lots of herbs which seem to have enjoyed the deluge (herby omlettes anyone?). Everything else in the garden is in dire need of an extended summer season this year so fingers crossed.

I thought the rain/flooding was down in Provence somewhere? I never got to see anything about it on the news.

The worst of the flooding was down in the Cote D'Azure, but we also had localised flooding due to a month's worth of rain falling in a day, on top of a month of continuous rain, lots of rivers burst their banks, the hydro electric power plant went into overdrive due to the reservoir bursting over the dam, it has been very very very wet here. Commercial farmers are struggling to get their hay dry enough to cut, the maize and the sunflowers are dead in the fields - which now look like they should be rice paddy fields. Total wash out here so far - and now a week of temperatures in the low 30s means that the ground that has drained is set as hard as concrete. I think it will hit the news in autumn when the price increases on meat and wheat hit home.

Oh dear and up this end of the country they are talking about the effects of drought on the poor hay harvest and having to buy in more from elsewhere - obviously not from your neck of the woods. I wouldn't have called it a drought situation quite yet but looking at the weather forecast it will be soon - it has been a pretty dry year as I measure the rainfall every month and our stream stopping flowing into the pond during May which is a first - normally that happens in June. I hope I have some water left in the lake (which leaks out of the overflow pipe) by the time the autumn/winter rains come.

Back on topic - few days of warm sunshine and I've got cherries and black and redcurrants all waiting to be picked. First few raspberries too although I'm having to hosepipe them as they are looking extremely sad - which means the raspberries don't make it indoors though.