Anyone harvesting summer crops still?

[Westi]

This mild weather is great. Still harvesting salads, fennel, chilli, peas etc which is kind of weird when doing it alongside leeks, celeraic, parsnips, kale and brussels - all outside unprotected with fleece. There are even some runners, they are a bit stringy but the dogs don't mind.

There has been the odd light frost but in pockets which did not include lottie or home luckily. Of couse I will be a bit late clearing and feeding these beds for overwintering.

Makes a mockery of seasonal recipes

Westi

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Westi, just finished the last of the outdoor tomatoes yesterday, but the ones in the greenhouse are still looking very good.
Also picked courgettes yesterday.

[Beryl]

Still using last of the tomatoes I picked last month, lettuce and beetroot. Mainly on to the winter stuff now.

Beryl.

[Johnboy]

A picking of peas today. These were on the top of the tall variety Radio that emanate from Clive's stock.
These were picked by a friend as I am a little bit incapacitated at present.
I only ventured outside, against doctors orders, to bathe in the wonderful sunshine that we had this morning. I had no idea that the peas were there. I finished picking the last of the tall peas about 6 weeks ago.
JB.

[Primrose]

Just picked a small handful of Autumn Bliss raspberries and a couple of ripe strawberries, but they really were the end of the road.

[Gerry]

The first daffodil was out two days ago here....January Gold.

Regards, Gerry.

[Geoff]

Cut the grass today, is that a summer crop?

[PLUMPUDDING]

I've had a very enjoyable gardening day, mowed the lawns, and ate 6 strawberries and four raspberries outside and found a couple of cape gooseberries ripe in the greenhouse. The weather is making up for last year's horrible winter (so far).

[Nature's Babe]

Hi Plumpudding, yes. Still picking outdoor grapes and outdoor cucumbers, some cape gooseberries, a few allgold raspberries and achocha and harvested the last squash fairly recently, nasturtiums, marigolds and borage are still floweering, and my pineapple sage has produced a beautiful red flower this late! It attracted a butterfly today, it flew off when disturbed, a red admiral I think.

[Compo]

Yes still picking, Sungold tomatoes in the unheated allotment greenhouse (and there are more green ones in there which I hope will turn gold before the end of the month...... I was thinking of putting some tin foil around the plant to aid ripening, just a wacky idea I had but who knows?

Also little gem lettuce under cloches till coming, and when I took down the sweet peas from their netting there was one still i flower

Lots of Tagetes in flower, and someone has apple blossom, half a dozen autumn raspberries, and yes the grass wants a final cut.

For me this is making any winter we have that much shorter. Enjoying it whilst I can!!

CoMpO

[Chantal]

I picked the last of the allotment tomatoes a week ago and am still picking from the unheated (and no door!) greenhouse in the garden.

Autumn raspberries are still going, but I am leaving them for the birds now.

[Primrose]

I've got some really nice endive and hot spicy salad leaves sown in September under cloches that I'm still picking.
Yesterday I picked half a dozen Autumn Bliss raspberries but they didn't have much flavour.

[alan refail]

I shall be picking some Dedo de Moça chillies today - on Christmas day? Can't believe it

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[oldherbaceous]

I've got on big, fat strawberry that i'm going to pick later, probably be as bitter as anything, but still quite surprising.

Now which one of the many dinner guest shall i present it to!

[Westi]

Went down to the greeenhouse to bring some spuds in for today and thought I'd prop up some canes that had blown down behind the greenhouse - and found a sweet pepper on a real bedrangled plant. Fairly small but going red - that's going in tomorrow's salad!

Westi