Kitchen Garden Forum

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

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.

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

Beryl.

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.

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

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

Regards, Gerry.

Cut the grass today, is that a summer crop?

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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!

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